SUNDERLAND AND TYNE POTTERY TRANSFERS
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  • Maritime
    • 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)
    • Shields the Mouth of River Tyne
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    • Agamemnon in a storm
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  • Verses
    • A little health... (Tyne)
    • Distress me with those tears...
    • Foremast man...
    • Forget Me Not
    • Glide on my bark...
    • Life's like a ship...
    • 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)
    • 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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Mariner's Compass  – Sunderland


 Garrison Pottery 1

This transfer, with ships on either side of the compass, appears on typical Dixon plaques with impressed marks.
The rare loving cup below appears to have the same version of the transfer.  The frog is typical of items from the 1840s.

Garrison Pottery 2

This transfer is almost identical to the one above.  However, note the shading of the flag on the right.
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The bowl has the Dixon Phillips anchor impress used before 1850.

Garrison Pottery 3

This transfer is very similar to those above, except there is no full stop after the word compass.  NB the apostrophe appears to have been trimmed from this particular imprint, but its tail is just visible.
On the first row below are images showing the other transfers on the bowl. On the second row is a similar bowl with very distinctive Dixon transfers.
The same transfer also appears on the Crimean jug below, again with typical Dixon transfers.  Note the three horizontal black marks under the compass.  These appear faintly on the bowls (left detail below), but are much more pronounced on the jug (right detail).
Finally, a mug with the same transfer.  The bright enamelling (clobbering) is similar to that used by John Carr.  It is just possible that this mug was made by Carr's after 1865 when the Garrison Pottery closed, although the heavy lustre decoration is similar to the first bowl above.

 Moore's Pottery


Mariner's Compass  – Tyneside


Thomas Fell, St Peter's Pottery

The jug, c1840, is attributed to Fell on the basis of the distinctive lustre decoration, elements of which are found on plaques with the Fell impress.  The over-glaze transfers of Fell items from this period have a sooty quality.

 NB no apostrophe or full stop in the title.

John Carr and Sons, North Shields 1

A bowl from c1870s with orange lustre, and a John Carr and Sons mark with stag's head.
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John Carr and Sons, North Shields 2

The jug, although unmarked, has typical Carr decoration, c1870s.  The other sides are shown on the top row below.  The transfer also appears on a huge and heavily potted, unmarked, jug with similar decoration.

Mariner's Compass  – Staffordshire


Adam's Pottery

The jug below is technically a reproduction, made in Staffordshire likely in the first half of the 20th century.

Gray's type reproduction

A common reproduction from the second half of the 20th century.  These reproductions have a distinctive dark mottled lustre.  You can see more examples here.
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  • Home
  • Armorials
    • Crimea
    • Farmers' Arms
    • Foresters
    • Gardeners' Arms
    • God Speed the Plough
    • Mariners' Arms
    • Mariners' Compass (flags)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 1)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 2)
    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
    • Masonry
    • Masons' Arms
    • Masons' Arms (Tyne)
    • Odd Fellows
  • Bridge over river Wear
    • East view B32, B33 (Coal Trade)
    • Sunderland Bridge
    • Sunderland Bridge B5 (Seaham)
    • West View B13 (oval-Dixon)
    • West View B26, B38 (oval)
    • West View B39 (oval-Scott)
    • West view (oval-Tyne)
    • West View B9 (rectangular)
    • West View B14 (rectangular)
    • West View B24, B27 (rectangular)
    • West View B29 (rectangular)
    • West View B12 (rectangular-Tyne)
  • Maritime
    • 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)
    • Shields the Mouth of River Tyne
  • Ships
    • Agamemnon in a storm
    • Columbus (Tyne)
    • Gauntlet Clipper
    • Northumberland 74
    • Life Boat (Tyne)
    • 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...
    • 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)
    • The sails unfurl, let the billows...
    • Thou noble bark...
    • Thus smiling at peril... (Tyne)
    • Time (Tyne)
    • When tempests mingle...
    • When this you see... (Tyne)
  • Flowers
  • Frogs