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Lot 145
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
$400 -
600
Price Realized
$381
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Lot Description
A WWI Colonel's Porcelain Shaving Mug
Early 20th Century
with the name Col. Kemper / Depot Brigade Camp Devens / 1917 below two crossed rifles.
underside marked T&V Limoges France.
Height 3 1/2 inches.
Colonel James Brown Kemper (1876-1942) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War and at Fort Devens in Massachusetts during World War I. The fort was established in 1917 as a training base and served as a separation center after the war.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey