Four Railroad Worker's Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mugs
comprising two examples identified Walter J. Keefer and C. F. Morzel depicting section gangs and workers, an example identified D. F. Douglass depicting two men on a handcar, and another example identified W. J. Montgomery depicting a station master holding a lantern on top of a train car.
each with maker's mark to underside.
together with one shaving brush.
Height of tallest 3 5/8 inches.
Morzel purportedly worked as a track foreman for the Erie Railroad in Port Jervis, New York. The Port Jervis Station was built in 1892 and for many years was the busiest passenger station on the railroad's Delaware Branch.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Property from the Collection of James Carpenter, Montague, New Jersey