Dear TCC eNews Readers: We're pleased to send you the latest edition of our monthly e-newsletter informing you of up-coming club activities and interesting new content on
our web site and our
Facebook page. We welcome your comments, suggestions, and input; please send to: TCC Web Content Administrator
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We place new or important TCC announcements, transferware news, and events listings at the top, but there is a world of value to the middle and bottom of our eNews. We rotate new entries every month to our regular features, including Featured Books, Featured Articles, and Information Websites and Blogs. So, please, page down and sample our monthly offerings.
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TCC Annual Meeting: Birmingham, AL
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Registration for the Annual Meeting in Birmingham has now closed. However, should you still wish to participate, please contact Annual Meeting Co-Chair Leslie Bouterie (email:
[email protected]) to determine space availability. Every effort will be made to accommodate late registrants.
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We are saddened to hear of the death of Bill Kurau. Bill was one of the original members of the Transferware Collectors Club. We shall miss his support, encyclopedic knowledge, and generosity. Click on the link to see Bill's obituary from Antiques and the Arts Weekly:
Obit
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November 15 & 16
37th Semi-Annual Americana & Fine Antiquest Auction
Jeffrey S. Evans and Associates
Link to their site.
Day One will have some outstanding transferware items featuring many picturesque American and English countryside scenes. Some of the fantastic pieces include a covered soup tureen featuring Enoch Wood's Sporting Series with "Camel" pattern (database #3568) and rabbit ladle, a 21 ¾" x 17 ½" platter with "Picturesque Views New York Hudson River" (database #9167), and numerous plates including one with pattern "Mitchell & Freeman's China and Glass Warehouse, Chatham Street, Boston" (database #5452). The complete catalog will be posted by approximately November 5.
Click on thumbnails to see larger images)
Please contact us if you are offering or know of an upcoming auction with an emphasis on transferware.
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American Ceramic Circle Annual Symposium
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Registration is open for the 2019 American Ceramic Circle Annual Symposium, held this year with the extraordinary ceramics community around Old Salem Museum & Gardens / MESDA. The symposium includes a 2 day speaking program of national and international ceramics scholars, artists, and collectors, as well as immersive experience with the world's most comprehensive collection of ceramics made in the early American South. Before and after the symposium there are optional bus trips to regional highlights--Seagrove, NC and the Mint Museum.
Registration, which includes the full program, admission to museums and Old Salem historic sites, as well as transportation, coffees, lunches, and a celebratory barbecue dinner, is available
directly through the website, or on the forms attached.
Please direct any questions to Emily Campbell, Administrator for the American Ceramic Circle at
[email protected]
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Tile Display of the Month - Examples from the TCC Database
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Quartered Blue Flowers and Leaves
Quartered Blue Flowers and Leaves Pattern #18206. Maw & Co.,
Jackfield, Shropshire, c. 1874-95.
The tile is 6 inches and printed in shades of blue.
The pattern has a TCC Assigned Name. This four part tile has a flower motif, turned two different directions and a leaf motif that has a stem with leaves that weaves from left top to lower right in the center of the design. There is a single vine that circles around the flower in the section next to each leaf motif. When groups of tiles are formed, we see the leaf stem weaving vertically back and forth in the center of each tile all the way down to the bottom of the display. We see it here in a group of 4 and a larger group of 16 tiles.
More information.
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Pattern of the Month
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Retreat from Waterloo
Shown is a 10 inch soup plate made by Copeland & Garrett (1833-1847). It is titled on the front of the plate, "Retreat from Waterloo," and is part of the Wellington Series.
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J. & G. Meakin, Eastwood Works, Stoke-on-Trent, England
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Please submit your favorite transferware related photo (excluding images of actual pottery pieces) to the TCC Web Administrator: [email protected]
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Inside the Head of a Collector
Neuropsychological Forces at Play
by Shirley M. Mueller, MD
Publisher: Lucia Marquand
Hardcover $40 Purchase on Amazon
- Introduces neuro- and behavioral economics for collectors and art professions to help them understand their own decision making
- Brings a unique collector's perspective, providing insight for art dealers, collectors, and museum professionals. Includes artworks and objects that have never been published before
- Chronicles the exhibit Elegance from the East: New Insights into Old Porcelain, which was one of the first museum exhibits to use a neuropsychological approach
- Examines Order of Cincinnati fakes versus authentic articles, with photos to demonstrate.
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Bulletin
TCC 2019 Number 2
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Henrywood's Highlights an Ongoing Series
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 Highlight Number Thirty-Seven
Everard, Colclough & Townsend
The little-known and short-lived firm of Everard, Colclough & Townsend worked in Longton, probably from about 1840 through to the end of June 1845. At the time of writing, the TCC database has no records of any wares from the factory - possibly they had little trade with America - but they certainly made some distinctive transferware jugs. More information. Visit the Article Archives.
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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 Richard Halliday is seeking contributions for the upcoming bulletin. Contact Richard, at [email protected].
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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:
[email protected]
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Featured Books
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Cleaning Historic Transferware
Antique transferware collector Scott T. Hanson shares his process for removing grime and under-glaze stains from historic Staffordshire transferware dishes. Using close-up photographs and clear text, the process is illustrated and described using two examples. After ten years of trial and error and experimentation, Hanson has developed a method that will remove the deepest stains from virtually any piece of glazed transferware, returning pieces to the bright colors and clean white backgrounds they had when they left the Staffordshire potteries in the 19th century.
Link to the book.
Ynysmeaudwy and the Williamses
by Mike Trew
This is the tale of a small potworks begun and run by a family of Cornishmen in a bleak outpost of the upper Swansea valley. Right from the start, its relative isolation from the other Swansea potteries ensured it an air of mystery which, in the years following its demise, assumed an almost mythical status.
Get more information.
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Featured Articles
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 Did Benjamin Franklin invent transferware?
By Wendy W. Erich
ON 3RD NOVEMBER 1773 Benjamin Franklin (1706-90) wrote a letter to Peter Perez Burdett, a young engraver then based in Liverpool, thanking him for sending his recently produced specimen of transfer-printed chinaware. Following words of appreciation and encouragement for the china, the elder statesman then makes an astonishing claim that he himself had pursued his idea for transferring pictures to pottery more than twenty years earlier, only to be laughed at by the English pottery trade. The invention of transferware pottery has been subject to academic dispute, but credit was ultimately bestowed on John Brooks as the creator and John Sadler, of Sadler & Green, Liverpool, as the developer of the transfer-print- ed style that revolutionised the surface decoration of ceramics for the following two hundred years. However, the importance to ceramic history of this 1773 letter written by Franklin has been overlooked.
Read this article.
Don't Believe Everything You Read on that Plate
Database Discoveries - Contribution # 11 Transferware Collectors Club September 2013
It's a painful thing to have to admit, because we all love our dishes and want to be able to trust them. However, the plain truth is that for almost two centuries, some of them have been deceiving their owners. We read the pattern marks and naturally take it for granted that what is printed there is accurate, but alas, that's not always the case. Perhaps some would think this is not an issue of the greatest importance, for just as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, so a mismarked pattern is just as pleasing to the eye. Still, lest we forget that Staffordshire potters were not always above a bit of gentle skullduggery, here we look at some examples from the database that are in fact "ringers" inserted into series of views bearing a place name. When marked, it is with the series name, but they aren't identified individually.
Read this article.
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Clubs and Information Websites & Blogs
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Friends of Blue
Friends of blue was formed over 40 years ago and offers an opportunity for beginners and experts alike to share their interest in printed pottery.
Visit the site.
The Potteries Bottle Oven
This site tells you everything you want to know about Bottle Ovens, their history, types, construction and how to fire. 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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