Featured An interesting cup and teapot, help me understand for whom?

Hi everyone,
At first I bought such a cup, and after a few months I found such a Bisto teapot
Please tell me why they are so strange and unusual? I tried to search on Google, and I thought, maybe it is a cup for men with a mustache, but then what is a teapot?

Thanks!

 

It’s an invalid feeding cup. Someone held it to the sick persons mouth. The half cover stopped the gruel or soup spilling on them. That’s why there’s a caduceus mark on the base, medical.

 

Ingenious ! For the infirm-feeding or enema,quite clever.

 

at first I thought it was for children, but it was probably really for invalid feeding. And the teapot too?

 

Both of them, yes. The teapot-like spout is probably the more common on invalid cups (at least in my experience).

 

Bisto was a trade mark owner and used by Bishop & Stonier of Hanley, Staffordshire.

 

Oh no, just not an enema
I go to Google to find vintage enemas

 

Bisto is also gravy powder.

 

It's not actually a teapot, it's just a larger invalid cup, AKA pap boat.
Similar:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/385695872843

Mustache cups don't have a spout:

 

Are you sure it is a moustache cup? I think it is more likely to be a shaving cup. The main cup for hot water and a place to park the brush, and the inner lip to hold the soap tablet Probably has drain holes in it..

 

I think a moustache cup on that last one. Shaving mugs were more involved:

 

I do consider what I pictured in my previous post to be a "mustache cup". It differs from the shaving mug below, which has the drain holes you mention. That said, I'm no expert on antique shaving paraphernalia.




This mustache cup and saucer set has an inner bit like the mug I posted. It would be woefully inadequate in holding a soap tablet. Note that in has a "hole" by the rim for the tea to reach the mouth, and has a cut out curve to accommodate the nose.