Everyone is familiar with the traditional brass spittoon. If you haven’t seen one in person you’ve seen it in some cowboy movie where they’re a saloon staple. If you’re a dedicated antique store shopper you may have even come across a rather plain yellow-ware spittoon and wondered if they were real. Fifty-eight years of haunting antique shops did not prepare me for the Michael Strawser spittoon auction.
Spittoons
A Cigar History Museum Exclusive
© Tony Hyman
Thanks to Michael G. Strawser and Strawser Auctions, Inc.,
for providing photographs and information for this exhibit.
Photos Uploaded without text: May 13, 2010
Michael G. Strawser
I knew Michael ran the nation’s leading majolica auction house but that little prepared me a catalog replete with decorated pottery spittoons that appear more suited to a bordello or grandma’s parlor than a Western watering hole.
I was blown away and quickly asked Michael if he would permit me to post these incredible pictures on the Museum website. The company promptly responded...more prompt than I have been in posting them. Yesterday I found these lovely pictures where I put them for safe keeping and immediately prepared them for posting.
Sit back and enjoy this collection. Don’t fall in love with them, as these are both rare and sold.
