A Coal Deliveryman's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug
Sale 1301 - A Cut Above: The Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter, Part I
Jan 30, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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$600 -
800
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$540
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Lot Description
A Coal Deliveryman's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug
Early 20th Century
bearing the name James Desthers in gilt lettering, and depicting a gentleman driving a horse-drawn wagon.
underside marked T&V Limoges France.
Height 3 5/8 inches.
New York City Directories from the 1910s record a James Desthers working in the "trucking" industry on West 54th Street, possibly a later iteration of the horse-drawn delivery wagon shown here.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey
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