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Meeting Preview #2: A Day of Interesting Speakers and Workshops
Saturday, October 20
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A Day of Interesting Speakers and Workshops
The importation of British transferware to America is a fascinating topic that will be explored in depth at this year's TCC Annual Meeting. Our Keynote Speaker will be Dr. Neil Ewins, Senior Lecturer in Design History, University of Sunderland, UK, and author of "Supplying the Present Wants of Our Yankee Cousins...": Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market 1775-1880. Dr. Ewins has spent decades researching the topic and will present two lectures during the meeting. The second lecture will kick off a day of exciting speakers on Saturday.
We will dine at the Wharf Tavern, a traditional casual New England seafood restaurant on the water. The original wharf and surrounding buildings date back to the mid 1700's, used for rigging merchant and fishing boats. Wharf Tavern was established in 1955 and continues to be a destination for fine food and drink in a seaside atmosphere. Download Meeting Preview #2 with registration information included.
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2018 Meeting
in Providence, RI
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October 18-21, 2018
This year's Annual Meeting will focus on the marketing and exportation of transferware from Great Britain to North America. Our Keynote Speaker Dr. Neil Ewins, Senior Lecturer in Design History, University of Sunderland, UK, and author of Supplying the Present Wants of Our Yankee Cousins: Staffordshire Ceramics and the American Market 1775-1880, will be joined by an impressive line-up of experts presenting a wide variety of topics from maritime decoration on printed wares to Chinese export porcelain and its influence on British transferware. Download brochure and registration form.
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Pattern of the Month
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St. Cloud
Shown is a circa 1825 16.5 inch platter from the Fruit and Flower Border Series by Henshall & Co. (1790-1828). Visit the website to learn more information about this
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 Congratulations to Richard Halliday!
Long time TCC member Richard Halliday recently received his PhD from Manchester Metropolitan University. His doctoral research examined the role of the engraver in the transferware process. More information.
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New Book
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Historical Guide to Advertising Pot Lids
by R.J. Houghton, J. Layden, P. Taylor
Advertising pot lids can be found from many countries particularly English-speaking nations and are collected by a dedicated group of enthusiasts across the world. These fascinating transfer-printed ceramic containers often feature inventive designs as well as details of the individuals and companies that sold them. They were used to retail commodities such as tooth paste, cold cream, food pastes, hair preparations, ointments & salves, and a range of other products. The vast majority were originally thrown away after a single use and have been re-discovered over the past 50 years or so from the excavation of former rubbish tips. Get more information.
Printing supported by a TCC Paul and Gladys Richards Charitable Foundation Research Program grant.
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 San Francisco Ceramic Circle new Web Site
The San Francisco Ceramic Circle brings together ceramics enthusiasts with people broadly interested in visual arts. Their topics range from earthenware to porcelain, from traditional handcrafts to art studios to industrial production, and from antiquity to the present-everything on view at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and beyond. They emphasize Europe and North America, but many areas of historic and contemporary ceramics appear in their programs.
As an affiliate of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the SFCC sponsors public lectures at the Gunn Theater of the Legion of Honor. Speakers include curators, academic and independent scholars, artists, and collectors. Topics range from design and technique to social history. Visit the site.
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 Balancing Jugs
Image courtesy of Phil Rowley.
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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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ULLETIN TCC 2018 Number 1
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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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 James Madison's Montpelier Archaeology Expeditions
Montpelier announces its 2018 Excavation Expedition and Other Programs.
More information.
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Festival of Bottle Ovens / August & September 2018
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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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There are no auction listings at this time.
Please contact us if you are offering or know of an upcoming auction with an emphasis on transferware.
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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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Featured Books
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Tyneside Pottery
by R.C. Bell
This book includes information on and examples from over 100 potteries located in the northeast of England along the rivers Tyne, Wear and Tees. Get more information.
Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
by Robert Copeland
This is a lavishly illustrated, full colour, 186 page book. It displays the vast experience and knowledge the author has of the manufacturing processes of bone china and earthenware tableware, mainly as carried out in the Spode works.
Get more information.
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Featured Articles
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Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Public & Private Commemorative Printed Wares
by Arleen and Grahame Tanner
Very little has been written about the commemorative ware of the Cambrian Pottery, Swansea; the most informative lecture and subsequent paper was by P.D.Pryce in 1972. His remit, however, was much larger as he covered the commemorative ware of the Cambrian Pottery, the Glamorgan Pottery, Swansea and the South Wales Pottery at Llanelly. In general terms it seems that public commemorative pieces produced by the Cambrian Pottery tended to be early in date whilst the private commemorative pieces are of a later date. Of course there are exceptions to this. Public commemorative pieces are of major political, social, and royal events whereas private commemorative pieces take into the private lives of ordinary members of society, who they were, and what they did. Read this article.
Swansea's Printed Wares
A Re-assessment
by Jonathan Gray
This paper is based on two talks presented to the TCC meeting in Baltimore in October 2011. The views expressed are those of the author.
Founded in 1764, the Swansea (later to be renamed Cambrian) Pottery was in production for more than 100 years before closing in 1870. For the majority of this period, certainly the eighty years after 1790, printed wares were to be an important feature of the factor
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s output. Certainly after the production and decoration of Swansea porcelain had ceased in 1824/6, printed wares were the main, and at times, the only output of the firm.
Read this article.
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Information Websites and Blogs Listings!
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The Wedgwood Society of NSW
The Wedgwood Society of New South Wales is an appreciation group interested in the products of Josiah Wedgwood, FRS (1730-1795) and his successors to the present day. They are based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Members are from all over Australia and from other countries, with most resident in NSW. Visit the site.
Gladstone Pottery Museum
This website gives the history of the Gladstone Pottery. At this museum you can see a fully restored Stoke-on-Trent potbank from the days when coal-burning bottle ovens made the world's finest pottery. Five magnificent, towering bottle ovens in a unique setting, and a stunning industrial museum of the pottery industry showing the story of tiles, sanitaryware, ceramic colours, and all those supporting industries which are essential to a potbank. The most importnat group of buildings in Stoke-on-Trent.
Visit their site.
Find more of the informative resources we've compiled here.
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Transferware Collectors Club Gift Memberships
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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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