SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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Mariners' Compass – Tyneside


Labelled from North Shields

The glazes on this jug appear to have misfired in the kiln.  That hasn't held it back though.  There's a label on the underside explaining that it was purchased in 1830 at Shields.  If I'd had to guess its date of manufacture, I'd have said mid 1820s, based on the creamware body and style of decoration. But 1830 is close enough to make it credible that it was purchased direct from the manufacturer, so possibly Cornfoot, Colville & Co (1828–1832) at the Low Lights Pottery, North Shields.  Despite its condition, it was a treasured enough item for its owner to record its passage through the family over almost a century.  The label reads:
This Jug was Bought at Shields in the year 1830 by William Waters, Son of George and Mary Waters, 
presented to William Waters Son of George and Mary Waters the second
and presented to Stanley Waters Parsons, by his Grandfather Waters in the Year of Our Lord 1915.
I'm indebted to Dr Sophie Nield for the genealogy below.  She writes: The whole family are mariners and shipwrights from Bothenhampton, Dorset, which might explain the choice of the Mariners Compass.
One thing more to note is that these versions of the transfers, which are titled underneath, 'Mariner's Compass', 'Landlord's Caution' and 'Success to [indecipherable] Trade', have not yet been recorded on any other items.

Attributed to Robert Maling, Ouseburn Bridge Pottery 


Early imprint without border above title

On the early imprints there is no serrated wheel border above the words Mariner's Compass (see section below for examples with the border).
The second jug below commemorates the coronation of William IV the 'sailor king' in 1831.  This is the earliest dated use of the transfer that I've found.
The version of the transfer without a border (see left details below) has scratches that also appear on the transfer with the border (right details below).  So the copper plate was likely reworked at a later date, and the border added.  The later imprints with a border also have a diagonal scratch just to the left of NE (see bottom right detail).

Later  imprint with border above title

This version of the transfer has a serrated wheel border above the words Mariner's Compass.
The jug below also has the 'serrated wheel' border, but no scratches as above. 
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  • Home
  • Armorials
    • Crimea
    • Farmers' Arms
    • Foresters
    • Free & Accepted Masons
    • Gardeners' Arms
    • God Speed the Plough
    • Mariners' Arms
    • Mariners' Compass (early versions)
    • Mariners' Compass (flags)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 1)
    • Mariners' Compass (ships 2)
    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
    • Masonry 1
    • Masonry 2
    • Masons' Arms
    • Masons' Arms (Tyne)
    • Odd Fellows (Grand Union of)
    • Odd Fellows (Independent Order of)
  • Maritime
    • Flag That's Braved 1000 Years
    • Jack on a Cruise
    • Jack's Safe Return - The Token
    • O'er the Green Sea
    • 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 and Return - Maling type
    • Sailor's Return (Now Safe Returned From Dangers Past)
    • Sailor's Return - Seaham and Stockton type
    • 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
    • Gudrun
    • Life Boat
    • Majestically slow before the breeze... (Success to the Coal Trade)
    • Marco Polo
    • May Peace and Plenty...
    • May Peace Once More...
    • Norah Creina Steam Yacht
    • 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)
    • Victory
  • Verses
    • A little health...
    • 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...
  • Inscriptions
    • C,C & Co-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Carr & Patton-Attributed Inscriptions
    • John Carr & Sons Inscriptions
    • John Patton Inscriptions
    • Robert Maling-Attributed Inscriptions
    • C T Maling-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Newcastle Pottery Inscriptions
    • Thomas Fell-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Joseph Sewell-attributed inscriptions
    • Sheriff Hill-Attributed Inscriptions
    • Early North Hylton or Sunderland Inscriptions
    • North Hylton inscriptions
    • Dawson Inscriptions pre-1830
    • Dawson Inscriptions post-1830
    • Phillips Inscriptions
    • Dixon Austin Dated Inscriptions
    • Dixon Austin Pictorial Inscriptions
    • Dixon, Phillips & Co Inscriptions
    • Moore Inscriptions
    • Scott Inscriptions
  • Bridge over river Wear
  • High Level Bridge Newcastle
  • Commemoratives
  • Months
  • Dawson Bachelor / Supper Sets
  • Flowers
  • Frogs
  • Garrison Pottery puzzle jugs
  • Stockton Money Boxes
  • Stockton Pottery - Thomas Ainsworth
  • The Blue Flower Pottery
  • Warburton Transfers
  • Continental export wares
  • Sherds from North Hylton