Spittoons


Spittoon (01)

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Villeroy&Boch, 1899 

 

 

Spittoon of the german-luxembourg society Villeroy & Boch, produced in 1899 in Mettlach and used in France in a hair cutter saloon up to the 1950 years as a floor cuspidor.

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Spittoon (02)

Kleiner Napf mit Ausguss

 

Spitton (8 cm hight) bought  in St. Bonnet in the french Hautes-Alpes. The heaven knows how to clean its inside!

 

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Spittoon (03)

Spuckpfanne ohne Abdeckung, um 1900 

Small ped pan-like table spitton beside of its big brother

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Spittoon (04)

Ansichtskarte, um 1920 

After the World War I the  "Rockefeller Foundation" helped the luxembourg gouvernment in its struggle against tuberculosis

 

Postal card, edited by the "Rockefeller Organisation" in 1920.

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Spittoon (05)

 

 

Small table-spitton without any mark of a producer (Total diameter  12 cm, diameter of the spitting aperture 4 cm).

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Spittoon (06)

Covered spittoon, about 1940 

Covered spitton produced by the belgian society NANALUXE  

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Spittoon (07)

Taschenspucknäpfe, um 1900 

 

Two metallic spittoon

a) the bigger model (10x6x2.5 cm) called "DISKRET" invented in 1901 by  Sigurd Adolphus KNOPF (1857-1940) 

b) the smaller one (10x4x2.5 cm) called "SPUTOLLA" was invented in 1929 by  Max Wedekind from Zurich.

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Spittoon (08)

 

 

The most widespread spittoon was designed by Peter DETTWEILER (1837-1904) in 1889.

 

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Spittoon (09)

French model

 

 

"Crachoir de poche de Paris LN", which was used in all french an belgium Sanatoria.

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Spittoon(10)

Sanatorium BLIGNY 

In Bligny (Seine et Oise) french gouvernment ruled three sanatoria. 

 

Here is an old postcard witch mentioned
""Ne crachez pas à terre"- do not spit on earth.

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Spittoon (11)

"crachoir de bistrot", France 1900 

 

 

Flet floor spitton (26x20x4 cm) coming from a french bistrot in Saint Quentin / Picardie.

 

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Spittoon (12)

English model

 

Spittoon done by Beatson Clark & Co.

 

A similar spitton is shown in the Science Museum in London (A650913).