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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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Jan 30 | 10:00 AM EST
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Sale 1301
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A Photographic Transfer Porcelain Shaving Mug Depicting the Arion Theatre, New York
Estimate$1,000 – $2,000
A Photographic Transfer Porcelain Shaving Mug Depicting the Arion Theatre, New York
bearing the name J. Gootzeit in gilt lettering, and featuring a photographic transfer image of the Arion Theatre, Middle Village, in Queens, New York.
underside marked Germany.
Height 3 3/4 inches.
The Arion Theatre was a 970-seat cinema, possibly the first in Queens to be wired for sound. It was opened by at least 1928 when contemporaneous newspaper advertisements promoted the theatre as "The House of Talkies." Numerous members of the Gootzeit, variably spelled Gutzeit, clan are recorded as residents of Queens during the early twentieth century, including a Julius Gutzeit, although there are no immediately apparent connections to the Arion Theatre.
To request further details about this lot, please email katiebenedict@hindmanauctions.com
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.
