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This year's video tour will explore the transferware collection at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont. Founded in 1947, the 45-acre museum's historic buildings and contemporary galleries feature the wide-ranging collections of Electra Havermeyer Webb (1888-1960). Mrs. Webb created something completely unprecedented for her time: world-class collections in a village-like setting of historic New England buildings and landscapes. The collections include American folk art, French Impressionist paintings, historic New England architecture, New England furniture, duck decoys, circus animals, dolls, and ceramics. Our tour will focus on transferware but also provide glimpses of a lot more!

The Business Meeting will include updates on all the club's activities, including a brief report on the 2026 TCC England Tour, and a launch announcement for the AI Pattern Match tool for the Database. Get the zoom link.

Folio Friday is an opportunity for them to share some of the amazing artwork found within The Minton Archive’s folios with you. On the first Friday of every month they pick out a special piece of artwork from the Minton company catalogue’s Art & Design section and highlight it on the blog. The Minton Archive Folio Friday features a tile which is included in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources, Pattern #13985. View the Archive page.

Miranda Goodby, UK
Auctions, Re-sale, Hiring and Thefts: The Trade in Copperplate Designs in North Staffordshire c.1795-c.1920.

Grayson Hawthorn, USA
Cataloging and Analysis of British Transferware in Western Massachusetts Historical Collections.

V&A Wedgwood Collection, UK
Cataloguing thirty volumes of patterns and correspondence relating to American Commemorative transferware produced by Wedgwood during 1930s - 1960s.

Read their research abstracts