Q: My aunt was given a beer stein from an elderly couple of German descent. She wasn’t able to get any information about it. The stein is decorated with raised, painted flowers and blue trim. The mark on the bottom is a stein inside a triangle and the words “Gerz, West Germany, Handarbeit.” Can you give us any information about the maker and age of this stein?
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