LEEDS POTTERY. 
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mountains, an old hear teaching the young hears their lessons, 
hunters chasing polar hears on ice, etc. 
Mr. Triffitt has a very fine large figure of a polar hear standing 
on an ice floe, in Leeds ware, and on it in hlack letters, 
“GENUINE BEARS GREASE & COLD CREAM SOLI) WITHIN.” 
Fig. 66. Lids of Bear's Grease Pots. Mr. O. Grabham’s Collection. 
To Messrs. R. Hendrie and Co., the well known perfumers and 
fancy soap makers, 4 Nile Street, City Road, London, N., I am 
indebted for the following advertisement, taken from the Morning 
Herald of May 31st, 1787, advertising a dead hear from which 
grease or fat could be obtained. I asked Messrs. Hendrie for 
what purpose the hear s grease was used, and they kindly replied 
as follows: “ You ask for what purpose it is used. We can only 
make a guess, that because the hear is a hairy animal people think 
his fat must he good for producing hair ; hut as to whether this 
has been put to any scientific test, we cannot say.'' 
