NEW COLLECTING CRAZE.
One of the most astonishing quests of the sma 1 collector of to-day is that of circular decorated potlids. These were made in Staffordshire at a trifling cost in Victorian times to form the coloured covers of jars of cosmetics and even of preserved meat paste and potted fish paste. The jars were often broken and thrown in the dustbin when their consents were exhausted, but t'ne coloured lids in many instances, because of their intrinsic beauty, have survived. Until the present “rage ” for collecting them began they could have been acquired for a few pence.
A rare example of these once disregarded lids has just changed hands at a famous London auct'on-room. ~fter excitng bidding, for no less than £3B.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 305, 12 September 1929, Page 6
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124NEW COLLECTING CRAZE. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 305, 12 September 1929, Page 6
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