Charles Monroe's Odd Fellows Shaving Mug with Gold FLT Links early stone fruit pear This pretty vintage Japanese orange

This pretty vintage Japanese orange lacquer stacking box could be used for serving snacks

and which I thought would also be handy to have in stock as I keep acquiring old marbles solitaire boards

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

standing beside what is surely his fantasyland creation

Charles Monroe's Odd Fellows Shaving Mug with Gold FLT Links early stone fruit pear This pretty vintage Japanese orangeFrom 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,