Shapleigh Hardware Enamel Cup

The item below acually from my personal collection. I purchased it at an auction in Jackson, Missouri. The cup is an enameled cup with fluer-du-le decoration encircling the rim top and bottom. The words "The World's Fair -- St. Louis -- 1904 -- Louisiana Purchase Exposition Cup" wrap around the top of the cup. On the one side of the cup is a map of the United States at the time of the fair with the Louisiana Purchase overlaying the map. The image in the center of the cup is of the Eads Bridge on the St. Louis riverfront. An American balk eagle is in the lower front holding arrows and an olive branch in each tallon, a ribbon in its beak with the words " E Pluribus Unum." The front images are flanked by a portrait of Napoleon on the left and Jefferson on the right. The map on the right side of cup is of what the United States looked like when the Louisiana Purchase took place in 1803. The bottom is stamped with the inscription: Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware Co. St. Louis, Mo." It was manufactured by the Elite Company in Austria. It is very rare to find one of these cups in excellent condition, because it chipped very easily as you can see in the photo below.




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