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                                                                                        Early plaques

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                                                                                        Black and yellow plaques

                                                                                        Twelve black and yellow plaques, all without makers' marks. I've heard of a similar 'Prepare to Meet Thy God' with a Dixon, Phillips & Co back stamp. The verse 'But One Thing is Needful' (Luke X, 42) inspired the sermon, 'The One Thing Needful', by the preacher C H Spurgeon, 15 October 1871.

                                                                                        The verses transcribed below.  
                                                                                         
                                                                                        These plaques have a pottery 'tab' and two holes for hanging. I've seen them variously attributed, depending on the colour of their border: black and yellow, as Staffordshire; black and red/puce as Yorkshire or Scotland; and pink lustre as Sunderland.  Some versions have a puce outer border/hanging tab and black inner border. 'Forgive, and ye shall be forgiven' is a different size. 
                                                                                           
                                                                                         
                                                                                        Except ye repent,
                                                                                        ye shall all
                                                                                        likewise perish

                                                                                        LUKE XIII..5.
                                                                                        If ye love MEE,
                                                                                        keep my
                                                                                        COMMANDMENTS.

                                                                                        John XIV.15.
                                                                                        THE BEST OF ALL GOD IS WITH US.
                                                                                        THE REVD. JOHN WESLEY, A.M.
                                                                                        FOUNDER OF THE,
                                                                                        Wesleyan-Methodist Society
                                                                                        ESTABLISHED 1739.



                                                                                        PREPARE
                                                                                        TO MEET THY
                                                                                        GOD.
                                                                                        HE THAT BELIEVETH
                                                                                        SHALL BE SAVED.

                                                                                        ADAM CLARKE, L.L.D.F.S.A.
                                                                                        WESLEYAN MINISTER.

                                                                                        Thou shalt not
                                                                                        take the name of
                                                                                        the LORD thy GOD
                                                                                        in vain

                                                                                        EXO..XX..7


                                                                                        SWIFTLY SEE EACH MOMENT FLIES,
                                                                                        SEE AND LEARN BE TIMELY WISE,
                                                                                        EVERY MOMENT SHORTENS DAY,
                                                                                        EVERY PULSE BEATS LIFE AWAY,
                                                                                        THUS THY EVERY HEAVING BREATH,
                                                                                        WAFT THEE ON TO CERTAIN DEATH,
                                                                                        SEIZE THE MOMENTS AS THEY FLY,
                                                                                        KNOW TO LIVE AND LEARN TO DIE.

                                                                                        But one
                                                                                        thing is needful:

                                                                                        As I live. saith
                                                                                        the LORD GOD. I
                                                                                        have no pleasure in the
                                                                                        death of the wicked

                                                                                        EZE.XXXIII..11
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                                                                                        Black and white plaques

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                                                                                        Brightly coloured plaques

                                                                                        A group of brightly coloured plaques. None with makers marks.  The text on the circular black and red plaque (middle right) reads 'THOU GOD SEEST MEE' and gives the reference 'Gen XVI.. 13.' The verse on the circular puce and blue plaque in the centre (beginning Thou shalt not...) is an identical transfer to the one transcribed above.  

                                                                                        The other three verses transcribed below.
                                                                                        Twelve plaques with green decoration.  There is a tendency to attribute all plaques with green flecked brushstrokes to Maling.  However, it isn't clear why a pottery would nearly always mark some plaques, but never others. The top three circular plaques have the semicircular impressed 'MALING' mark. The middle left plaque too, with an impressed flower above the mark. None of the other plaques is marked. The larger Maling plaques have the banner 'O LORD IN THEE HAVE I PUT MY TRUST LET ME NEVER BE CONFOUNDED'. The two Wesleys and 'SEEK YE THE LORD' have borders moulded with leaves.


                                                                                          
                                                                                        FORGIVE,
                                                                                        and ye shall be
                                                                                        FORGIVEN.
                                                                                        LUKE VI 37
                                                                                        GOD
                                                                                        be merciful to me a
                                                                                        SINNER
                                                                                        LUKE XVIII.. 13.
                                                                                        Behold GOD
                                                                                        will not cast away
                                                                                        a perfect man, neither
                                                                                        will HE help the
                                                                                        evil doers
                                                                                        Job.8.20.
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