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Q: This odd bathtub is in the house we recently Q: purchased. The house was built around 1900 and has had virtually no modifications. The bathtub is 42" x 30", and the well is 9" deeper than the rest of the tub. Have you ever seen one of these?
—Barb and Howard Wolcott, Rock Falls, Ill.
: That’s a new one on me! I searched in vain through old plumbing: catalogs, including Mott’s 1908 issue featuring everything from residential bath suites to four-sided/four-user sinks and hospital douche rooms. My first thought is that yours is a combination bathtub and footbath. Your bathroom may not be strictly original—the tile does not look like 1900—but it’s vintage.
