This mug features the great seal of Baltimore.  A farmer and a fisherman, who symbolize Lord Baltimore's two estates in the new world (Maryland and Avalon, Newfoundland), support the shield of arms.   

Saginaw is a city in Michigan and the county seat of Saginaw County.

This is a souvenir mug of the 7th Division, National Guard New York.

In 1889, the Cincinnati, Washington & Baltimore (CW & B) railroad from Belpre to Cincinnati, was renamed the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern (B&O SW).  By 1893, the B&O SW was absorbed by the Ohio & Mississippi railroad, which gave the B&O a connection to St. Louis.  By 1900, the B&O SW disappeared into the rest of the system.

James Kennedy was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. He was born in Lowellville, Ohio, in 1853, prepared for college at Poland Union Seminary, in Ohio, and graduated from Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, in 1876. Kennedy studied law and was admitted to the bar in March 1879.  He commenced to practice law in Youngstown, Ohio, where he also served as a member of the city council from April 1886 to November 1888. In 1894, he served as chairman of the Republican State convention at Steubenville, Ohio. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1911). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1910, to the Sixty-second Congress. Kennedy resumed the practice of his profession in Youngstown. He later became affiliated with the Democratic Party in 1916, and unsuccessfully ran as a Democratic candidate for election in 1926, to the Seventieth Congress. He died in Youngstown on November 9, 1928.

The New Rochelle Yacht Club was organized in 1885 on Echo Island "up the Sound" with a view of the water which seperates Long Island from New York.  According to the September 1891 Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, its fleet regularly held regattas with a list of entries that included the Atlantic, the Larchmont, the Seawanhaka, and New York.

Osakis, Minnesota was founded in 1857 situated on the southwest shores of Lake Osakis.. 

Celebrating Norwich's 250th anniversary as a city.  Norwich was founded in 1659. 

This cobalt demitasse stein has hand applied Sterling silver overlay. 

In 1889 Oscar Pierre Erard of Birmingham, England developed a method of electroplating silver on glass and porcelain. Although beautiful on the outside, its shortcoming was that the reverse side of the silver next to the glass tarnished.

In 1893, John H. Scharling from New Jersey, patented a method of electroplating that would not tarnish. By 1895, the Czechs, Italians, French and Austrians also produced high-end glassware with sterling deposit and overlay.

From 1895 to the late 1920s, silver overlay and silver deposit were regarded as exquisite gifts or accent pieces.  However, the Great Depression forced many of the glass companies to either go out of business or manufacture less expensive glassware.  Thus the application of sterling silver overlay virtually ended by the mid-1930s.

Merry Christmas 1931, C.W. Ferguson, Versailles, Indiana.  Shows view of the White House on the opposite side.

Mugs shows Mt. Vernon, home of Washington on one side and the Capital in Washington D.C.

Prael, Hegele & Co. were wholesale dealers in crockery, china, glassware, art metal, art pottery and other house furnishings.  The company was known as Charles Hegele & Co. from 1886 to 1900.  Rudolph F. Prael joined Hegele in 1886 as a bookkeeper and became president in 1900.  The company's name was then changed to Prael, Hegele & Co..  It was located on Thirteenth and Hoyt streets in Portland, Oregon.  Around 1920, the building where the company operated was converted into a transfer and storage facility. 

No information could be found on this mug. 

The only reference to a Charles Dawson I found was a Chas. Dawson, who operated a coal mine in Oak Hill, Illinois near Springfield.

This appears to be a souvenir mug but may have stood for something unknown.

The Nobles County Court House was built in 1877 at a cost of $1,124 on a block of land granted by the railroad in the heart of Worthington, Minnesota. In 1894, a new courthouse was built at a cost of $42,469. This structure was three-storys tall and made of red brick with a massive stone foundation featuring a tower and elaborate cornice work. The building was replaced during the  1970s with a new court house.

Lookout, Wisconsin was a small farming community located approximately 37 miles south of Eu Claire.

Hand painted with golfer.

Kensett was named after a Baltimore oyster packer named Thomas Kensett, who promised to build a church in town if it was named after him. He never fulfilled his promise.(www.kensettia.com)

Washington D.C. souvenir mug with monk drinking a bottle of wine.