HL-3 "WASHINGTON" / "LAFAYETTE" HISTORICAL PRESSED OPEN SALT, colorless, scallop-and-point rim, name faintly embossed above each bust, grape bunch and leaf base. Listed as unique by Neal. Probably New England Glass Co. 1830-1840. 2 1/8" H, 2 1/8" x 3".
Literature: Neal, Pressed Glass Salt Dishes of the Lacy Period, p. 119. Like Bourne, The William J. Elsholz Collection, Vol. II, p. 167, lot  638. The McKearins, American Glass, pl. 164, fig. 6, "perhaps the rarest historical salt". Rose, The Story of American Pressed Glass of the Lacy Period, p. 152, fig. 805. Parallels Spillman, American and European Pressed Glass in The Corning Museum of Glass, p. 181, fig. 683.

Lafayette side with an inner-rim chip affecting two scallops and one point, also with a crack, possibly annealing off the rim and around the corner to center of end, some light mold roughness.