Vintage English Shaving Mug,complete shaving mug with brush,sterile shave,personalized shaving buy mug,classic automobile mug,Burleigh Ironstone

Super cool shaving mug, featuring a class car,early 1900's, made by Daimler. It comes with the brush,manufactured by the Simpson brush company. It is made of pure badger hair. Both the mug and brush have makers marks. The mug is made by Burleigh, and is Iron Stone. Made in Staffordshire England. This is an awesome set! Burleigh company history listed at the bottom of this listing. Mug was made some time after 1930. Likely late 30's to early 1940's. Every collector should have this mug! Rare.

Mug measures approximately 4 inches tall and 6 1/2 long from handle to front end.

During the Victorian Era, it was common for a man to visit his barber for a “wet shave”. To perform a wet shave, the barber placed a round bar of soap into a mug, and then scrubbed that bar with a brush to produce a thick lather. Many barbers kept individualized shaving mugs for their customers, and such mugs became popular gifts for men.

Shaving Mugs Used in Barber Shops

Barber shops began to sell customers mugs with the owners' names on them in part because it was thought that men developed shaving rash from sharing the same soap. In reality, the rash was a result of unsterilized razors, not soap. When first offered by barber shops, the mugs were sold for $0.50-2.50 each and were kept in a mug rack in the shop. This service paid dividends to the barber since customers would generally return to the barber shop where their mugs were displayed. The mugs used in barber shops had many designs, but almost all of them included the owner's name and were hand painted. Prior to 1917, most shaving mug blanks were made in Germany or France. They were then shipped to the US for painting.

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Burleigh- Burleigh Pottery (also known as Burgess & Leigh) is the name of a pottery manufacturer in Middleport, Stoke-on-Trent. The business specialises in traditionally shaped and patterned domestic earthenware of high quality.

The pottery occupies nineteenth-century grade II* listed buildings known as the Middleport Pottery. The site, which is next to the Trent and Mersey Canal,[1] has a visitor centre and a factory shop as well as production facilities.

he business was established in 1851 at the Central Pottery in Burslem as Hulme and Booth. The pottery was taken over in 1862 by William Leigh and Frederick Rathbone Burgess, and traded from that date as Burgess & Leigh. The trademark "Burleigh", used from the 1930s, is a combination of the two names.

Burgess and Leigh moved to different works, first in 1868 to the Hill Pottery in Burslem and then in 1889 to the present factory at Middleport, regarded at the time of its construction as a model pottery. Its scale and linear organisation contrast with the constricted sites and haphazard layout of traditional potteries such as the Gladstone Pottery Museum.

In 1887 Davenport Pottery was acquired. It was of interest in part for its moulds. Burleigh retains an outstanding collection of historic moulds which are used today in the production of Burleighware.

Leigh and Burgess died in 1889 and 1895 respectively, and were succeeded by their sons, Edmund Leigh and Richard Burgess. On Richard's death in 1912, the business passed entirely into the ownership of the Leigh family. In 1919 it became private limited company, Burgess & Leigh Limited.

The years between the wars are often regarded as the company's "golden age", with a number of extremely talented designers and artists such as Harold Bennett, Charles Wilkes and Ernest Baily. Perhaps the best known was Charlotte Rhead, who worked here between 1926 and 1931, noted particularly for her work in tubelining. By 1939, the factory was employing over 500 people.

The business took great pains, from as early as 1897, to build up a thriving export network, concentrating primarily on the Empire (later Commonwealth) and American markets, but focussing later also on Europe.

After a run of financial difficulty, the company was sold in 1999 to the Dorling family, Rosemary and William Dorling, and traded as Burgess Dorling & Leigh. In 2010 it was acquired by Denby Holdings Ltd, the parent company of the Denby Pottery. buy