Charles Monroe's Odd Fellows Shaving Mug with Gold FLT Links early stone fruit pear I purchased both this one

I purchased both this one and the heart shaped love token paperweight I am listing next from a South Carolina based dealer at Brimfield who has been the course of a series of excellent things

with imperfections to the bone I presume original to the piece

Plus masked figures with sun-like clown collars on either end

expressed across every inch of this small sculpture

Charles Monroe's Odd Fellows Shaving Mug with Gold FLT Links early stone fruit pear I purchased both this oneFrom 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,