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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.

Transferware Journey in India was presented by TCC president Scott Hanson and TCC vice-president Michael Sack during the TCC 2020 Annual Meeting. The presentation shows historic source prints and transferware pieces depicting sites and monuments in India and current photos of the same sites and monuments. Scott, Michael and 11 other transferware collectors toured the sites in India early in 2020 and share insights and stories about the journey while discussing the transferware and source prints. Watch Video

Wedgwood 6” x 6” “October” tile is seen between “September” and “November.” The tile depicts a boy walking with a pig while two crows look on. Nineteenth century viewers would likely have understood that the pig was being taken to the butcher. October was associated with butchering as the weather was colder and the meat would not spoil quickly. Before the advent of refrigeration, butchering large animals was avoided during the hot months. 

Database Discoveries #2, TRANSFERWARE DARNING EGGS, by Judie Siddall

Read what led to the serendipitous discovery of the uses of the rare egg-shaped transfer printed objects that I have been fascinated by for years.

TWO NEWLY IDENTIFIED AMERICAN VIEWS ON HISTORICAL BLUE STAFFORDSHIRE by Hayden Goldberg

One of the greatest achievements in transfer printing in the last half of the 19th century was led by J. & M. P. Bell of Glasgow, Scotland.

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.

Intended as a reference guide to all presently discovered American Pot Lids known to date. The examples have been compiled from my own collection, in addition to numerous public sources and other generous collector postings through the past forty years. Listings include new size and color variants, as well as unlisted examples form both previously known and unknown merchants. Examples used have in numerous cases been photo - retouched to better represent original color, condition, and design for reference purposes. Please send updates, additions, and corrections to jkinsell@hotmail.com. this pdf version is available to view here for free. and also at: http://online.anyflip.com/mcjpw/uvck/mobile/index.html 100 pages.

This 17 inch by 13 inch platter features a pattern known as Beehive and Vases. It was made by Ralph Stevenson & Williams (1825-1827). For TCC members, this is pattern #3529 in the TCC Database of Patterns and Source.

Wedgwood Monthly Calendar Tiles as fireplace surrounds, printed monochrome and with color added. Many are in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources.

A Transferware Blog by Judie Siddall.

I have been told that yellow is the rarest color used for transfer printing. It is usually found printed with another color, and most of yellow print is found from the mid 1830s through the mid 1840s. I asked Robert Copeland why yellow print was rare, and he said it was a combination of taste and technology. 

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