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Lot 23
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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$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$1,270
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Lot Description
A Dry Goods Store Proprietor's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to John E. Schuon
20th Century
bearing the name John E. Schuon in gilt lettering to base and depicting a photographic transfer image of a horse-drawn flour wagon that reads John E. Schuon to body.
underside unmarked.
Height 3 7/8 inches.
John Schuon was born around 1864 in Allentown, Pennsylvania to German immigrants Heman and Matilda Schuon. By 1900, Schuon is recorded as having married Clara Daniels and working as a merchant of flour, bread, and coal. Subsequent census returns and Allentown City Directories from the 1920s and 1930s record that Schuon was the owner of a flour, feed, and coal outfit on Hamilton Avenue.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey