SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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    • A little health... (Tyne)
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    • 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)
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Success to the Farmer  – Sunderland

The verse appears on pots from both Wearside and Tyneside from about 1850 onwards.
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Success to the Farmer, and prosper his plough
Rewarding his ardent toil, all the year through
See time and harvest he ever shall get,
He's trusted all to providence, and so may he yet
There is an original copper plate with the transfer, donated by the Ball family, in the ​Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.  It appears to have started life at the Garrison Pottery, then moved to Scott's when the Dixon partnership ended in 1865, before finally being acquired by Ball's.
All the imprints from this plate have a unique flaw.  There is a small vertical scratch under the second 't' in 'trusted', perhaps where the engraver slipped.  It is most clearly seen in the second detail below from the Garrison Pottery pedestal bowl.  By the time the plate arrived at Scott's (right detail below) it appears to have faded a little.

Dixon, Phillips & Co, Garrison Pottery

A Dixon pedestal bowl, c1860, with branchlike lustre decoration particular to the Garrison Pottery.  This is the transfer from the copper plate in the Sunderland Museum, which would later be acquired by Scott's and then Ball (detail from the word 'trusted' shown above).  The transfer plate was re-engraved at various times in its life.  Note that in these earlier Dixon imprints, the 'i' in the word 'providence' is not dotted.  By the time the copper plate reached Scott's, that omission had been rectified.

A slop bowl with an impressed mark, 'Dixon Co', used after 1850.

Moore's Wear Pottery

This transfer is very similar to the Garrison version, but from a different copper plate.  Note that the words in the second detail are compressed as they are in the Garrison version.  However, there is no scratch under the second 't' in trusted. The word 'providence' has a dotted 'i'.


Another Moore-impressed bowl.  The combination of transfers suggests that Moore's Pottery had a copper plate made that was very similar to the Dixon/Scott one shown above, with transfers of the 'Sunderland Bridge', 'Gauntlet Clipper Ship' and 'Agamemnon in a Storm'.

Scott's Southwick Pottery – plate 1


This version of the transfer has a different style of lettering altogether.  Interestingly, this copper plate also seems to have found its way to Ball's Deptford Pottery (see below), which, as the last surviving pottery making 'Sunderland wares', became a repository for transfer plates and moulds from potteries on both Wearside and Tyneside.

Three typical Scott jugs from the 1850s.  The last two pair the verse with the 'Crimea' transfer, c1855.

Scott's Southwick Pottery – plate 2

This is the copper transfer plate acquired from the Garrison Pottery in 1865, and now in the Sunderland Museum.  All these items have the scratch on the second 't' in 'trusted'.


A rare puzzle jug, c1870 with the transfer.  The flower lustre decoration under the spout is very similar to that found on Dixon (Garrison) items from the 1850s.  Also, the decoration of the handle.  It seems likely that the enameller moved from Dixon's to Scott's around 1865, when the former pottery closed.

Attributed to Ball's Deptford Pottery

This appears to be the Scott 'plate 1' version of the transfer.  
Below, a glimpse of what appears to be the Garrison/Scott 'plate 2' transfer on a Ball's bowl, c1900.
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Success to the Farmer  – Tyneside


Robert Maling, Newcastle

Below, two moulded jugs; the second with an inscription dated 1851.

C T Maling, Newcastle

This transfer is attributed to Maling on the basis of the bowl below in the ​Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums collection.  The catalogue says it has a triangular impressed mark with the initials CTM.


Two heavily lustred mugs.  The second with the High Level Bridge Newcastle Upon Tyne.
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    • God Speed the Plough
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    • Mariners' Compass (Tyne)
    • Masonry 1
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    • Masons' Arms
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    • 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
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