December Feature Articles

#6 - What’s in a Word: Vocabulary Discoveries from Transfer-Printed Advertising Ware by David Hoexter

It's amazing what one can learn from transferware and the examples included in our Database. English 19th century advertising product containers and other ware contain a wealth of vocabulary or word usage which I have never heard before. Often related to medicinal products, these words offer the 21st century observer a chance to impress friends, business associates, doctors (not surprisingly, many of the words are medical in origin), and others in our everyday life. Read this article.

Where do Patterns come from? or Who decided Delaware looked like this? by Pat Halfpenny

It is admittedly a random assortment of printed pottery but it isn’t what is on the front, but what is on the back of many of them, that provides some insight into the subject. Read this article.