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Lot 90
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
$600 -
800
Price Realized
$1,397
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Lot Description
A Tractor Salesman's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to Wallace White
G. H. Fralick, Wichita, Kansas, Early 20th Century
with Presented By W.W. White / Wichita, Kans in gilt lettering and depicting a steam tractor.
underside stamped G.H. Fralick Barber's Supplies Wichita, Kansas.
Height 4 inches.
Kansas State Census records from the early twentieth century document a W. W. White, originally born in Indiana around 1876, as a resident of Sedgwick County, Wichita, Kansas. Wallace W. White (1876-1947) married Sybil Edna Stewart on August 29, 1910, and U.S. Federal Census records indicate that White worked as a traveling salesman in both the automobile and tractor industries.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey