ANTIQUE RARE POT LID H.P. WAKELEE BURDELL’S ORIENTAL TOOTH POWDER 1856-1858

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ANTIQUE RARE POT LID H.P. WAKELEE BURDELL’S ORIENTAL TOOTH POWDER 1856-1858:
$2799.00

H.P. WAKELEE BURDELL’S ORIENTAL TOOTH POWDER POT LID 1856-1858. Condition is "Used".LISTED IN (Jackson, BJ-7) SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA. CREAM COLOR LID WITH BLACK TRANSFER, 3 1/8” IN DIAMETER. ONLY ONE OF FOUR KNOWN TO EXIST ! THE OTHERS KNOWN HAVE SOME TYPE OF DAMAGE. SEVERAL OF THE LETTERS ON ‘BURDELL’S’ ARE DULL, OTHERWISE THIS POT LID IS IN PERFECT CONDITION. THIS IS AN UNLISTED OVERGLAZE VARIATION. MANY BELIEVE THIS IS ONE OF CALIFORNIA’S HARDEST POT LIDS TO FIND. EX. BARBARA AND SONNY JACKSON’S COLLECTION. FROM GLASS WORKS sale # 139 LOT # 9. AN HISTORIC WESTERN POT LID.

Spoke with John O’Neil, president of the FOHBC at the national bottle show , July 29th 2022 in Reno Nevada. He said that he had personally dug this pot lid in downtown San Francisco in the 1980’s along with some other pontiled sodas. A great find he had made !