Pot lids are the lids or covers of small pottery jars which were used to hold a variety of products. Often, they were decorated using the transfer printing process , and though quite laborious by today's standards, it was much faster than the previous method of hand lettering or pasting a hand written paper label on the sides of the pots (jars) to describe the contents within. These enchanting little transfer printed pottery jars were produced mainly between 1840-1910, after which they became obsolete, due to less expensive, mass marketing methods using tubes and plastics. During the era of pot lids, c ontainers in all different shapes, though mainly round, and with all kinds of advertising and graphics, as well as pictorial images, to increase public appeal were made. The marketed products were substances which came in a paste or hardened cake form. The gamut of products sold in the little jars consists of facial cold creams, shaving cream, ointments believed to hav