SUNDERLAND AND TYNE POTTERY TRANSFERS
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The Sailor's Tear – Sunderland


 Garrison Pottery 1

Two imprints from the same copper plate, the first with coloured enamels, and likely earlier, c1840s. The second is typical of the Garrison pottery, from a jug dated 1850.
The transfer has a unique flaw – a long downstroke on the letter 'H' at the start of the poem's first line.

Garrison Pottery 2


Newbottle Pottery

This distinctive version of the transfer appears on wash ewers and bowls. This transfer plate appears to have been later sold to Moore's Pottery.  The second bowl has similarities of decoration with that pottery.
On later imprints there are some scratches, most notably through the word 'friends'.  This appears on all the items above except the plaque, which is likely earlier in date.​
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Scott and Sons, Southwick Pottery, 1829–1841.

Above, a tankard with the printed mark under the verse 'Scott & Sons Southwick'.  Below a jug with the same transfer.
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The decoration around the collar of the jug and under the spout is typical of Scott's pottery and was used as late as 1860. This jug c1840.

Scott Brothers and Co, Southwick Pottery, 1841–1872

This is the same transfer as above, but with the mark obliterated.  It seems likely that the printed mark 'Scott & Sons' was erased when the partnership changed at the Southwick Pottery. 

Seaham Pottery

The transfer on this c1847 bowl is smudged, and difficult to read (see the relevant Mariner's Compass page
Below is a jug with a clearer imprint of the transfer.  The jug is perhaps later than the bowl above.  Note the apostrophe in the word 'leap'd', which hasn't come through on the bowl.

The Sailor's Tear – Tyneside


Newcastle Pottery

A completely different rendering of the verse from a jug from the Newcastle Pottery.  ​
The short spout and deep purple splash lustre are typical of the Newcastle Pottery.  This distinctive transfer of The Foresters Arms appears on Newcastle jugs with a yellow stripe.

Thomas Fell, St Peter's Pottery

A very similar transfer to that on the Newcastle jug above.  This jug 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.
The other transfers on the jug shown below with a frog mug of similar age and decoration.

John Carr and Sons, North Shields

A marked John Carr and Sons bowl from c1870s with orange lustre.
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  • 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