I am assuming the one on top of the sink spins around and has room for a cup, toothbrushes with skinny handles and a soap dish. Dixie cups, and ergonomic toothbrush handles pretty much rendered these obsolete.

The tissue holder on the wall is probably obsolete too because it was probably made for the flat/wide tissue boxes that stopped being made in the 60s or so. The cover was probably removed and lost when they could no longer get a box to fit in there.

What an unusual sink. (Am I the only one who thinks it looks like a urinal?)

I grew up in a 1930s home with one of those spinning boxes above the sink: actually very handy! And I just love your pink sink!!

worthy, it does kinda look like a urinal, doesn't it? Because of the porcelain backsplash & the very round shape, I think I bet it's because the house was built during the war; supplies were so scarce a urinal may have been adapted to be a sink by drilling holes & adding faucets.

Not to take away from your sink, nuts4fords6!

The sink, with its integral porcelain faucet and front mounted knobs with round or rectangular sink was a form of Deco or Streamline Moderne design. These sinks were made in a variety of pastel colors through the 1950s anyway.

The spinning box is indeed a tooth brushes and glass and soap holder. I removed one from my bath about 4 years ago.
As for the sink....where I went to college, in one dorm ( built as WAAC housing during WW II) there was a row of sinks like that in every bathroom. We called them "spit sinks" as they were good for tooth brushing but not good at all for washing out your stockings.
Linda C

Hope you don't mind. But I posted a pic of your curious sink on the antiques thread for further info. palimpset nailed the style.

A urinal...made me laugh. More like a stand up bidet...for men. LOL.

I like your sink. It has character.

From the sharp eyes on the other forum: an Eljer from the 1950s, popular in St. Louis, among other places.

Also found there: Retro Renovation.

Franklin Brass makes one, I am not sure of the dimensions:
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a stand up bidet...for men.

If sinks had genders, here's one for the distaff side.