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Lot 110
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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Estimate
$300 -
500
Price Realized
$445
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Two Cowboy's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mugs
Early 20th Century
comprising an example bearing the name C. C. Newberry in gilt lettering and marked Koken Barber's Supply Co. and an example identified Sport Fambrough, stamped Germany on underside.
Height 4 inches.
Ivy Holt "Sport" Fambrough was born on December 6, 1892, in Rusky County, Texas to Sterling Price and Della Mae Andrews Fambrough. He enlisted in the United States Army on October 9, 1917, and served during World War I for two years until his discharge on April 1, 1919. Fambrough married Willie Albertine Whittington Cordell, and the couple had one son, Don (1922-2011). According to U.S. Federal Census records, he operated a meat market and worked as a butcher in Longview, Gregg County, Texas. The nickname purportedly came from his son, both a football player and coach for the University of Kansas Jayhawks. Fambrough died on October 21, 1975.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey



