Early plaques
Click on the images to enlarge. Click on the sub-pages above to view individual plaques.
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.
|
| THE BEST OF ALL GOD IS WITH US.
THE REVD. JOHN WESLEY, A.M. FOUNDER OF THE, Wesleyan-Methodist Society ESTABLISHED 1739. |
| 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. |
|
Black and white plaques
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.
|
| Behold GOD
will not cast away a perfect man, neither will HE help the evil doers Job.8.20. |





