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 | Oct 16, 2016
Medium-sized Clarke’ Miraculous Salve ointment pot, priced at 2/9 per pot. Prepared by The Lincoln and Midland Counties Drug Co, Lincoln. Only the base section was found.
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 | Jun 23, 2016
Army and Navy Cold Cream pot lids and bases, with a (Victorian) Burgess’s Anchovy pot lid and base bottom left.
by Tom Licence | Mar 24, 2016
Ceramic pot bases. The one on the left (missing lid) probably contained meat or fish paste, relish or shaving cream. The one on the right might have contained toothpaste or cold cream. Note how little it contained! This was a ploy by the seller, ensuring that the...
by Tom Licence | Mar 10, 2016
Pots for Holloway’s ointment, from black scavenged domestic ash at the ash yard. 1890s.
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
Otto of Rose Cold Cream pot lid, sold by J. M. Davis & Sons, at The International Pharmacy, with addresses in London. The product ‘will keep good in any climate for years’. The lid has been in a destructor (without excessive damage) and has suffered...
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
Antiseptic Carnation Tooth Paste, prepared by W. T. Cooper, Chemist etc, 26 Oxford St. Black transfer on white, with decorative border.
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
Pot lid for Burgess’s Genuine Anchovy Paste, made at 107 Strand and suitable for spreading on toast and biscuits. It sold in vast quantities. The lid displays iron staining where a ferrous metal item has rusted next to it in the ground.
