Brown Lustre 9½” Bowl - 'Sailors Farewell'

Classification:- Plate/Dish/Bowl

Inside:-

Design very faint. Bottom a full rigged ship. On sides

1. 'The Iron bridge over the Wear.

2. "Be wise then Christian

While you may

For swiftly time is flying

The thoughtless man who laughs today

Tomorrow may be dying."

3. "Now safe returned from dangers

With joy I hail the shore

And fear no more the tempests

Nor Oceans angry roar."

Outside:-

The Sailors farewell - Design as 1927/50 but crudly cloured in green, red and yellow.

On reverse written in a wreath of flowers

"Women make men love,

Love makes them sad,

Sadness makes them drink,

And drinking makes them mad."

9½”

Stouter than usual.

Very crazed but sound.

1927/51