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Collecting Pot-lids: Coloured, Black and White, with Current Price Trends
Collecting Potlids Coloured Black and White with Current Price Trends Author:Abraham Ball A superb handy collectors guide to collecting both back and white & colored pot lids (Prattware Pot Lids) — It was Felix Edward Pratt (1813-94) who spotted the commercial possibilities of using new printing technology to decorate the lids of containers for popular products such as bear's grease, gentleman's relish, potted shrimps and ... more »cosmetics, with sophisticated designs.
After 1840, F. & R. Pratt of Fenton in Staffordshire, became the leading (but not the only) manufacturer of multicoloured transfer printed pot lids and a huge range of related wares.
Long admired for their technical excellence, for their sheer variety and as a social and historical record of their era, pot lids have a venerable collecting history and rank among the most desirable everyday items from the Victorian period.« less