Thread: Is this a shaving mug?

Originally Posted by simpleman

Short story... I currently live with my grandmother until my house is done(a couple more weeks thank goodness). My bathroom is broken so i had to use hers. Well i keep the door open because i just do. She walks by and notices im using a straight razor. She knew i shaved with them but she said she hadnt seen one in use for years. She notices my soap bowl is a bowl and not a mud and sayd to me that it would be easyer to make lather if my mug had a handle. I humor her and say yeah i guess. She told me to turn around and look up. So i did and saw a few mugs. She told me to take my pick I could have one. Most of them were the crappy christmas present deals and some were not even mugs. The silver one looks neat. YOu think its a shaving mug? If its not it may soon be. Would the soap mess with the silver?

simpleman,

You're darn tootin'. By all means, clean up that antique with some silver polish and make use of it in your shave den.

I used it tonight and it worked well. yeap, definitely a shave mug. :-)

This is too cool. Getting to use some family history is what I enjoy most about shaving with straight razors. Congrats on a great family mug. (not your face )

It's the right size for an old-fashioned shaving mug.

I've seen those with matching brushes that sat in the brush holder. With the brush they brought decent money. Without the brush -- a nice shaving mug to enjoy.

If you haven't polished that yet, think twice before you do, it's just silver-plate, and polishing it
a) won't last -- and -- b) removes silver.

im not going to polish it. I like it as it sits

It looks like pewter to me, very nice...It is most definitely a shaving mug...if it was silver, it'd be tarnished big time...(unless you cleaned it)