ITEM DESCRIPTION:

Pecfect gift for the Hunter in your family. Great shaving mug used in Barber Shops in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Each customer had is private mug with his work or hobby and inscribed with his name. This example, marked Limoges France on the bottom, is inscribed Geo. C. Bowen in gold over a wonderful image of a retriever, quail in mouth, sitting in the grass behind a shotgun with a game bag and a fly rod with a creel and a stringer of trout, indicating that he was a sportsman or perhaps a hunting and fishing guide. The shaving mug measures 3 5/8 inches tall by 3 5/8 inches in diameter and is in near mint condition. 17329-81WPP