The house probably had an original Trenton Pottery Sink when it was first built. The Trenton Pottery Company/Crane Company made 90% of American home's sinks back in 1926.
I did not know this at the time and I went to a place called Ohmega Salvage in Berkeley, Ca. I spoke about Ohmega in a previous entry. Here, I fell in love with an old pedestal sink with brand new Waterworks fixtures www.waterworks.com/
The price was a bit beyond our price range, but it was the exact measurement we needed given where the newly discovered, original tile was placed on our bathroom wall, so, I took the plunge and bought it. Now during this whole house restoration project, I have been researching everything until I am all googled out, but with this item, I did no research and basically knew nothing about the piece, other than it's age range, which suited the house (1920s-1930s) and that it was very pretty.
Apparently, the salvage company also didn't do their homework because they priced it at over $1000 less than what it's worth and what they sold it to me for. I love those kinds of oopses. If they ever figured it out, we were at least half way over the Bay bridge on our way home with our new sink.
Move over mauve vanity monstrosity and hello Trenton Pottery Sink!
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