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IMAGE IS ORNATE
FULLY DETAILED
THE RETICULATED FRAME IS A BRONZE METAL
NO FOUNDRY MARKS ON THE FRAME OR
COPPER SHEET
THE FRAMED WORK MEASURES ABOUT 16.5" BY 25"
THE SIDES ARE DECORATED WITH FLEUR DE LEISE AND SCALLOP CLAM SHELLS
THE ACCENT MATTE IS FELT FABRIC
ESTIMATED CIRCA 1890 - 1900

ALTHOUGH WE COULD NOT SUBSTANTIATE
IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT THIS ITEM WAS PURCHASED AT AN AUCTION
IN 1955 IN ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI
LIQUIDATING CERTAIN ITEMS OF THE DEPOSED
KING FAROUK OF EGYPT
ANY INFORMATION ON SUCH AUCTION WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED



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A tavern is a place of business where people gather to drink alcoholic beverages and, more than likely, also be served food. An Inn is a tavern which has a license to put up guests. The word derives from the Latin taberna and the Greek ταβ?ρνα/taverna, whose original meaning was a shed or workshop. The distinction of a tavern from an inn, bar or pub varies by location, in some places being identical and in others being distinguished by traditions or by legal license. In 16th century England, a tavern was distinguished from a public ale house by dint of being run as a private enterprise, where drinkers were "guests" rather than members of the public.

Americans drank heavily, for rum was cheap. In 1770 per capita consumption was 3.7 gallons of distilled spirits per year, rising to 5.2 gallons in 1830 or approximately eight one-ounce shots a day for every adult white man. That total does not include the beer or hard cider that colonists routinely drank in addition to rum, the most popular distilled beverage available in English America. Benjamin Franklin printed a "Drinker's Dictionary" in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1737, listing some 228 slang terms used for drunkenness in Philadelphia.

The sheer volume of hard liquor consumption fell off, but beer grew in popularity and men developed customs and traditions based on how to behave at the tavern. By 1900 the 26 million American men over age 18 patronized 215,000 licensed taverns and probably 50,000 unlicensed (illegal) ones, or one per hundred men. Twice the density could be found in working class neighborhoods. They served mostly beer; bottles were available but most drinkers went to the taverns. Probably half the American men avoided saloons, so the average consumption for actual patrons was about a half-gallon of beer per day, six days a week. The city of Boston (with about 200,000 adult men) counted 227,000 daily saloon customers.


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