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The Transferware Bibliography
Lists over 200 books pertinent to transferware collectors, as well as articles, newsletters and other source materials including websites.
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Index of All TCC Bulletin Content
(Fall 1999 - Winter 2008)
Detailed listing of all bulletin articles, categorized by subject matter, and specific to bulletin issue and page number.  An excellent transferware research resource.

Clubs and Information Websites

Museums and Places of Interest With Displays and Collections of Transfer Printed Pottery
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Museums with Major Collections of Ceramics
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.  Transferware is included in many of the entries.

Newly Available

Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Transferware II
Patterns and Borders
by Arleen and Grahame Tanner
This book has 220 pages with over 90 patterns and 420 color illustrations including Chinoiserie, Rural, Commemorative, Transitional, Sheet and previously unattributed.

The “Table of Contents” titled PATTERNS IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE makes the book easy to use as a reference. Also helpful are the Alphabetical List of patterns and the Alphabetical Index to Patterns with Relevant Marks (with a selection from Book 1).

Ordering Information:
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Price: 28 GBP plus shipping.

People & Pots
by Terence A. Lockett
Terry Lockett, the founder Chairman and a former President of the Northern Ceramic Society, is a freelance lecturer and writer who gave many talks over the past 40 or more years that involved a good deal of research, but were given just once and never recorded. This book is a compilation of material that reveals much about Terry’s life and also the societies and institutions with which he has been associated in the past 50 years. Topics include “Collecting – Delight or Disease?”, “The Antiques Roadshow”, and “William Ewart Gladstone: Prime Minister and Collector of Ceramics”.

Ordering Information:
Sole Distributor is Reference Works Ltd. Price: 19.90 GBP plus shipping; Email: .

Machin Porcelains and Earthenwares
by Bill Thom and Philip Miller
This new hardback book on Machin is based on many years of research on the Regency period factory that produced porcelains and earthen wares between 1805 and 1838. The book is 180 pages in length and contains over 950 color illustrations. The Introduction covers the history of the family and the factory.  The remainder consists of an illustrated guide to Machin wares including shapes of the various tea wares along with comparisons between Machin shapes and those of competitors of the period.  Also included is a partial reconstruction of the Machin pattern book with over 35% of the known patterns and 100 un-numbered patterns, ending with the known Bat prints used by Machin on tea wares and other pieces.

Ordering Information: 
This limited edition is now available on eBay for a “Buy It Now” price of  37.50 GBP plus shipping.  Direct EBAY link

The Glasgow Pottery of John and Matthew Perston Bell, China and Earthenware Manufacturers in Glasgow
by Henry E. Kelly'
Available for free at: http://www.bellsglasgowpottery.com
Numerous transferware references.

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