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Transferware Collectors Club (TCC) Announces Database Milestone
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The TCC Database of Patterns and Sources
Now Offers More Than 15,000 Patterns
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The TCC Database Editor Team members present at the announcement of 15,000 patterns recorded, during the 2018 Annual Meeting in Providence, RI.
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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 contains more than 15,000 patterns transfer-printed on British pottery and porcelain between 1760 and 1900, and over 1,000 print and ceramic designs identified as sources for selected patterns. All entries have been carefully researched and documented by experts in the field.
This online database can be used on most computer, tablet and mobile phone formats. It provides users with easy online access to an invaluable source of information about transfer-printed patterns and their sources. Patterns can be searched by Pattern (and Series) Names, Maker's Names, Maker's Marks, Pattern Categories, Borders, Predominant Features, and by the Print and Ceramic Sources that inspired them. TCC members are able to access the full database with their login and password, and are able to print, download and share pattern records of interest.
Current TCC members enjoy full access to the database as a benefit of their membership. Non-members can access and utilize the database for a limited 24-hour period for just $10. For users who then wish to become TCC members, the $10 access fee will be applied to the full-year membership. Both Household and Business/Institutional Memberships are available. This robust and ever-growing database has become a valuable resource for archaeologists, ceramic researchers, collectors, curators, dealers, and historians. For more information, go to: www.transcollectorsclub.org/tware/utility.php
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Membership Renewals
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The Membership renewals will be mailed mid-November. Please ease the work of our member chair by renewing promptly. Note: as previously announced, members received an automatic (and free) six-month extension from July 1 in order to facilitate our switching to a January-December membership year. Please remember to donate to the TCC when you renew. Donations are used for our educational programs.
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Transferware Collectors Club Gift Memberships
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NEW Bulletin
TCC 2018 Number 2
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Read the issue's featured article Anatomy of Tiles By Connie Rogers. Members, read the entire issue here.
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New Book
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CHINOISERIE: Printed British Ceramics in the Chinese Style 1750-1900
by Richard Halliday and Loren Zeller
TCC members Richard Halliday and Loren Zeller have just published a new book titled CHINOISERIE: Printed British Ceramics in the Chinese Style 1750-1900. The book is now available for purchase. It is a hardcover, 416-page book, 270 x 210 mm (10.6 x 8.27 in), with over 1450 colour images. Published by Gomer Publishing, South Wales. Generous support from the TCC Richards Foundation Research Grant Program helped to make this book possible. Get more information.
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Keynote Presentations from the 2018 Annual Meeting by Dr. Neil Ewins now available.
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"Supplying the Present Wants of Our Yankee Cousins...": Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market 1775-1880, by Neil Ewins
download pdf.
Origins, Backgrounds and Cultural Identities of American Importers and Dealers, by Neil Ewins download pdf.
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2018 Meeting
in Providence, RI
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This year's annual meeting in Providence RI has just ended with rave reviews. Members enjoyed a day-trip to the Mystic Seaport Museum, the nation's leading maritime history museum and home to many historic wooden vessels and tall ships, including the Charles W. Morgan. The visit included lectures by the Museum Curator Fred Calabretta and TCC Keynote Speaker Dr. Neil Ewins. The group returned to Providence for two more days of informative lectures, activities, and the Sunday Transferware Sale. Watch for a full report many images from the meeting.
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Transferware Recorder News
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Issue 15
A warm welcome to Issue Fifteen of the
Recorder News
. It contains one New Discovery and an interesting mark to whet the appetite. Read Issue 15.
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Seeking Facebook Editor
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The TCC Facebook page will be losing one of our editors at the end of the year. We need one new editor, someone who will conscientiously add several new entries to our page each week. It's fun, educational, and you will contribute to the continued success of our club. Contact Judie Siddall: jrsiddall@gmail.com
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Pattern of the Month
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"Oriental Scenery" series
Shown is a 6.625 inch plate in John Hall (& Sons), 1814-1832, "Oriental Scenery" series. Visit the website to learn more information about this
pattern
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Transferware on Portobello Road, London
There IS transferware on Portobello Road, one just has to search a bit harder than in the past. Presentations differ. Yes, we know, not much in the second image. But that's part of the point.
Click on image for larger version.
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Please submit your favorite transferware related photo (excluding images of actual pottery pieces) to the TCC Web Administrator:
webadmin@transcollectorsclub.org
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Please Help with the Following
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The Database Needs Editors
Do you love a good mystery? Do you fancy yourself to be a Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple? If your answer is "yes", then you are the perfect candidate to join the ranks of TCC Database Detectives!
Download more information.
New Database Discoveries Articles Needed
Please contact the web administrator with suggestions or contributions of future Database Discoveries articles. See Database Discoveries archives.
Contributions Needed for Bulletin
Bulletin editor Michael Weinberg is seeking contributions for the upcoming bulletin. For more information and to contact Michael, link here.
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Classified Advertisements
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Sold Through Website Classified Advertisement
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We are now accepting simple classified (not display) advertisements from TCC member transferware dealers as well as non-dealer members. There is no charge for this member service. Following are the criteria:
- Limited to three quality images of item(s) for sale or example(s) of an item(s) you wish to purchase.
- Include a very short description paragraph, including a link to your website and/or email address.
- Dealers must be TCC members, limited to once/year maximum.
- Requests will be processed in the order received, and there is no guarantee as to when your ad will be posted.
- The TCC Web Administrator at his/her discretion has the right to reject inappropriate or inadequate submittals.
To view examples:
http://www.transcollectorsclub.org/classifieds.html
Contact:
webadmin@transcollectorsclub.org
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Please contact us if you are offering or know of an upcoming auction with an emphasis on transferware.
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Dining by Design: Nature Displayed on the Dinner Table Exhibit
April 2, 2018 - January 6, 2019
Winterthur Museum,Garden & Library
Click on image for enlarged view.
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Henrywood's Highlights #35 of an Ongoing Series
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A series of classical figure patterns made by G.L. Ashworth & Bros. of Hanley. Most of the figures are derived from Flaxman's illustrations to Homer's Iliad, hence the title adopted here.
More information.
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Featured Books
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Dated in Blue: Underglaze Blue Painted Earthenware 1776 - 1800
by Lois Roberts
Dated in Blue is a catalogue of dated underglaze blue painted earthenware, both creamware and pearlware, from 1776 to 1800. One hundred and ninety four examples are featured, the majority of which are illustrated and published for the first time.
Get more information.
Miles Mason Patterns & Shapes
Velma Young, editor
This is a 160 page, B5 size, full color monograph featuring studies of all known numbered and unnumbered patterns.
Get more information.
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Featured Articles
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Two newly identified American Views o
n Historical Blue Staffordshire
by Hayden Goldberg
For nearly half a century collectors and scholars have puzzled over the identity of the buildings depicted in the scenes transfer printed on the teapot shown in Figure 1, and on various other parts of the tea set to which it belongs. Until now, the maker of the set had also not been documented.
The question of the buildings' identity first arose when the views, transfer printed on another teapot, were illustrated in ANTIQUES in September 1938.
Read this article.
The "Uva" Mystery
Database Discoveries - Contribution # 21, October 2015
 The talents of master detectives like Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, and Miss Marple are often needed to decipher the mysteries of transferware patterns. As the Floral and Botanical editor for the TCC database, I channel their skills whenever possible and try to emulate their thorough investigatory techniques.
Recently, one such mystery presented itself in the form of an eBay listed earthenware tankard, transfer printed in blue (Figs. 1, 2).
Read this article.
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Information Websites and Blogs Listings!
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American Ceramic Circle
The ACC was founded in 1970 as a non-profit educational organization committed to the study and appreciation of ceramics. Its purpose is to promote scholarship and research in the history, use, and preservation of ceramics of all kinds, periods, and origins.
Visit the site.
H & R Daniel
This site shows the skills of Henry Daniel and his son Richard who had ascended to such heights that the porcelain products they were producing in the late Regency and early Victorian period were being eagerly acquired by the wealthiest of the nation's gentry, and even Royalty.
Visit their site.
Find more of the informative resources we've compiled here.
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Over 60,000 International Visitors Have Enjoyed These Transferware Exhibition Web Sites Co-Sponsored by the TCC!
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Database of Patterns & Sources Count
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Gift Memberships Now Available
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Results of Auctions and Classified Advertisements on the TCC Website and eNews
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