[Sca-cooks] steins and dolmans?

[otsisto]

A dolman, think a section of Stonehenge or a stone door frame or the white
things on the black.
http://heraldry.griffin-dor.org/groups/Emblazons/Standing_Stones.gif
The current graphics on their website has the laurel wreath looking black,
it's suppose to be green so here is someone elses graphics.

A stein/beer stein has a lid. And is suspected to go as far back as the
1400s, maybe even 1300s. Indication of existance is a law passed after the
plague which required containers to have a cover, but so far as I know there
are only steins from the 1500s found and are in museums. If ever I can read
German, I might find steins in the bildindex.
Stoneware is one material that they were made of. What you are thinking is a
mug.
This claims to be a 16th century reproduction.
http://www.kaiserbills.com/item141581.ctlg

This is from the 15th century, Rhineland
http://tinyurl.com/3mom9kz

This is called by the museum a tankard but it is a stein
http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collections/objects/category/2/2445/

De
-----Original Message-----
De said:
<<< The original device was returned because the laurel wreath was
upside-down and the heralds of that time said there was no such thing
as beer steins foaming proper, so the guys used dolmans instead of the
steins and up righted the wreath. >>>

So back to a more food oriented question.

What's a "dolman"? I assume that is different from a doberman. :-)

I always think of "steins" as heavy, glass beer mugs. Is that too
narrow a definition? Are they even period?

Thanks,
   Stefan