by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2019
Pot lid for Breidenbach’s cherry paste (toothpaste), for the teeth and gums. Breidenbach & Co describe themselves as Perfumers and Distillers of Wood Violet to Her Majesty the Queen. Their address is given as Bond St, London. The pot lid was excavated in two...
by Tom Licence | Jun 23, 2019
Large size, 1 shilling, Wood’s Areca Nut toothpaste pot lid. The smaller size, 6d (sixpence) is more common.
by Tom Licence | Nov 10, 2018
Ceramic white lid with black under-glaze transfer, for Blanchflower’s Yarmouth Bloater Paste, showing a herring trawler.
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Rectangular pot lid with under-glaze transfer-printing in black: ‘Tooth Powder/ Henry Francis Partridge/ L.D.S. R.C.S. F.S.S./ Surgeon Dentist/ South Kensington’. Henry Francis Partridge is listed from at least 1879. In 1888 he was involved in a court case...
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Borax pot lid (London and Birmingham) with blue advertising design, underside. Both top and bottom have the brand name on them.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Heavy ceramic pot lid for ‘Borax’ (London and Birmingham), with blue printed advertising design on both sides. Top side is shown.
by Tom Licence | Jul 10, 2016
Victorian lids for Burgess’s Anchovy Paste (note the Victorian crown). A large number of twentieth-century lids for this product were also found, but all had broken up on account of freeze-thaw action, signifying a poorer quality of pottery. This is likely to...
by Tom Licence | Apr 24, 2016
Transfer-printed pot lid, showing a single angry bear: ‘Genuine Russian Bear’s Grease – For Beautifying and Nourishing the Hair’ Exact provenance uncertain – north of England, 1880s site
by Tom Licence | Apr 24, 2016
Pot lid with printed design of bears against a mountainous backdrop: ‘Genuine Russian Bears’ Grease – for Increasing the Growth of Hair’. From an 1880s tip in Yorkshire.
by Tom Licence | Apr 24, 2016
Transfer-printed pot lid for Fortnum & Mason’s caviar, from an early 1920s dump in Bradford.
by Tom Licence | Apr 24, 2016
Large (4 shillings) size pot lid for James Atkinson’s Bear’s Grease – a pomade for the hair. Dug from a dump of c. 1885 in Rugby, Warwickshire. Genuine bear’s grease was imported from Russia.
by Tom Licence | Apr 24, 2016
Pot Lid for Woods ‘Dandruff Pomade, to be rubbed into roots of hair’. Price 1 shilling. Transfer-printed black and white design with text in multiple fonts. Found in an ash dump of the 1870s in Leicestershire.
by Tom Licence | Apr 14, 2016
Pot lid for Keddie’s Real Gorgona Anchovy Paste, for Toasts, Biscuits, etc. From Kirton Rectory. 1900s.
by Tom Licence | Apr 6, 2016
Bottom part of a pot lid for Wood’s Areca Nut Toothpaste. Found amid ash and household refuse of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Apr 6, 2016
Pot lid, printed with the words ‘Potted Ham & [Chicken], An Excellent R[elish for] Breakfast, Lun[cheon] etc’. Found amid ash and domestic waste of the 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Mar 30, 2016
Printed pot lid for Sydney Count’s Otto of Rose Cold Cream (‘Chemist, Lynn’). Count took over William Wigg’s HIgh Street chemist shop in Lynn c. 1880 and commissioned his own lids for this product, although he is not known to have purchased...
by Tom Licence | Mar 30, 2016
Pot lid for cold cream with a generic Gothic design. These lids were cheaper for the vendor to order than lids with a name, address and brand printed on them.
by Tom Licence | Mar 24, 2016
Fragment of a pot lid for cold cream with a generic design. It was cheaper for vendors to order generic lids of this type than to pay to have their own names and brands printed on the pot lid.
by Tom Licence | Mar 17, 2016
Glass jar with ceramic ‘button’ lid, for dental powder or similar. Found amid domestic waste. 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Feb 28, 2016
Black and white pot lid, printed with the words ‘Real Gorgona Anchovy Paste, so highly approved of for toast, sandwiches, etc’. It bears a coat of arms very similar to that borne by Burgess’s anchovy paste lids but is otherwise generic in that it has...
