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Polychrome lid sells for £3,600 ($4,362)

 

Pratt pot lidThe Adventures of a Bear, and a Great Bear TooSold eBay 8/11/22 £3,600 / $4362.  Per Mortimer 2003, “Pot lids and Other Coloured Printed Staffordshire Wares”, this polychrome / Pratt pot lid pattern is “extremely rare”, #6 of 6 in terms of relative rarity. The source print, also shown here, originated in “The Adventures of a Bear, and a Great Bear Too”, published in 1853, by Alfred Elwes (1819-1888), illustrated by Harrison Weir (1824-1906).