Moustache cup

When Bart cup is called a cup for men inside - below the point where it is usually recognized when drinking the mouth - have a horizontal web, the beard and the wax that was used in the 19th century mustache modeling, before wetting by the drink or the softening should protect from hot steam. Bart cups were usually made ​​of porcelain, rare stone or silver.

Widespread they were in English, French, German and North American region about 1860 to 1920. Nowadays these parts are collector's items.

There are beard cups of very well-known porcelain manufacturer from Derby, Meissen, Limoges or Imari.

The invention of the beard cup is usually the English potter Harvey Adams attributed, who owned a porcelain factory and was very successful with it.

Evidence

• Bart cups collection Elmar Vanselow
• Moustache Cup - Mustache Cup at 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 beard cup ( mustache cup ) on the homepage of the Association of Small Collectors of Antique Silver ( English)
• Moustache cup. Europeana. Accessed on 21 August 2012.

• Drinking vessel