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A rare pink lustre creamware election jug of Australian…
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Sydney
Date:
20-Nov-2011
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A rare pink lustre creamware election jug of Australian significance dated 1827, transfer printed in brown with bust portrait of Thomas Wentworth Beaumont M.P. For, the County of Stafford 1826 and flags declaring 'Beaumont for Ever' and 'Beaumont and Independency' also inscribed Joseph Marshall of Gunnerton, Northumberland and dated 1827 on a painted floral ground, probably north Shields pottery, 18 cm high. Note: Beaumont stood in the Alnwick Election of July 1826 and lost, quickly re standing in Stafford he was returned M.P. With 251 votes. Joseph Marshall was possibly a friend or employee of Beaumont, and lived at Manse farm, Northumberland. Interestingly Joseph Marshall was one of 299 convicts transported to van Diemen's Land on the convict vessel, the Marion on the 27th September 1847 after appearing at Northumberland, Newcastle and Tyne quarter assizes and being sentenced to 7 years exile. He later returned to, the Manse farm as there is a note in the London Gazette of 1879 relating to, the liquidation of his assets. 1181 convicts were transported on the Marion, for this voyage. Further voyages transporting convicts on the Marion were made to van Diemans Land in 1843, 1845 and 1847, a final voyage was made to Western Australia in 1851
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