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A Dry Goods Store Proprietor\'s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to John E. Schuon
Estimate: $800-$1,200
Sold
$1,000
Live Auction
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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.

Condition
Collector's label to underside.