Help Dating Waterloo Potteries Jar

Hi guys needing help with dating this. It looks to be a total different lid that someone has put on it but it looks like the same pattern. I have looked for Golden Harvest but I'm not finding it. It's about 5 inch without lid and 7 inch with lid. I have found none with this tan color. Would it be a biscuit jar?? TIA EVERYBODY

 

Here are some of its relatives... but not Golden Harvest... are these any help? You probably already are aware of them.
http://www.ebay.com/bhp/t-r-boote
http://www.ebay.tv/sch/i.html?_sop=12&_nkw=waterloo+potteries&_frs=1
That is really interesting... same pattern, different color!!!! Bet there's a story behind that.

Maybe this could help date the mark.
http://www.thepotteries.org/mark/b/boote.html
EDIT
I can't decide...

 

I don't think it's intentionally tan colored. I think it has discolored with use. That can happen when a glaze has over-all crazing. You can try cleaning it with hydrogen peroxide. Maybe someone else will explain the process to you. The lid is how it should look. Late Victorian or Edwardian, c1900 (decade or so either side). Likely a sugar bowl (they made them big back then).

 

Oh, wow, so maybe the lid was stored more carefully? Or just better-made?

 

Well... something happened to the bottom that didn't happen to the top.

 

Moreotherstuff I thought that too but the inside is the same color. I wouldn't think everything would be discolored. Here's the inside. Thanks Gila for the research.

 

Do you think that's why as far as the bottom piece is called Golden Harvest.

 

My guess would be that someone used it to serve some liquid that resulted in the stain - maybe some kind of gravy - and the underlying ceramic was porous enough that it soaked the stain up like blotting paper. I really do think it is stained from use, and very much doubt that you will find any other pieces that color.

 

Frequent immersions in hot soapy dish water could also be the culprit. Once that crazing gets started, it's all down hill. Maybe a likely scenario is the lid didn't get washed as much as the bottom did.

 

It's definitely something to be aware of. Dinner wares that have crazing have very limited table use. They'll stain at the drop of a hat. If a crazed piece isn't interesting enough to use for simple display, it will have very little value, as it is unfit for the table.

 

I think I just figured out what happened to my little darling here.
(Thanks for letting me borrow your thread for just a moment, Roger!)

 

You don't think there's no way to clean, you said something about peroxide? I mean if it's not worth nothing it wouldn't hurt to try. Thanks for all the info.

 

There is a cleaning technique using hydrogen peroxide, but I've never done it. I'm sure others have. I'll start a thread. The peroxide is a bleach. You can't use chlorine bleach because it will damage the ceramic.

 

Sugar bowl.