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Chinese porcelain is important in the history of the development of transferware. Collection of Augustus the Strong now online…

Artist Lisa SantaMaria (“Sam and Tilly”) uses transferware shards to craft bespoke jewelry. Learn more and see examples of her beautiful work.…

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

Our apologies for the delay in mailing of the final 2023 bulletin. Unfortunately, printing and mailing delays occurred this time around. However, this 28 page edition (our lengthiest ever) has now been printed and delivered to the post office (U.S. Domestic…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

……… We make our pots of what we potters are”. Read more and see numerous examples in Dishy News - A Transferware Blog. Thanks to blogger Judie Siddall.…

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…

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…

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…

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.

Providence, RI October 21, 2018 - At the 2018 Transferware Collectors Club Annual Meeting, TCC Database General Editor Connie Rogers announced an important milestone achieved in September. Thanks to a team of dedicated volunteer Pattern Editors, the club's Database of Patterns and Sources now…

Paul Barker has been collecting Victorian bottles and pots for many years. He started with the relatively common Thomas Holloway pots, the Clarke's pots and the Poor Man's Friend pots from Dr. Roberts. Following his visits to specialist regional bottle fairs, he was able to find a few of the…