SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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    • A little health... (Tyne)
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    • Man Doom'd to Sail – The Tear
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    • Now weigh the anchor...
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    • 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... (Tyne)
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Star of Tasmania – Sunderland

You can read Pauline Connolly's blog on the history of the ship here.

Moore & Co's Wear Pottery and Scott's Southwick Pottery

The Star of Tasmania was built in 1856.  However, the jug below has the East View of the New Bridge transfer.  The New Bridge didn't open until 1859.  It is unclear whether the two transfers come from the same copper plate.   However, neither transfer appears on orange lustre items, suggesting that they were taken out of service by the mid 1860s.  The Star of Tasmania most commonly appears paired with a religious verse, 'Be Wise Then Christian While You May'.  It is an incongruous pairing, but perhaps suggests the transfers appeared side by side on the copper transfer plate.
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The flower painted collar on this jug is unusual.   It appears to have been decorated with particular care on commission, as a present for John Mauger.

The jugs with these ship transfers are always unmarked.  The heavily lustred collars and zig-zag lustre decoration are, however, associated with Moore's pottery. 

The bowl below has a Moore impressed mark, and an inscription dated 1859. The 'Star of Tasmania' transfer is often paired with the 'Frigate in Full Sail' on bowls.  However, I'm unsure that they were on the same copper plate.

Below, a large punch bowl with the Moore impress over a letter 'B'.

Another Moore impressed bowl with heavily lustred lip, typical of that pottery.

The plaque on the right is typical of Moore's from the 1850s, and the right from the 1860s.

A frog mug with a Moore smiling frog.

Below, a plate with the SCOTT impress. ​ Baker writes, that 'Scott's supplied earthenware to Moore's Wear Pottery [...] presumably plain for decoration' (Baker page 54).
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Photo Gowan's Auction House

Below, the transfer printed in gold on a blue-glass rolling pin.  Norman Lowe has suggested that the copper plates with these ship transfers had been moved to Sheepfolds Warehouse which, employing the principles of division of labour, decorated white earthenware items for both Moore's and Scott's.  Sheepfolds were known to have had a side line in decorating rolling pins.
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Photo Norman Lowe
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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 1
    • Masonry 2
    • Masons' Arms
    • Masons' Arms (Tyne)
    • Odd Fellows
  • Maritime
    • Flag That's Braved 1000 Years
    • Jack on a Cruise
    • Jack's Safe Return - The Token
    • 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 - Maling type
    • Sailor's Return (Now Safe Returned From Dangers Past)
    • 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
    • Life Boat (Tyne)
    • Majestically slow before the breeze... (Success to the Coal Trade)
    • Marco Polo
    • May Peace and Plenty...
    • May Peace Once More...
    • 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)
  • Verses
    • A little health... (Tyne)
    • 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... (Tyne)
  • 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
    • Joseph Sewell-attributed inscriptions
    • Thomas Fell-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
  • Fordy & Patterson Puzzle Jugs
  • Warburton Transfers
  • The Blue Flower Pottery