Description:

An earthenware plate printed underglaze in black with an advert for fly papers: "MATHER'S PATENT FLY PAPER PLATE / to hold / MATHER'S Chemical Fly Papers / for poisoning / FLIES, ANTS, MOSQUITOES. / Sold by all Chemists Everywhere. / W.MATHER / 14 BATH STREET / NEWGATE STREET LONDON E.C. / 19 HANGING DITCH & 109 CHESTER ROAD MANCHESTER / MANUFACTORY / Trentham St / HULME / MANCHESTER." Below are printed a Design Registry mark for 1867 and a version of the arms of Mather, including the motto of the Scottish branch of the family, "Fortiter et Celeriter."

The four holes in the plate are original and are for attaching a square fly-paper, as is shown in a newspaper advert for Mather's fly-papers.