President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s personally-owned and -used cup. Large blue coffee cup measures 6″ in diameter, with an attractive blue country scene around the outside, with “For Auld Lang Syne,” printed around the inside blue-bordered edge. Accompanied by a detailed 1982 letter of provenance on White House letterhead, by Lillian Rogers Parks, who was a best selling author as well as housekeeper and seamstress at the White House for over 30 years, from President Hoover through President Eisenhower. Letter reads, in part: “The lovely flow-blue cup…was owned and used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt…My original sticker with the word ‘Roosevelt’ is on the cup bottom and written in my own hand. The Roosevelts brought this piece to the White House when they arrived on March 4, 1933. President Roosevelt occasionally used this large cup for soup or coffee. He gave it to my Mama, Maggie Rogers, First maid of the White House, at the time she left the Roosevelts service in 1939.” Also accompanied by a second handwritten letter, on a White House card, from Parks, stating that Roosevelt used this cup in the White House. A small chip to edge, a couple of small repaired hairline cracks inside, and expected light wear from use that does not detract, otherwise fine condition.
