Thought you all may get a kick out of my Indian scuttle:
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<---All thumbnails are clickableMy Indian Scuttle
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That's actually pretty awesome. Nice score!
Very Nice. Great pickup. I've been looking a little bit on Ebay for some of those old style scuttles. Let us know how you like it after using it for awhile. A little different than the modern day bowl lathering scuttles. They seem to be more of a face lathering scuttle to add soap or hot water to your brush as needed. I like that idea. I'll keep looking. Enjoy! 
Nice scuttle. Are there any makers/importation marks on the base? The symbolism is a little puzzling, a bare-breasted (well one of them is bare) Indian maiden (she's a maiden 'til proven guilty) in a war bonnet unfurling Old Glory. It's the kind of art that you'd find on old cigar boxes. Mild eroticism wrapped in romanticism and partriotism. And if the lady of the house were to be incensed by the pin-up gal you just turn her to the wall and display the flowers. Just love it to death. The perfect gentleman's accessory.
Very nice.
A beauty.
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I looked for markings and unfortunately there aren't any. It is definitely a puzzling piece. Flowers on one side and a half nude indian holding the American flag on the other.
I'm confused about the holes in the cup area. Wouldn't the soap/cream just run down the holes into the water below?
I guess this falls into the category of real shaving porn, huh? 
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Good question...I have no idea. I will probably have to mill soap to fill that area at which point the holes would be covered up.
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I guess this falls into the category of real shaving porn, huh?
There was something vaguely familiar about that image but I just couldn't recall what it reminded me of. Then late last night it came to me, Eugene Delacroix's painting "Liberty Leading the People". It features a bare-breasted woman brandishing the Tricolor flag and a musket with a fixed bayonet as she leads an armed mob over the the bodies of the tyrant's slain soldiers and fallen revolutionaries. I don't know if that was the inspiraton for it. Congratulations that's a great piece of pottery!
Awesome scuttle! Oh, the holes are there to allow water from the wet brush to run through. It's not like the modern scuttles and you'd need a hard soap. It's a fun novelty to use and were popular during the days of no hot running water.
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Awesome painting! Thanks for the kind post.
I may trim down some MWF to put in there to see how the scuttle works. Thanks!
I may trim down some MWF to put in there to see how the scuttle works. Thanks!
It's an old style scuttle, where a smallish soap puck is placed in the area with the holes. The brush is set in the end area to soak up hot water, then loaded on the puck of soap and face lathered. The holes allow the water to drain back into the scuttle so the soap doesn't get "squishy", and the area above the handle is a place to rest the loaded brush between pass latherings.
Exactly!
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That's awesome. I'm an exclusive face latherer so this would be the type of scuttle I would use. I've got a sample of Mike's Pine and Cedarwood that I'm going to try using this scuttle with.
That sure is a beauty!
Thanks for the feedback on the drainage holes. I figured it was something like that, but had no idea how well it would work. I guess it must work fine because I've seen a lot of these types on the Bay.
When eroticism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag and.... Oh, wait- wrong quote
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