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Lot 37
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
$1,397
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Lot Description
A Birdseed Salesman's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to Fred Shulze
bearing the name Fred Shulze in gilt lettering, and depicting a gentleman driving a horse-drawn wagon that reads Fred Shulze / Prepared Birdseed / 112 Whylie Ave. Pittsburgh.
underside unmarked.
Height 3 1/2 inches.
City Directories from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania record a Fred Schulze at 112 Wylie Avenue as early as 1877. The nature of his employment is variably listed into the twentieth century as "tinner," "laborer," and "hardware," with no mention of prepared birdseed.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey