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Originally Posted by jmen24
"...This is a Sitz basin used in giving a Sitz Bath...
Age of home that the sink is in currently...find the stamp just behind the drain on the underside of the basin, that will have some information that would help with the placement of the date..."
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It could be from an olde hospital supply firm.
A stamping or a date-stamp might help, but it's possible that the item isn't marked because it was imported.
I think RG has already "nailed it" anyway.
This basin is clearly designed around a minimal requirement for water—suggesting it might date from around the 1880s. Hot water would have to be manually carried—from say, a woodstove—to mix with cold water supplied from the faucet.
(If hot water
wasn't supplied, hopefully the cold water wasn't glacial runoff).
BTW: Isn't FLL showing a little too much interest in this item? 