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)
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)

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)
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Mariners' Arms  – Tyneside

Carr and Patton, North Shields

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.

Carr, Low Lights Pottery, North Shields

This transfer has a very distinctive thick anchor whose ends almost touch the shaft in the centre.
The photos below show the other transfers from this Carr wash ewer from c1870..