Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

[55th Massachusetts]

Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Dug in a downtown Charleston, S.C. Privy!
REB

 

[Potter Poker]

Re: Beautiful Chamber Pot! Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Plus Another One!

You have some seriously valuable pieces there!!! My wife has a lot of "flow blue", one of yours looks a lot like it. I would look into having someone (an expert) place a value on them

 

[Night Stalker]

Re: Beautiful Chamber Pot! Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Plus Another One!

Pretty sweet find! I see these in antique stores - 75-100 bucks normally.

 

[allen]

Re: Beautiful Chamber Pot! Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Plus Another One!

Those are some awesome examples of chamber pots !!

 

[jmaryt]

Re: Beautiful Chamber Pot!

That is sweet!!!!!!!!1

yesss!..i can detects some "stains" still in there!..(w.t.g!)

(h.h!)
j.t.

 

[jmaryt]

Re: Beautiful Chamber Pot! Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!"

Both good potties.....they make very pretty plant holders...

yesss!..the plants will grow very well!

(h.h!)
j.t.

 

[Mackaydon]

Re: Beautiful Chamber Pot! Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Plus Another One!

If they were mine, I wouldn't let any of those three go for less than $100 each; there're exceptional!
Don.....

 

[jimbob450]

Re: Beautiful Chamber Pot! Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Plus Another One!

Very nice save. Now there is something that is both fun
and functional. Jimbob

 

[55th Massachusetts]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

A Childs chamber pot. An American copy of a Staffordshire slipware chamber pot. It dates 1780, excavated in Charleston S.C.
Thanks for all of the GREAT comments!
REB

 

[HISPAN]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

nice Pot ..... congrats !

 

[NGE]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

last one looks like a 'Boston Bean Pot'..... ........NGE

 

[lafatlife]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Who would have ever thought that a toilet would be a collectors item!! Those are some really nice chamber pots!!

 

[55th Massachusetts]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Thanks guys.....the term "Necessary Pot" is the perfect name for the pieces of "fart art!"

These ceramics were a big part of day to day life for hundreds of years. And as a utilitarian piece, they were in use daily....and therefore broken and discarded without care or thought or deed.

Finding them close to being whole is a rare feat, as anyone who has ever dug a privy can tell you, they are found broken and unrecognizable by the dozens in every privy that I have ever dug.

REB

 

[NGE]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Weren't they also known as " Thunder Pots "?............NGE

 

[55th Massachusetts]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

"Thunder Pots".....CORRECT!!
REB

 

[Michiganne]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Beautiful pots! Very nice. Congrats.

Keep digging!

 

[NGE]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

I've heard of "thunder thighs" also, is that in the same category? What about " Thunder mugs "?.......NGE

 

[Yard Digger]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Man I wished that I'd had a pot that nice when I was a kid. Those galvanized tin feed buckets were cold! Still it was better than finding your way to the out house on a cold winter night.

Great finds! HH, Yard Digger

 

[spitfire55]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Wow!.....never seen anything like those before but, they are real eye catchers....

 

[Syrena Hunter]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Nice!

 

[EdleBrock]

Re: Plus A Pic of Another "Necessary Pot!", Another One! A Childs Chamber Pot 1780

Weren't they also known as " Thunder Pots "?............NGE

...and Honey Pot...

Although I'm not old enough to really know the pleasure, my grand parents still had a privy up until 1975. There was a chamber pot under every bed and grandpa would make the rounds in the morning.