Yep; that's it--proves I should read ALL my mail before answering.
Apologies for the duplication.



At 11:10 AM 8/11/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Pat Reynolds wrote:
>
>>What I remember reading is ... that in the inventories of some early
>>settlement or settlements (?New England ?Plimouth Plantation), there
>>were lots of references to 'looking glasses', which was a slang term of
>>the time for chamber pots.
>
>Try James Deetz, In Small Things forgotten: The Archaeology of Early
>American Life, Anchor Books, Garden City, NY, 1977, page 10.
>
>"Numerous listings of 'looking glasses' in inventories of
>early-seventeenth-century Plymouth might lead the reader to believe there
>was a good supply of mirrors.  While this is possible, we learn from the
>Oxford English Dictionary that 'looking glass' was a common vernacular term
>for chamber pot during the first half of the seventeenth century."
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>LJ Cook
>