A Porcelain Shaving Mug Depicting a Tandem Bicycle, Possibly Belonging to Charles and Anna Kohlmeyer

Late 19th Century

with the name Charles Kohlmeyer in gilt lettering in a scroll, flanked by two cherubs and centered with a depiction of a man and a woman riding a tandem bicycle.
underside marked T&V Limoges France.
Height 3 1/2 inches.

U.S. Federal Census returns record a Charles Kohlmeyer (1869-1927) as a resident of Norwalk, Huron County, Ohio. Kohlmeyer worked as a butcher at a meat market and married Anna Bailey (1869-1930) in 1892. The couple had two children together, Florence and Holly. Another Charles Kohlmeyer is documented as a resident of Missouri around the same time, but his marriage unfortunately ended in divorce, at odds with the idyllic courtship pictured here.