Today I Found Out

The Victorian Moustache Cup (2016x54)

Air date: Mar 17, 2016

→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 →“’s a moustache cup”, you say? The moustache cup is a cup designed with a small lip on the inside intended to protect the drinker’s face fuzz from whatever beverage they happen to be drinking. Despite sounding like the kind of joke gift you’d get a moustachioed co-worker for secret Santa because you don’t know them that well, the moustache cup was something people took very seriously once upon a time and it’s noted that pretty much every self-respecting gentlemen in the mid-to-late Victorian England with a mouthbrow owned at least one. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/02/victorian-moustache-cup/ Sources: http://www.silvercollection.it/dictionarymustachecup.html http://www.torontoantiquesonking.com/2010/08/11/moustache-cups-a-brief-history/ http://www.mymethodisthistory.org.uk/page/harvey_adams https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=11&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CFQQFjAK&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.moustachecup.com%2Fhistory.html&ei=-MbkVICDGZHd7Qbp1YBI&usg=AFQjCNEqGzHNTnIqbTNvYUr-HVadcqCjCA http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/eTxHV3A7SU-ijfb7V5kRiQ http://mymoustachecup.com/history/4572410479 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pXDnxYpmYPoC&pg=PA29&dq=moustache+cup&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RunkVPCbNKfY7AaZs4HwDg&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=moustache%20cup&f=false http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/culture/men-and-their-moustaches/timeline http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Moustache_cup_Tea_museum.jpg