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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;gregsglass, post: 464593, member: 78&quot;]Hi,</p><p>&nbsp; I always thought that the top 2 inches of the shaving mugs were blank so a man might have his name stenciled there. Since most shaving mugs were in the barber shop they could tell whose was whose. My grandfathers shaving mug was sterling silver made by the Gorham company. I always wondered how a poor back woods farmer had such a wonderful item. Found out years later that his social club gave it to him for a wedding present. it seems that one side of the family was very well off.</p><p>It explained why there was a few valuable items in the old farm house. When my grandparents got married in 1911 they bought a 200 year old house and 2 thousand acres for 300 dollars. The farm land was all bought and turned into a sizable housing development. Unfortunately the house was torn down in the 1960s. It was 327 years old.</p><p>greg[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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