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Antique Cracroft’s Areca Nut Toothpaste pot - ironstone pot lid and base

Antique Cracroft’s Areca Nut Toothpaste pot - ironstone pot lid and base

A Victorian chemist pot lid and base, made of white ironstone pottery and decorated on the top side for Cracroft’s Areca Nut toothpaste made by John Pepper & Co. The underside of the lid also bears a black advertising transfer for Sulpholine Soap.

Cracroft’s Areca Nut Tooth Paste

Prepared from the Cincalese recipe

Warranted Genuine

Price 1s & 2s6d

John Pepper & Co. Limited

Bedford Laboratory

London

Sold by all chemists

Sulpholine Soap

The purest, safest, best, and least expensive Toilet Soap.

Sold Everywhere.

Tablets Sixpence.

A very decorative antique pot lid, which utilises a variety of bold typography bordered by a single pinstripe, which continues onto the underside with a further stylised variety of lettering bordered by a double pinstripe.

Dimensions:

7.1cm lid diameter

6.7cm pot diameter

4.1cm tall

Condition:

In superb condition with some age related wear, marks and crazing, particularly on the base. There is a minuscule fleabite on the inner rim of the base, but the lid is perfect and there’s no damage otherwise.

    £55.00Price
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