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Minton Archive Store Tours: Episode V - Oatcake & Pikelet
In this Stoke-on-Trent City Archives is Moving Store Tour our move is complete and we're taking a walk round our brand new…
Posted on the Stoke-on-Trent City Archive is Moving blog, the video below shows a time-lapse of the work to decant the Minton Archive’s Art & Design material from their original red and blue folio boxes – often referenced here, including as a virtual tower (almost 8 Minton peacocks high!) –…
Chinese porcelain is important in the history of the development of transferware. Collection of Augustus the Strong now online…
Thursday, January 18, 2024 1PM EST
Title: The Morse Collection of Historical ‘Old Blue’ Staffordshire at the American Antiquarian Society
Lecturer: Dr Anne Anderson FSA, Hon. Associate Professor Exeter University
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Journey to Staffordshire and London from October 8th to 14th with the Flow Blue International Collectors’ Club and Patricia Halfpenny, English ceramics expert and curator emerita at Winterthur! The tour will focus on the history of transferware production to better understand the origins of flow…
Congratulations to the Gladstone Pottery Museum for winning the Visit England Small Visitor Attraction of the Year award.
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The Transferware Collectors Club (TCC) is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new educational initiative: Transferware Worldwide - Lecture Series.
In a monthly program of online lectures, experts in the field of ceramics will present…
The San Francisco Ceramics Circle has prepared a list of Museums with Major Collections of Ceramics, available at the following link: http://www.patricianantiques.com/sfccmuseumlist.html. …
Classic pottery books from the turn of the (last) century featuring transferware are available (some for free) on the Net. Each is a must for serious collectors. All are occasionally available in the original edition; each has been subsequently reprinted. However, three of the four…
Candace Bahouth
A New Yorker of Italian-Lebanese descent, Candace Bahouth has lived for the past thirty years in a small village in Somerset in one of England's most unspoilt rural areas. Candace was originally known as a tapestry weaver, but now is better known for her…
1864-1871 Design Register
The UK National Archives has placed on-line various pottery (and other) patterns from the 1864-1871 Design Register. Transferware collectors may recognize some of the patterns.…
The Minton Company’s archive, consisting of tens of thousands of documents relating to company and factory life, was recently presented to the City of Stoke-on-Trent. The Welcome Home Minton display is now open to the public at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery. The display is a multimedia…
An appeal to Britain's high court to exclude the acclaimed Wedgwood ceramic collection and its prize-winning museum setting from the Wedgwood Company bankruptcy proceedings has failed. The High Court ruled in December that the Barlston attraction's artifacts were not held in trust and could,…
It has been 10 months since the historic Wedgwood Museum ceramic collection was saved. Now, a new museum housing the vast collection has opened to the public at the £34m World of Wedgwood attraction in Barlaston, Staffordshire. Note: we’ll be visiting the new museum as part of our upcoming…
Members Paul and Kath Holdway report that a temporary exhibition dedicated to the Spode factory, its people and products is planned to open later this year. With an aggressive July date for its opening in mind, the exhibition committee has appointed Susan Coates, of…
TCC President Loren Zeller prepared a letter regarding the threatened Willett Collection commemorative pottery display at Brighton Museum, England. Pottery enthusiasts are encouraged to contact the Brighton & Hove City Council and urge the council to ensure that this most valuable collection…
September 1st update to auction of this historic bible: the $10,000 opening bid was not attained, and the Bible, as of now, is unsold. Developments, if any, will be reported. More information on this remarkable item.
This extraordinary Deakin & Son 23.25” H jug sold on January 17, 2015 at Clars Auctions for $950. More Information.
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2019 TCC Research Grant Recipients
The Transferware Collectors Club, a US-based international non-profit organization dedicated to the study of British transfer-printed ceramics, is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 Paul and Gladys Richards Charitable Foundation Research Grants for…
In light of current estimates provided by the federal government that the Covid-19 pandemic could be with us well into the summer or longer, the TCC Board of Directors has voted to postpone the 2020 annual meeting, originally scheduled for October 15-18, until the following year. This decision…
The Transferware Collectors Club (TCC) has relaunched three important online exhibition sites with new functionality and content enhancements.
The enamel single-chambered muffle kiln at Gladstone Pottery Museum
Images and text provided by Terry Woolliscroft October 2019.
No two bottle ovens or kilns were the same. Many, almost all of them, were built without architects drawings or plans. They…
TCC President Scott Hanson likes to entertain with his hearth-cooked meals served in the transferware pattern unearthed around his 19th century house in Maine. Most of the transferware is Podmore Walker & Co. (later pieces in the pattern Wedgwood & Co.) "Venus" pattern. The soup tureen…
Smoke and the Clean Air Act 1956
Images and text provided by Terry Woolliscroft October 2019.
"This occasioned such immense and constant volumes of smoke, as literally to envelope the whole neighbourhood: and it was not infrequent for passengers to mistake their…
Only 15 of the beautiful TCC 20th Anniversary mugs remain. This may be your last chance to obtain one, or more. Cost is $20 each (which includes shipping and a slight profit to the TCC). Checks only, payable to the Transferware Collectors Club. Contact Frank Davenport at …
Single-Chambered Muffle Kiln
The enamel single-chambered muffle kiln at Gladstone Pottery Museum
Images and text provided by Terry Woolliscroft October 2019.
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