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Lot 185
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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$600 -
800
Price Realized
$699
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Lot Description
A Paint Enhanced Photographic Transfer Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Depicting a Tailor's Shop
20th Century
depicting the exterior of a storefront identified to A. Simon with green wrap.
underside marked D & Co.
Height 3 7/8 inches.
A "Want Ad" published in the Urbana Daily Courier on September 23, 1923, in Urbana, Illinois thusly references a tailor shop owned by an A. Simon: "100% Tailor. Cannot shine shoes, but he knows his stuff, and I don't mean maybe."
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey