Three Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mugs Depicting Horse-Drawn Delivery Wagons
Late 19th/Early 20th Century
comprising a laundry wagon example for W.M. Sherman, marked T&V Limoges France; a Brooklyn Wholesale Confectionery example for Louis Senft; and a Borden's Dairy example for Frank A. Baer, marked Felda China / Germany.
Height of largest 3 3/4 inches.
Louis Senft is listed in Brooklyn, New York City Directories as a Confectioner on Graham Avenue by 1906. He was born circa 1877 in New York to German immigrants Henry and Lizzie Senft. The U..S. Federal Census of 1940 suggests that Senft still worked in the candy industry at that time.
The New York Condensed Milk Company was founded by inventor and entrepreneur Gail Borden in Wassaic, New York in 1861. The company changed its name to Borden Dairy in 1919 to honor its late founder, and the firm enjoyed remarkable growth during the 1920s, adding ice cream and cheese to its repertoire.