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A Cut Above: The Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter, Part I
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- Sale 1301
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| Cincinnati
Jan 30 | 10:00 AM EST
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1301
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
A Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Depicting a Railway Express Co. Truck
Estimate$800 – $1,200
A Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Depicting a Railway Express Co. Truck
bearing the name Redamus Mengozzi in gilt lettering against a magenta wrap, and depicting a gentleman driving a truck labeled Railway Express Co.
underside marked Royal China International.
Height 3 5/8 inches.
City Directories from Orange, New Jersey record a Redamus Mengozzi working as a hatter on Liberty Street from 1927 until 1930. He was born around 1904 in New Jersey to Italian immigrant Alphonsina "Fonzina" Mengozzi. By 1910, Fonzina married her second husband, Carmino Battista, himself a finisher in a hat factory, when Mengozzi was still a young boy. Mengozzi died in East Orange on January 9, 1940. Any connections between this Redamus Mengozzi and the Railway Express Company, established as the American Railway Express Agency in 1918 and renamed by 1929, remain unfounded.
Collector's label to underside.
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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.
