I found a real intresting discovery the past week.  I dont have the web
site with pictures up and running yet.  I found out that 90% of all
reading is done on the toilet.  Are there any references out there on
historical toilet reading???  What happened to talking about shipwrecks?
Move on, poopers are not the sh*t anymore.
 
On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, Richard Trammel wrote:
 
> Mary Ellin,
> Hey, this is Linda Derry in Alabama.
> Are you sure there are no chamber pots in your inventories?  Perhaps you
> should consider slang terms for this item.  Its been a long time since I've
> worked on 17th century sites, but stuck back in my long term memory is the
> idea that "looking glass" was a term used in inventories for chamber pot.
>  I don't have a reference to this, but  think  either Jim Deetz or Marley
> Brown told me this.  So this might be a lead for your to look into.  If
> Mary Beaudry is out there, I bet she would know. (that's why I put her name
> in the subject file, so she can correct me.  - Hi Mary )   Since mirrors
> were relatively expensive then, I would think that if you have a number of
> these listed, that they may indeed have been the less expensive "pots."
> But like I said, I may just be mis-remembering.
>     And everyone, if you do have something to say about this topic, please
> do continue.  I for one am benefiting from this thread.  I think we need to
> discuss how we recognize a feature as a "privy."  I'd love it if we could
> decide here what exactly are the distinquishing characteristics  (dispite
> the variability) of privies.
> thats my two cents worth.
> Linda Derry  [log in to unmask]