What is a mustache?
The Curder is a beverage container designed to protect mustache when the user drinks. These cups contain a small ledge or guard that leads along the perimeter of the cup along one edge. When the user brings a mustache to his mouth, his mustache is more like a ledge than a liquid. A small opening in this ledge allows the liquid to move from the cup to the mouth. The Mustache Cup can be the best known for modern readers from his appearance in the story of Ulysses, where the drinks of the character of Leopold Bloom from one of these cups.
Men with mustaches are subject to several problems of facial hair can be colored or wet. In Victorian times, hot drinks also melted styling cream or wax that men used to treat mustaches.
At the beginning of the 19th century, the Englishman Harvey Adams invented the first Cup of mustache to allow men to drink more and less and with less mess. Due to the popularity of the mustache during this period, the sale of the mustache grew rapidly. At the beginning of the 20th century wasThe use of these cups I get out of fashion along with a mustache.
During their flourishing, the mustache cups served as a symbol of the state among the rich. She often gave these cups to family women as a gift to fathers, spouses and other men. They were usually monogrammed or engraved by a family ridge. The basic models of the Cup Mustache were made of ceramics, while finer units came in silver and even gold. Many of them included a corresponding plate similar to those used with tea cups.
Today, antique buyers can collect mustaches, especially more decorative or rare models. Mustache Cup made of silver, or one that is very decorated can be sold at a quite high price depending on the condition. During the Victorian ether cups, they were made to suit the right hand users, so the left -hand models are exceptionally rare today.
Mustache Cup is oftenconfused with a shaving cup that reached the peak of popularity in about the same period of time. While the Mustache Cup had its characteristic shelf, the shaving cup may or may not be equipped with a shelf. Holing cups with a shelf may contain a number of drain holes, but they do not have the opening traditionally found on a mustache cup.