Beard cup
A beard cup is a cup for men that has a horizontal bar on the inside - below the point where the mouth is usually placed when drinking - that allows the beard and the wax, which was used to model mustache in the 19th century, to be wetted should protect by the drink or the softening by hot steam. Beard cups were mostly made from porcelain , more rarely from earthenware or silver.
They were widespread in the English, French, German and North American cultures around 1860 to 1920. Today, thanks to the resurgence of the beards, these parts are coveted collector's items.
There are beard cups from very well-known porcelain manufacturers from Derby , Meißen , Limoges or Imari .
The first known beard cup goes back to the English potter Harvey Adams, who made this invention in 1860. He owned a porcelain factory and had great success with his innovation, so that soon many potteries all over the world were making beard cups based on his model.
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- Elmar Vanselow beard cup collection
- Mustache Cup - Mustache Cup in The What is? Silver Dictionary of A Small Collection of Antique Silver and Objects of vertu (English)
- Three unusual silver cups with information about the mustache cup on the homepage of the Association of Small Collectors of Antique Silver (English)
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