AA Auctions

Pot Lid: 'Heaps, Kendal'

Description:  A very rare Cold Cream pot lid from this Southern Lakes market town in Cumbria. Fancy Border. 'Rowel Bridge 1984' written on a small sticker on the back, presumably where it was dug (?) 

Era:  c1900-1910's

Diameter:  70 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):  Fair/Good   A medium (16mm x 2mm) chip on the very back rim, a small insignificant curved glaze-line on the side wall (that doesn't go all the way through), some minor in-manufacture glaze-miss/glaze-smudges (mainly on the sides, and are not repairs as they may look like in the photos) and a very small (2mm x 4mm) in-manufacture chip/dip on the back rim (which is fully glazed over anyway) and is otherwise very good

Grade :  6.9        Estimate:   £20-40     Reserve:     N/R

Pot Lid: 'Thomas Ridley, Carlisle & Stanwix'

Description:  A very rare Cold Cream pot lid in green print from this North East city (prior to 1912 Stanwix was a separate parish, but is now a suburb of Carlisle) - Rare opportunity 

Era:  c1900-1912

Diameter:  72 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):  Very Good   Just a small (7mm x 3mm) insignificant chip on the inside back of the rear flange (which is 99% hidden from side view anyway) and is otherwise mint

Grade :  8.9        Estimate:   £40-60+     Reserve:     N/R

Pot Lid: 'Thomas Bell, Ambleside'

Description:  A very rare smaller variation Cold Cream pot lid from the Lake District. This time from a town on the head of Lake Windermere. Three bells pictorial trade mark. Excellent quality print 

Era:  c1900-1910's

Diameter:  63 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):  Fair/Good  A long shallow (28mm x 4mm) chip on the back of the rim has been filled (as have a few few very shallow pits/chips on the underside and apart from a few glaze-lines on the side rim and 3 fleabites on the very back rim is otherwise good and is excellent on display

Grade :  6.5        Estimate:   £30-50     Reserve:     N/R

Pot Lid:  'Ritson's, Carlisle'

Description:  A very rare Cherry Tooth Paste pot lid from this historic city in the North West of England. Good quality print 

Era:  c1900-1910's

Diameter:  67 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):  Fair/Good  A medium (20mm x 4mm) chip on the inside back of the rim is mostly hidden from the side view and a small light 13mm hairline just creeps onto the face from it (at around five o'clock) and is otherwise very good 

Grade :  6.5        Estimate:   £20-40     Reserve:     N/R

Pot Lid:  'Severs & Bateson, Kendal'

Description:  Another very rare Cold Cream pot lid from Kendal, in the South Lakeside District of Cumbria.  Good strong print 

Era:  c1900-1910's

Diameter:  69 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):  Fair/Good  A medium (12mm x 3mm) chip on the outside rim (at 7 o'clock) and a tiny in-manufacture touch-mark on the face (around 11 o'clock) and other than some light rust crazing (mainly on the underside) is otherwise very good 

Grade :  6.2        Estimate:   £20-40     Reserve:     N/R

Pot Lid:  'Baumbrough's'

Description:  A scarce Ointment pot lid with patent base made by Maw (the well-known London manufacturing chemist suppliers). A few turned up at a bottle show a couple of years back, but many were chipped and/or poorly registered prints. They were discovered in the cellar of an old former grocer's shop in Leighton Buzzard (Bedforshire, England) which turned out to be quite a significant find, as far as is known, the patent bases might also be unrecorded (?) They are very similar to the Toogoods design, but the grooves in the edges are more like deep slots. Added to that there are no grooves in the lid themselves to be able to tie them down without the string slipping off, so at the moment there seems no point to the patent.  Good quality print 

Era:  c1910-1930's

Diameter:  63 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):  LID: Excellent  Just a tiny pinprick flake in the glaze on the bottom of the rim (which is possibly in-manufacture anyway) and is otherwise mint / BASE - Mint   

Grade :   9.8  (overall)      Estimate:   £30-50+     Reserve:     N/R

Pot Lid:    'Henri Freres, Paris et Londres'

Description:   A large and impressive Creme D'Amandes pot lid featuring a castle turret with vines either side. Very pleasing decorative layout. Excellent quality print

Era:   c1900-10's

Diameter:   88 mm

Condition (please see detailed photo's):   Very good  Just one tiny and insignificant (2mm) chip on the bottom rim outside edge, a miniscule mark on the outside rim (an impurity in the glaze?), some in-manufacture glaze-miss near the bottom of the rim in places (very insignificant) and some tiny bumps in the glaze in places (which are all in-manufacture) otherwise excellent

Grade :  8.8    Estimate:   £30-50    Reserve:   N/R

Pot Lid:    'Dangerous Skating'

Description:   A small Prattware pot lid (often mistakedly called 'Dangerous Ice'). This one being the variation with 6 steps and yellow beaded border. Excellent quality print and colours

Era:   c1860-70's

Diameter:   73 mm

Condition (please see detailed photo's):   Excellent  Just a tiny and insignificant (2mm) shallow fleabite flake on the bottom rim outside edge which is barely visible and is otherwise mint

Grade :  9.1    Estimate:   £30-40    Reserve:   £25

Pot Lid:  'William Hall, Lancaster'

Description:  Another very rare tooth paste pot lid this time from Lancaster, a Lancashire city in the NW of England.  Good quality print 

Era:  c1900-1910's

Diameter:  66 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):  Excellent  Just a tiny pinprick scratch in the glaze on the top edge (barely noticeable and possibly even in the glaze?) and a very faint glaze-line (that doesn't go all the way through and is nigh on impossible to spot with the naked eye) and is otherwise mint - nb the mark on the underside is just the remnants of an old sticker  

Grade :  9.7        Estimate:   £30-50     Reserve:     N/R

Pot Lid:    'Reed, Altrincham'

Description:   A genuine Cold Cream of Roses pot lid from this retailer in Greater Manchester. The larger example with a gold rim. Pleasing decorative layout. Scarce. (the other Reed (lot #7) turned out to be a fake as it had a solid internal circle as opposed to serrations like this one)

Era:   c1890-1910

Diameter:   72 mm

Condition (please see detailed photo's):   Fair/Good  Just one medium (9mm x 4mm) chip on the outside edge (at one o'clock), a small 6mm glaze-line on the face (at around five o'clock), some small black marks/impurities on the back rim (and other lighter ones on the underside) and wear on most of the gold band, otherwise very good.

Grade : 6.3     Estimate:   £10-20    Reserve:   N/R

Pot Lid:    'J.Low, Chester-Le-Street'

Description:   An attractive square tooth paste pot lid from this County Durham town south of Newcastle. Great quality print and very appealing layout

Era:   c1900-10's

Dimensions:   61 mm square

Condition (please see detailed photo's):   Very good  Just a small (6mm x 2mm) very shallow chip (hardly noticeable at first) and a small patch of rust on the underside, otherwise mint.

Grade :  8.9    Estimate:   £30-50    Reserve:   N/R

Pot Lid:    'R. Cuthbert, Huddersfield'

Description:   A large and very impressive cherry tooth paste pot lid from this town in West Yorkshire. Arm and arrow trade mark  Great quality print and very appealing layout. 

Era:   c1900-10's

Diameter:   83 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):   Excellent  Just a couple of (almost impossible to see) tiny pin-head glaze-scuffs which are barely worth mentioning and some light overall grey crazing and is otherwise mint.

Grade :  9.6    Estimate:   £50-80+    Reserve:   N/R

Pot Lid:    'Carbolic Tooth Paste'

Description:   An attractive square tooth paste pot lid in sepia brown print. Appealing layout and decent print

Era:   c1900-20's

Dimensions:   63 mm square

Condition (please see detailed photo's):   Good  Barely any damage, just a tiny (2mm) flake on the very back rim (and a few tiny pin-head fleabites on the back rim also) and apart from some overall and mottled greyness on the face and sides is otherwise very good.

Grade :  7.4    Estimate:   £30-50    Reserve:   N/R

Pot Lid:  'A. Robertson, Oban'

Description:  Another scarce cold cream pot lid this time from the western coast of Scotland.  Good quality print 

Era:  c1900-1910's

Diameter:  66 mm 

Condition (please see detailed photo's):  Excellent/Near Mint  Superb condition with just some very faint and insignificant glaze-lines and crazing on the side wall and is otherwise mint

Grade :  9.7        Estimate:   £30-50     Reserve:     N/R