Bidspirit auction | German 1938 Munich Commemorative Stein

German 1938 Munich Commemorative Stein - Ober/Unter Menzing - A blue and white glazed stoneware stein with a lid believed to be pewter, dated 1938. The body bears the Munich city crest with eagle and crossed towers, flanked by inscriptions reading 'MÜNCHEN' and 'Ober Menzing Unter Menzing', referencing districts of Munich. The crest incorporates a swastika emblem typical of period municipal and organizational commemorative wares.Ober- and Unter-Menzing were incorporated as districts of Munich in the early twentieth century, having previously been independent villages on the city's western fringe. Commemorative steins of this type were typically produced for local clubs, veterans' associations, or municipal festivities in Nazi Germany, where civic heraldry was routinely combined with National Socialist state emblems following the regime's requirement that such symbols appear alongside traditional municipal arms. Such pieces reflect the everyday integration of party iconography into local civic and social life during the Third Reich.