His first purchase has "Pacific Railroad" stamped into the brass. Roberts said spittoons are "totally American" and trace back to the 1800s. "Chewing tobacco was very widely used," he said.

The Duke Homestead exhibit, “A Spitting Image: A History of Spittoons and Cuspidors,” has 35 spittoons on display. It has another 100 to 200 of the items in artifact rooms, Holcomb said. “Instead of ...

Almost 70 years earlier, when McDermott was a junior at Michigan State University on the GI Bill, he’d gotten the idea to find a trophy to commemorate the MSU-Indiana football game.

Gene McDermott, 92, of Macungie, holds the Old Brass Spittoon, a trophy that he founded in 1950 for the Michigan State-Indiana football game as he sits with daughter Brooke (center) his wife ...

All told, Kinner, 71, has more than 350 spittoons and chamber pots, more than the Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum in Durham, N.C., which has one of the few spittoon exhibits ...

All told, Kinner, 71, has more than 350 spittoons and chamber pots, more than the Duke Homestead State Historic Site and Tobacco Museum in Durham, N.C., which has one of the few spittoon exhibits ...