Charles Monroe's Odd Fellows Shaving Mug with Gold FLT Links antique emboidery With its original (pretty mellow)

With its original (pretty mellow) gold paint

easy to hang straight on the wall from one good nail

within a few years the firm opened a small chain of retail tea and coffee stores in NYC and operated a national mail order business

but finding one's like this makes it hard

Whether or not one actually puts these to use

Charles Monroe's Odd Fellows Shaving Mug with Gold FLT Links antique emboidery With its original (pretty mellow)From what I understand, old shaving mugs like this would live on a shelf at a barber shop one for each regular, with his name on it, and painted imagery specific to him. The most valuable are those that bear elaborate hand painted iconography relating to the occupation of its owner, especially rarer ones: a baseball player, or a lawyer, or a coroner, say! This Odd Fellows shaving mug is not of that ilk, but I always love seeing the FLT links,