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My thanks to the following people, whom, in some way, contributed materially to this project. Mike Benge
And of course Mike Wald, who laid the groundwork for all future HR research over twenty years ago, and who inspired me to take on this project as only he could. ~~~~~~~ |
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Photos by: Sharon Bruha, Marty Cameli, Mark Fiebrandt, Louis Foster, David Harr, Marc Lang, Gene Manusov, Bill Pasco, Walt Vogdes, The Author, The SCI Library archives, and other miscellaneous sources. ~~~~~~~ A very special thanks to seven of those listed above: To Louis Foster for sharing photos of his HR collection, especially his hand painted pieces; To Marty Cameli and Barry Toussaint both of whom shared photos of their great collections and each of these collections include pieces found nowhere else; To Les Paul for opening his home and his world famous character stein collection to me and my camera. Les' collection also contains some unique pieces found only in his cabinets; To Marc Lang who helped me acquire a number of difficult to find Freising/HR pieces that I would probably have missed without his assistance; To David Harr, without who's help this project would have withered on the vine, and probably never have seen the light of day. David and I were brought together at the Boston SCI Convention as both of us are convinced that capacity marks are a key to factory identification. David had worked with, and done research for Mike Wald, and was able to provide a special insight to the HR question. David also contributed numerous photos, loaned me an occasional stein to examine, and provided a number of publications having specifically to do with the Freising factory, making positive identification of certain Freising products possible, and finally he played devil's advocate by making me re-examine a number of my conclusions. Thank you David, I could not have done this without your help. And finally to Walt Vogdes for identifying what was most likely the firm, L.B.& C. (LBCM), as the L. Bauernfreund & Co. of Munich, pewter foundry, finishing shop and distributor. |
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This work is dedicated to all HR collectors; past, present and future. |
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John McGregor has been a stein collector for over twenty years. He has been active in both Stein Collectors International, his local chapter, Pacific Stein Sammler and most recently with the Beer Stein College as their Web Master. He served his local chapter as Vice-President and Chapter Representative to the SCI Board from 1991 to 1993, as President from 1994 to 1996, and as Editor of die Kunde the PSS quarterly news letter from 1995 to 1998. John has had more than forty articles published in PROSIT, the quarterly magazine of Stein Collectors International. He received the "Jack Lowenstein Editors Award" in 1993 and was honored with the title of "Master Steinologist" in 1995. John has also served as the Stein Collectors International Museum Director and Research Librarian from 1997 to 2002. John's collecting tastes are eclectic, which is another way of saying that he specializes in nothing, and everything, at the same time. ~~~~~~~ If you have any information, photos, catalogs, or other Freising/HR related material that you think should be included in a future update, please contact me at my e-mail address; altekruge@comcast.net I would particularly like to include additional, pre-HR Freising steins and other products. I know this is probably far reaching, but with your help perhaps we can illustrate a majority of Freising/HR varieties. John McGregor, ~~~~~~~ |
