SUNDERLAND AND TYNE LUSTRE POTTERY
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    • Man Doom'd to Sail – The Tear
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    • My heart is fix'd... (Tyne)
    • Now weigh the anchor...
    • Sailor's Tear
    • Success to all sailors... (Tyne)
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    • 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)
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West view of  the Cast Iron Bridge... – bridge 39

This is the most common view of the Bridge over the River Wear, and was used by many potteries.  Scott's Pottery used multiple very similar variations of this transfer, which merit a page of their own. The easiest way to spot the difference between the groups of photos below is to look at the shapes of the clouds in the top centre detail. The Scott transfers are typified by a row of small horizontal clouds above the bridge.

A Scott and Sons, 1829–1841, plate 1

A mug with a printed mark for 'Scott & Sons Southwick'.  Note that the 'S' in 'Scott' is above the 'F' in feet.
Two further jugs with lustre stripes to the collars, and a mug with a dated inscription for 1837.

A Scott and Sons, 1829–1841, plate 2

A lidded pot with two transfers with Scott & Sons printed marks. ​Note that the 'S' in 'Scott' starts above the 't' in feet.

A Scott and Sons, 1829–1841, plate 3

This version does not have printed marks, but the dated inscription on the jug (1839) shows it was in use during the Scott & Sons period.

Scott Brothers and Co, 1841–mid 1840s, plate 1

It seems likely to me that these items, with erased printed marks are from the early 1840s, just after the change in partnership.  On this version, the erased mark begins above the 'F' in 'Feet'.  This is the same copper plate as the Scott & Sons plate 1 above.
A jug with the erased mark transfer and an inscription for 1843.
A more faded imprint of the transfer on a chamber pot with typical Scott flowers, from the early to mid 1840s.

Scott Brothers and Co, 1841–mid 1840s, plate 2

On this version, the erased mark begins above the 't' in 'Feet'. ​ This is the same copper plate as the Scott & Sons plate 2 above.

Scott Brothers and Co, plate 3


Scott Brothers and Co, plate 4



 Scott Brothers and Co, plate 5


Scott Brothers and Co, plate 6

The transfer on a bowl with the 'Crimea' transfer, c1855.
A jug with an inscription for 1845, showing that this transfer plate was in use for quite some time.

Ball's Deptford Pottery – plate 1

This bowl from c1900 has the Scott Brothers plate 1 transfer shown above with an obliterated printed mark.  Ball's acquired many copper plates from both Wearside and Tyneside potteries as they closed, and continued to make 'Sunderland ware' into the 20th century.
Below, another similar, which has the 'Glide on My Bark' transfer also with an obliterated Scott mark.  NB, these marks were erased by Scott Brothers when they ceased to trade as Scott & Sons (see above), and not by Ball's.

Ball's Deptford Pottery – plate 2

Below is the Scott Brothers plate 2 transfer  It has the obliterated Scott mark, and beneath that a spurious mark 'Dixon & Co Sunderland'.  It appears that Ball's added the mark to deceive buyers into believing they were purchasing an older Garrison Pottery item.  The bowl contains a medley of Sunderland transfers, none of them from the Garrison Pottery.  NB the old Sunderland Bridge shown in the transfer would have been pulled down and replaced about 40 years before this bowl was made.  So despite being well over 100 years old and made in Sunderland, the bowl is technically a reproduction.

Here's another bowl with the transfer, but with the spurious mark trimmed off.  You can just see the tops of the letters.
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    • 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 - 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
    • 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... (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
  • Garrison Pottery puzzle jugs
  • Sewell Puzzle Jugs
  • Stockton Money Boxes
  • Stockton Pottery - Thomas Ainsworth
  • The Blue Flower Pottery
  • Warburton Transfers