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A Tractor Salesman\'s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to Wallace White
Estimate: $600-$800
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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.