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Lot 293
Sale 1314 - American Furniture, Folk & Decorative Arts
Mar 15, 2024
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$500 -
700
Price Realized
$1,143
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Three Milkman's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mugs
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
comprising a mug identified T.J. Warner depicting a man filling milk bottles and two mugs depicting milk delivery wagons, one identified A. Fischer and the other Wm. F. Doody of Hillside Ave. Milk and Dairy.
Warner mug marked CFH/GDM to underside.
lot also includes a shaving brush.
Height of largest 4 inches.
U.S. City Directories for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the 1870s to 1890s list a William Doody as a driver, though never with an address associated with Hillside Avenue.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey




