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A Cut Above: The Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter, Part I
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- Sale 1301
Live
| Cincinnati
Jan 30 | 10:00 AM EST
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1301
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
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Leah Vogelpohl
AVP, Specialist, American Furniture, Folk, and Decorative Arts
Ms. Vogelpohl joined the firm in 2013 as a cataloger in the American and European Furniture and Decorative Arts department. She became a department specialist in 2017, focusing on American decorative arts and silver. She received a BA from the College of Charleston and an MLITT in Art History from the University of Glasgow.
A Coal Deliveryman's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug
Estimate$600 – $800
A Coal Deliveryman's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug
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.
