Mariners' Arms

Mariners' Arms – Sunderland

Garrison Pottery 1

Large Dixon jug with a hand-painted inscription dated 1830. Note the zig-zag of foliage to the right of the shield (bottom centre detail).

Below is the same transfer on a creamware frog mug from a similar date. The transfer has been decorated with over-enamels.

The mug has a typical Dixon frog.

Garrison Pottery 2

Although unmarked, the lustre decoration and transfers on this jug are typical of the Garrison Pottery in the 1850s.

Left figure has no buttons on coat on left side (top right detail)
Left hat brim not shaded, right hat brim shaded
Apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
Pile of cannonballs in front of cannon (last detail)

This version of the transfer was also used on frog mugs, with a large-sized frog. The second jug above with coloured enamels is from the same copper plate, but perhaps earlier, c1840s.

Garrison Pottery 3

Left figure has two buttons on coat below left arm and none above (top right detail)
Brims to hats are shaded
Apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
Pile of cannonballs in front of cannon (last detail)

Low Ford Pottery, J Dawson & Co

A small and rare jug with a printed mark 'J Dawson & Co Low Ford'.

Moore & Co

Newbottle Pottery

Left figure has two buttons on coat below left arm and two buttons above (top right detail)
Brims to hats aren't shaded
No apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
Pile of cannonballs in front of cannon (last detail)

Seaham Pottery

Left figure has two buttons on coat below left arm and no buttons above (top right detail)
Brims to hats aren't shaded
No apostrophe after the word 'Mariners'
No pile of cannonballs in front of cannon (last detail)

The black decoration on the handle of the first frog mug is a feature associated with Seaham. The mug beneath it was likely a factory second and was never decorated. It has two scratches to the right of the anchor that appear on later imprints from the plate (see right detail). The large Seaham jug in the Sunderland Museum, dated 1847, has these scratches (see above), but the first frog mug below does not, so was likely made earlier.

Mariners' Arms – Tyneside

Carr and Patton, North Shields 1

This transfer was likely used by both Cornfoot, Carr and Co (1832–1838) and Carr and Patton (1838–1846) at North Shields. It is very similar to the 1830s' Garrison Pottery transfer at the top of this page.

The other transfers on the jug are shown below, and beneath them two 'documentary' jugs with the same version of the transfer. The date, 1840, is perhaps a little later than I might have first guessed, and falls within the Carr and Patton period.