Oddfellows memorabilia Jug
Staffordshire Jug with Oddfellows symbols and inscription.
Sprigged on decoration. Oddfellows' symbols: Cornucopia or horn of plenty, handshake, Snakes on a pole with wings.
Inscription on jug - John Ayre, Appleby. Loyal George Moore Lodge. Manchester Unity. Medway district. February 1845.
Refers to Lodge of Oddfellows based at the Moore Arms Appleby Parva.
Object Number: AMSJM:2006.4
Object Title: Oddfellows memorabilia Jug
Number of items: 1
Object Date: 1845
Associated era: 19th Century
Object Size:
height: 30 cm
width: 30cm
Material: Ceramics,Porcelain,Pottery
Type of Object: Decorative,Ornaments
Object Provenance:
Inscription suggests owned by John Ayre but no record found for him in Appleby.
Associations:
The Oddfellows was a friendly society which provided benefits for its members in cases of financial hardship or sickness. Its motto was 'Friendship, love and truth'.
The Loyal George Moore Lodge was the Appleby Branch. The Manchester Unity District had 90,000 members in 1838 in 1200 lodges across the country.
There were other Friendly Societies. An 1890 report in the Parish News says that the Original Friendly Society and the Loyal George Moore Lodge came together on the Monday of Whit Week to hold a joint club feast. They held a church service where William Bamber (headmaster of SJM school) preached and then processed, led by a band, to the Moore's Arms (now the Appleby Inn) for a substantial dinner.
(all information on a label for the jug when on display, text in a word file, filename: the oddfellows jug exhibit signs.
Object Maker:
Staffordshire pottery (no specific mark)
Place of Manufacture:
Staffordshire
Object Location:
Storeroom, Box 10? (conflict between Modes / Spreadsheet box 1?)
Currently in museum exhibition room display cabinet 3
Was in community gallery February 2017
