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Barber Shop Quartet Beer Steins

Title

Barber Shop Quartet Beer Steins.

Format

Realia

Published

19uu Japan

Description

2 mugs : ceramic, paint 5 x 3.25 x 4.5 inches

Notes

2 ceramic beer steins with 4 male figures, in relief, depicting singing on the mug's exterior. A nude female figure reclines on the bottom, interior of the mug. "Barber Shop Quartet Beer Steins. It was the 1960’s in my childhood home and my parents had remodeled the basement into a fashionable recreation room with wood paneling, pool table, and bar. Two inconspicuous beer steins sat on a shelf behind the bar. They had four, happy barbershop quartet singers on the front. As a curious 8-9 year old child, I took the steins down from the shelf and looked inside. I was surprised to see that each had a rather large figurine of a nude lady. Month later, my father had some man over that I had never seen before and gave him a beer in one of these steins. I watched the man drink. When the nude figurine appeared, the man’s eyes bugged out and his mouth dropped! My father let out a hearty laugh. I “faked my response” stood there looking innocent and naïve. My father had no idea that I knew that about these mugs and I never told him.” – the donor, CS, describing the history of the objects.

Kinsey subjects

Novelty tableware. Covert novelties.