SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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    • The sails unfurl, let the billows...
    • Thou noble bark...
    • Thus smiling at peril... (Tyne)
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High Level Bridge Newcastle Upon Tyne

The High Level Bridge in Newcastle was a rail bridge and opened in 1849.

Attributed to John Carr's Low Lights Pottery, North Shields

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Photo Ian Sharp
This version of the transfer is easily  identifiable by the curvy cloud formations.  This plaque form was know to have been used by several Tyne potteries, including Fell, Maling and Carr.  However, brown/sepia transfers (as opposed to black) are known to have been John Carr c1850, and that is my best guess for an attribution at this stage. The jug below has a more typical black transfer, and the lustre decoration is again consistent with Carr.

Attributed to Thomas Fell, St Peter's Pottery, Newcastle

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A large high-waisted jug attributed to Fell on the basis of its lustre decoration.
A similar jug with the transfer and other variations of maritime transfers attributed to Fell.
The jug below, with a distinctive broad foot, has decorative features associated with Thomas Fell.
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Photo Boldon Auction Galleries
This jug, in the ​Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection is in their catalogue tentatively attributed to Maling.  It combines the Newcastle High Level Bridge transfer with a view of the Sunderland Bridge (bridge 29).
The plaque below has another feature peculiar to Fell.  The holes for hanging are pierced through the central portion, rather than through the pink-lustre border.
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Photo Ian Holmes

Attributed to CT Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, Newcastle

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Photo Skinner Auctioneers
The bowl below is unmarked.
This transfer is attributed to Maling on the basis of the bowl below in the ​Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.  The catalogue says it has a triangular impressed mark with the initials CTM.
This transfer on the small Christening mug below, with an inscription for 1854.
The same transfer on two larger, heavily lustred mugs.
Below is a jug whose current condition matches the title under the ship.

Attributed to CT Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, Newcastle

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Note the clouds to the right of the bridge.  They are stronger on this imprint and closer in appearance to the later (reproduction) mug below.

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The clouds to the right of the bridge are missing in part.  I've assumed that this is a vagary of the rubbing of the transfer, perhaps a crease in the tissue, over a curved surface, but it could be from a different transfer plate.  Or perhaps an earlier imprint from the same plate, and the clouds were engraved at a later date.

Below is a 20th century reproduction mug, taken from Maling's original transfer plate.  It is acknowledged as a reproduction in the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection catalogue.  Although I believe the item was made by Maling in Newcastle, rather than Staffordshire, as I've seen similar wares with Maling printed marks.

Unidentified Tyne pottery

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Photo Duggleby Stephenson of York
This view, from an as-yet unidentified Tyne pottery, is similar to the CT Maling version above.  However, the clouds are different.

Attributed to either CT Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery, or
​Thomas Fell, St Peter's Pottery, Newcastle

A very similar view to the unattributed jug above.  However, there is smoke coming from the chimneys of the buildings in the foreground.  Unusually, the Sunderland and Newcastle bridge transfers are married with Adam Buck-type engravings from an older copper plate (c1820).  See RC Bell (p15) for a copper plate with these designs 'belonging to Robert Maling'.  However, this version of the the Sunderland Bridge transfer (bottom left below) appears on the large Fell-attributed jug above.  So at present I'm torn over this attribution.
Below, the left transfer shown above, on a jug.

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    • Mariners' Compass (ships 1)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 2)
    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
    • Masonry 1
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    • Masons' Arms
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    • Odd Fellows
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    • Flag That's Braved 1000 Years
    • Jack on a Cruise
    • Jack's Safe Return - The Token
    • Pirate
    • Sailor's Farewell (Far from home...)
    • Sailor's Farewell (Sweet, oh sweet...)
    • Sailor's Farewell, Tyne (Sweet, oh sweet...)
    • Sailor's Farewell (The order giv'n)
    • Sailor's Fairwell - Maling type
    • Sailor's Return (Now Safe Returned From Dangers Past)
    • Shields the Mouth of River Tyne
    • Sweet Little Cherub (Poor Jack)
    • Tynemouth Haven
  • Ships
    • Agamemnon in a storm
    • Ball Ships
    • Brig / Schooner
    • Columbus (Tyne)
    • Duke of Wellington / La Bretagne
    • Frigate in Full Sail
    • Gauntlet Clipper
    • Great Australia Clipper Ship
    • Great Eastern Steamship
    • Life Boat (Tyne)
    • Majestically slow before the breeze... (Success to the Coal Trade)
    • Marco Polo
    • May Peace and Plenty...
    • May Peace Once More...
    • Northumberland 74
    • Star of Tasmania
    • Success to the Coal Trade
    • Success to the shipping trade
    • Success to the Tars of Old England
    • Truelove from Hull / Unfortunate London
    • Untitled orange lustre ships
    • Untitled ship (Tyne)
  • Verses
    • A little health... (Tyne)
    • Distress me with those tears...
    • Foremast man...
    • Forget Me Not
    • Glide on my bark...
    • Life's like a ship...
    • Man Doom'd to Sail – The Tear
    • My bonny sailor's won my mind... (Tyne)
    • My heart is fix'd... (Tyne)
    • Now weigh the anchor...
    • Sailor's Tear
    • Success to all sailors... (Tyne)
    • Success to the Farmer
    • Success to the Tars of Old England (Here's to you Jack)
    • The sails unfurl, let the billows...
    • Thou noble bark...
    • Thus smiling at peril... (Tyne)
    • Time (Tyne)
    • When tempests mingle...
    • When this you see... (Tyne)
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  • Bridge over river Wear
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  • Frogs
  • Fordy & Patterson Puzzle Jugs
  • Victoria
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  • The Blue Flower Pottery