Sale 1301 | A Cut Above: The Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter, Part I

A CUT ABOVE: THE BARBERSHOP COLLECTION OF JAMES CARPENTER, PART I JANUARY 30, 2024 CINCINNATI

A CUT ABOVE: THE BARBERSHOP COLLECTION OF JAMES CARPENTER, PART I HIGHLIGHTS

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im Carpenter was a prolific collector in a variety of categories but any visitor to his home and shop could see that he had a true passion for shaving mugs and barbershop collectibles. Over the course of his life, he assembled one of the great collections of

turn of the century occupational shaving mugs. Carpenter’s early foray into dealing antiques was supplemented by his career as a barber himself, or a ‘Tonsorial Artist’ as his business card stated.

He outfitted his shop in Montague, New Jersey with turn of the century items including an 1870s barber chair, barber bottles, magazine racks, advertisements, shaving mugs and their storage racks – to give his clients the feeling of stepping back in time. The barbershop eventually gave way to his antique business as Jim, along with his wife Miriam, turned his attention more fully to traveling, collecting, and dealing antiques.

While he ultimately decided to close the barbershop, his enthusiasm for this area of collecting did not diminish and many of the shaving mugs are deeply connected to his other interests. Jim was a US Army veteran, one of the founding members of the Montague Volunteer Fire Department, and member of a Masonic lodge and the Antique Automobile Club of America - just a few aspects of his life that are reflected in the mugs he collected. His particular fascination with antique cars is what led him to an auto parts business in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1968 where he would rediscover the work of George Ohr – the contribution to the art and antiques world for which Carpenter is most widely known. It certainly demonstrates his eye for quality in unexpected places, and for an object’s unique details. The collection offered here is the result of a lifetime of curious and multi-faceted collecting, interested in both the modern, and the ‘old fashioned.’

Freeman’s | Hindman is proud to offer at auction the Barbershop Collection of James Carpenter.

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2 A Railroad Detective’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to Joshua Gray Early 20th Century bearing the name J.B. Gray in gilt lettering, and depicting a Smith & Wesson revolver and a police baton. underside marked T&V Limoges France and NATL in gilt.

Height 3 5/8 inches.

Joshua B. Gray was born in 1864 in Easton, Pennsylvania to Nancy O’Daniel Gray. Census returns throughout the early twentieth century record his occupation as a railroad officer, including the U.S. Federal Census of 1920, wherein he is listed as the Railroad Police Chief in Phillipsburg, New Jersey. He had worked as a railroad detective since at least 1896, when the Allentown Morning Call reported on his testimony of September 8 that three men carried “concealed deadly weapons” on board a train. Gray died of pneumonia on March 27, 1928, and according to his obituary, he had worked for many years as the Chief of Police of the Central Railroad of New Jersey, headquartered in Phillipsburg, and also served as a member of the Philipsburg Town Council. $800-1,200

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7 A Photographic Transfer Porcelain Shaving Mug Depicting the Arion Theatre, New York Early 20th Century bearing the name J. Gootzeit in gilt lettering, and featuring a photographic transfer image of the Arion Theatre, Middle Village, in Queens, New York. underside marked Germany.

Height 3 3/4 inches.

The Arion Theatre was a 970-seat cinema, possibly the first in Queens to be wired for sound. It was opened by at least 1928 when contemporaneous newspaper advertisements promoted the theatre as “The House of Talkies.” Numerous members of the Gootzeit, variably spelled Gutzeit, clan are recorded as residents of Queens during the early twentieth century, including a Julius Gutzeit, although there are no immediately apparent connections to the Arion Theatre. $1,000-2,000

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18 A Fire Chief’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to Charles Higham Early 20th Century bearing the name Chief Charles Higham in gilt lettering, and depicting a horse-drawn fire engine. underside marked CFH/GDM. Height 3 3/4 inches. together with a postcard featuring a patriotic portrait of Chief Higham, dated 1907, along with a cellophane portrait pin, reading Chas. Higham, Chief Engineer, M.F.D., 1902.

Charles “Chick” Higham (circa 1867-1933), a native of England, immigrated with his family to the United States by 1870 and ultimately settled in Middletown, New York. In his adulthood, Higham worked as the proprietor of the Commercial House, a well-known hotel for nearly three decades and served for twenty-five years as Chief of the Volunteer Fire Department.

He was elected Fire Chief in 1897 and served in that capacity until his health began to decline in 1932. A well-respected member of the community, Higham was appointed to the Legislative Committee of the State Firemen’s Association in 1906 and served for many years as the President of the DeWitt Fife, Drum, and Bugle Corps, which in 1932 changed its name to the Charles Higham Fife, Drum, and Bugle Corps in his honor. $1,500-2,500

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29 A Paint Decorated Wood Barber Pole with Straight Razor Montgomery Village, New York, Circa 1930s Height 87 inches.

Lot is accompanied by copies of three photos of Ralph Broas’ barbershop, one circa 1910 and two circa 1940 showing this barber pole outside of the shop. Mr. Broas is listed in the 1910 census as a barber in Montgomery Village, New York and in 1940 as a barbershop proprietor. $2,000-$4,000

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35 A Football Coach’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to Amos Alonzo Stagg Circa 1912 featuring a full wrap of transfer images of fourteen football players and coach Amos Alonzo Stagg against a maroon background. identified players include Paul “Shorty” Des Jardiens, Marion L. Skinner, and John Bennett Canning, all of whom played for the University of Chicago Maroons during the 1912 season. center features a C with a football in it encircling the date 1912. underside marked VESEY with impressed Austria.

Height 3 5/8 inches.

Amos Alonzo Stagg (1862-1965) was perhaps the most influential figure in the history of collegiate athletics. Having coached and contributed to the development of multiple sports, his legacy remains primarily with football and basketball. The legendary Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne once said that “all football comes from Stagg.” He is enshrined in two Halls of Fame, and the NCAA Division III football championship is known as the Stagg Bowl.

Stagg’s football career began at Yale University, where he was selected to the first Football All-American team as a player in 1889. The following year, he began his football coaching career at Springfield College (1890-1891), where James Naismith, later famous as the inventor of basketball, played under him.

Stagg’s most significant contributions to football occurred during his forty-one-year tenure as head coach of the University of Chicago (1892-1932). Under his guidance, Chicago became known as a football powerhouse during the first quarter of the twentieth century, winning seven Big Ten championships (1899, 1905, 1907, 1908, 1913, 1922, and 1924). In addition to his football duties, he also coached track, baseball, and basketball and is also credited with helping to organize the Big Ten Conference. In 1912, the year identified on this mug, the Maroons finished second in the Western Conference with a 6-1 record and outscored all their opponents.

Provenance: Ex Collection Amos Alonzo Staggs (1862-1965), Stockton, California; Cowan’s Auctions, Shaving Mugs and Barber Shop Collectibles, Cincinnati, Ohio, 27 January 2007, Lot 116. $2,000-3,000

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40 An Unusual Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Depicting a One-Legged Man Late 19th/Early 20th Century bearing the name H.J. Henry in gilt lettering, and depicting a one-legged man holding a notice letter in front of a horse-drawn carriage. underside unmarked.

Height 3 1/2 inches. $600-800

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48 A Chauffer’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to Samuel Lustig 20th Century bearing the name Sam Lustig in gilt lettering, and depicting a chauffeur changing the tire on an open-top touring automobile. underside unmarked.

Height 3 3/4 inches.

Samuel Lustig was born in Austria in 1882 to Elias and Fannie Lustig. He immigrated with his family to the United States in 1886 and settled in the Bronx, New York. By 1905, Lustig had married, fathered a young daughter, and was working as a tailor in Brooklyn, a profession he continued to explore until at least 1915. The U.S. Federal Census of 1920 records several life-changing events: Lustig was by that time a widower and worked as a chauffeur back in the Bronx, where he lived with his mother and two children. $800-1,200

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63 A Reverse Painted and Foil Barber Shop Trade Sign 20th Century 9 1/2 x 47 5/8 inches. $700-900

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64 A Pair of Leaded Glass Barber Pole Globes Koken Barber’s Supply Company, St. Louis Missouri, Early 20th Century Height 10 3/4 x diameter 10 inches. $1,500-2,500

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71 A Steamboat Pilot’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Late 19th Century bearing the name in J.G. Woods gilt lettering, depicting a gentleman steering a boat wheel reading American Brotherhood Steam Boat Pilots Harbor N.Y. inscribed Faith is a Living Power below painted decoration. underside marked T&V Limoges France.

Height 3 5/8 inches.

The American Brotherhood of Steamboat Pilots, Harbor No. 1 was incorporated in New York on October 23, 1888, to promote welfare among pilots and establish higher standards of qualifications for licensure and proficiency among members. Dissatisfaction with preexisting steamboat inspection laws culminated in 1880 when a passenger steamer caught fire at a New York Harbor pier as a result of neglect of duty by the vessel’s captain and engineer. The name of the organization was formally changed in 1900 to the American Association of Masters, Mates, and Pilots, to include all officers aboard. $1,000-1,500

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72 A Ship Builder’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Late 19th/Early 20th Century bearing the name W.C. Lawson in gilt lettering against a cobalt wrap and depicting a man building a large ship in a harbor. underside marked Royal China International.

Height 3 5/8 inches. $2,000-3,000

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88 A Teacher’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug ‘Late 19th/Early 20th Century with the name Emiddio Naddeo in gilt lettering against a seafoam wrap, depicting a teacher lecturing to a classroom of students. gilt painted base reads Record From Ernesto Corral. underside marked T & V Limoges France.

Height 3 5/8 inches. $800-1,200

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108 A Baseball Player’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug, Possibly Identified to Mickey Heath Early 20th Century depicting a group of baseball players in front of a grandstand, with the name Home Run Heath in gilt lettering, in possible reference to Mickey Heath’s remarkable Minor League batting record. underside marked Limoges France.

Height 3 1/2 inches.

Minor Wilson “Mickey” Heath (1903-1986) began his baseball career playing for the Hollywood Stars, a California Minor League Team in the Pacific Coast League. Over his seventeen Minor League seasons, Heath hit 247 home runs and helped his team clinch the championship title during his final year with the Stars. In 1931, Heath joined the Cincinnati Reds for one season, in which he played first base. $1,500-2,500

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115 A Porcelain Shaving Mug Commemorating United States Air Service in World War I Early 20th Century depicting a pilot flying a biplane, with the name C.M. Berman and U’S’ Air Service 1918-1919 in gilt lettering against a fuschia wrap. underside marked J&C Bavaria.

Height 3 3/4 inches.

It’s likely that this mug was made for Brigadier General Morris Berman. Born in New York in 1891, Morris began his military career in 1912 and rose consistently through the ranks until his death in 1945. In 1918, he was completed courses at the School of Military Aeronautics at both the Georgia School of Technology and the University of Illinois, and studied at the Air Service School for Radio Operators at the University of Texas. In 1919, he joined the office of the Air Service Department and became Assistant Corps Area Air Officer the next year. He served in the U.S. Air Service, Air Corps and Strategic Air Forces in various capacities for the rest of his career. $2,000-3,000

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164 A Henry Clay Cigars & Cigarettes Reverse Painted Advertising Sign 20th Century 17 5/8 x 23 1/2 inches. $1,000-1,500

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166 A ‘Drink Moxie’ Embossed Tin Store Advertising Sign Circa 1930s marked M6-33 lower left and Made in America lower right.

29 7/8 x 54 1/8 inches. $8,000-10,000

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168 A Danish Tin Enamel Advertising Sign for ‘Alfa Nr. 56 Margarine’ Circa 1930s signed Johs., Theijl, Kobenhavn to lower right.

23 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches. $1,500-2,500

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Lot 175 A Boxer’s Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Belonging to Albert de Giovanni Late 19th/Early 20th Century bearing the name A de Giovanni in gilt lettering and depicting two boxers facing each other, one wearing an American flag sash and the other wearing an Italian flag sash. underside marked T&V Limoges France.

Height 3 1/2 inches.

Albert de Giovanni first fought on March 10, 1889, under the name “Kid Giovanni.” The Daily News from Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania records that on March 19, 1912, at a boxing show, a “Kid Giovanni” of Girardville, Pennsylvania, “stepped to the front of the stage, and challenged Lightfoot Bender to fight any number of rounds from $100 to $500 a side.” $2,000.00 - 3,000.00

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195 Peter Helck (American, 1893-1988) Sure of Their Ground, 1959 gouache on board signed, lower left and dated on verso 13 1/4 x 33 3/4 inches. together with a framed copy of the advertisement from the March 14, 1959 edition of The Saturday Evening Post.

13 x 20 1/4 inches. $5,000-7,000

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196 A Tin Lithograph Self Framed ‘Grape Nuts’ Sign Circa 1910 marked C2776 to lower left.

30 1/4 x 20 1/4 inches. $1,500-2,500

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210 An Unusual Porcelain Occupational Shaving Mug Depicting an Icehouse Early 20th Century bearing the name J. Flettner in gilt lettering against a blue wrap, and depicting a wooden icehouse. underside unmarked.

Height 3 7/8 inches. $500-700

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230 A Paint Decorated Wood Barber Pole Early 20th Century Height 49 inches. $1,000-2,000

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241 A Brass and Wood Vertical Steam Engine Model 1901 signed Made / By / (partially legible) and dated 1901 on base.

Height 14 1/2 x width 10 x depth 8 1/2 inches (with base). $1,000-$1,500

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240 A Case Scale Model Steam Tractor Early 20th Century Height 21 x length 41 x width 17 1/4 inches. $5,000-7,000

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