Pot lids are another area of interest to collect from early 19th-century tips. Most of the common lids are black transfer on a white glazed round lid. These were used to advertise their contents, usually tooth paste (or powder) or meat and fish pastes.

'Woods Areca Nut Tooth Paste' is probably the most common and was manufactured in Plymouth; these sold for sixpence. A larger one shilling size is rarer and sometimes you might find the sixpence in a red transfer.

Cold cream and hair restoring products also came in a pot with various claims to assist the sale. Probably the most sort after are those pot lids depicting bears. Bears grease lids can fetch high prices in today's market.

A good reference and price guide can be found in 'a collectors guide advertising pot lids' by Alan Blakeman.