Dear Transferware Enthusiasts:
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Save the Dates
Details will be announced soon.
October 15/16 TCC in San Francisco Bay Area, CA
October 22 at Old Deerfield, MA
Please make your own arrangements soon if you need overnight accommodations, as October is a busy season for tourism.
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A Special Thank You to all TCC Donors!
Every year, many TCC members choose to make a tax-deductible donation to our club. These donations are used to support our many educational activities which include the Bulletin, the Pattern & Source Print Database, and Research Grants, among others. Here is our 2021 Donor Honor Roll.
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American Historical Transferware Collection of Nick Routson
Jeffrey S. Evans and Associates
June 24, 2022
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Jeffrey S. Evans and Associates will present part three of the American historical transferware collection of Nick Routson, Phoenix, AZ on June 24 at their gallery in Mt. Crawford, VA. The third installment of this comprehensive collection features many rare forms and patterns including the State Arms platters for Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and a large Four Medallion jug depicting Erie Canal views. The complete catalogue will be posted around June 10. Bidding is available in house, by absentee and telephone, as well as live bidding through several internet sites. Visit their website for more information. Call 540.434.3939 or email info@jeffreysevans.com. Visit Jeffrey S. Evans and Associate
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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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Bristol Views
Six pieces in the Bristol Views Series from the Gestler Collection. This series, which shows various views along the River Avon, was first made by Pountney & Allies (1816–1835), Bristol, Gloucestershire and continued by their successors Pountney & Goldney (1836–1849).
Clockwise from upper left, meat platter printed with "Bristol Hot Wells, on the Avon, with Steam Packets" from an aquatint source print by E. Wallis, c. 1823; bowl with “Bristol,” source print unidentified; platter with “Bristol” a wider version of the previous view; platter with “Clifton,” no source print identified for this view of a suburb of Bristol; plate with "St Vincent's Rocks," no source print identified for this view along the River Avon towards Bristol; and platter with "View Near Bristol, River Avon" from an 1821 lithograph by Francis Nicholson. Additional views in this series can be found in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources. Go to the Puzzle.
Thanks to Scott Hanson for preparing the "Puzzle of the Month."
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Gainsboro
Shown is a 10.375 inch soup plate from the “Gainsboro” series. Each pattern in the series depicts a different variety or variation of fruit in the Aesthetic style. The TCC Database of Patterns and Sources includes 13 Gainsboro patterns, and this one is #12. The DB entry identifies the fruit as peaches; we think they are plums! The series was made by Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co. (1862-1904) for the French market. More information.
Image credit: Aesthetic Antiques
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Thanks to David Hoexter for preparing the "Pattern of the Month."
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Flora Reitman Rabinovitch
Long-time TCC member Flora Reitman Rabinovitch passed away in Seattle, Washington on April 7, 2022 at the age of 95. Members who attended the 2012 Annual TCC Meeting in Seattle will remember the visit to her retirement home near downtown Seattle to view her wonderful collection of blue and white transferware. Flora was also a gracious host to visits of TCC members in her previous home overlooking Lake Washington.
Flora was wife of the late John Reitman and the late Dr. B. Seymour Rabinovitch. Inspirational and loving mother of three and grandmother of five. And friend to many. Flora was born in New Jersey. She was a BFA graduate of Ohio State. Flora moved to NYC in the 40's and worked as a pattern designer for McCall’s. In the 50's she married John Reitman and raised their three children in Montreal where she flourished as a mother and as an artist. After being widowed, in the 80's Flora married Dr. B. Seymour Rabinovitch and moved to Seattle where she became an honoured patron of the arts and an accomplished 20th century American jeweller. Flora's work is included in collections at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Smithsonian, the Tacoma Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
For many years Flora and Seymour frequently visited the U.K. where they enjoyed living in a charming flat with a distinctive blue and white motif. Over the years they made many friends and were active in Friends of Blue and other groups that were dedicated to the study of English transferware.
Flora pursued each stage of her life with complete commitment. She lived her life fully and appreciated all that Life and Love had to offer. She will be missed as a great matriarch of her family.
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The Adams Lancaster Tankard: A collector's guide
Hardcover by Mr Peter Walters (Author), Mr Jon Adkin (Photographer)
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This book is intended as an illustrated guide to the little-known Lancaster Tankard produced by the William Adams potteries over a period of some 100 years. It will give intending collectors and dealers the information they need about the patterns used on the tankard, together with a rarity and pricing structure not currently available anywhere else.The book is grounded on market experience over many years, backed up by research into the original Adams archives held at the V&A Wedgwood Collection at Barlaston in Staffordshire. Link to book.
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Uncommon Copeland - Images Sought
In assembling volumes of The Transferware Recorder some series of views have proved elusive. Prominent amongst them are two series made by Copeland & Garrett, not a factory you would think to hide any lights under bushels. They are the firm’s so-called Arabesque series of English views and their “Continental Views” series showing scenes across Europe. More information/photos.
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The Northern Ceramic Society exhibition at the Potteries Museum includes an amazing array of members’ pottery and porcelain, and is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue. The Summer School explores the themes. The exhibition closes on September 4, 2022. Summer School is August 24-27, 2022 at Chester University. More info.
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Bulletin TCC 2022 Number 1
The TCC Bulletin Index -- incorporating listings of articles from the Fall 1999 issue through to the most recent issue. A rich resource! Search Index.
Bulletin editor is seeking contributions for the upcoming bulletin. Contacts:
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SEEKING BULLETIN SUBMITTALS
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The TCC Bulletin editor seeks submittals to future editions, particularly from first time or occasional authors. We have an extremely knowledgeable member base, yet many of our members seldom or never share their knowledge, at least in printed form. Now is your chance. Bulletin submittals do not need to be extremely technical or lengthy. They just need to be interesting and relate to British transferware! And they need to be accompanied by quality images. We would especially welcome articles from our growing number of archaeologist members.
Don’t fret if you have little experience. We will be pleased to work with you, to formulate your concept and bring your article along. Simply send us your ideas, if that is where you are, or text, even in preliminary form, if you are further along. Please submit in MS Word format, and separately, images in png, pdf or jpeg format. Please do NOT convert to PDF. Don’t worry if this is a problem for you; we’ll work with you to bring your article from preliminary to final, printed, stage, no matter your level of computer and word processes experience.
Suggested topics:
- Your favorite transferware piece, either your own or displayed elsewhere (why is it your favorite?, how did you acquire it?, what is the pattern, maker if known?).
- What is your favorite place to view transferware: museum? stately home? Historic or archaeological site?
- Tell (and show) us your own collection (really good pictures required).
- New discoveries.
- Archaeological sites: overall summary of the excavation as relates to transferware; discuss a particular pattern or piece; context/importance of the transferware.
- In-depth research of a pattern, series, maker.
Contacts:
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TRANSFERWARE WORLDWIDE LECTURE SERIES
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Thursday, July 28, 2022 – 1PM (Eastern time)
Two Worlds in One Shipwreck
Lecturer: Wytze Stellingwerf, Archaeologist and Specialist of Late and Post-Medieval Material Culture, Archeologie West-Friesland
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Description: In 2005 members of the Texel diving club discovered a shipwreck in the Dutch Wadden Sea, loaded with early 19th-century luxury items and tools related to slavery. A decade later extensive archival research was undertaken on this wreck, which resulted in a match: the Pieter Anthony, a frigate destined for the sugar plantations in the Dutch colonies of Surinam and Berbice, located in the northeast of South America. The Pieter Anthony, which departed from Amsterdam in November 1822, sunk only a month later during a storm in the Wadden Sea near the isle of Texel. The ship would never reach its tropical destiny on the other side of the Atlantic. Most of its inventory remained on the seafloor until the wreck was discovered by Dutch divers almost two centuries later. The inventory included lots of British transfer-printed tea wares and other luxurious goods meant for plantation owners in the Western colonies. Apart from that, the divers also found numerous machetes, spades, and hoes, as well as several “kapa’s” – sugarcane kettles – for the production of sugar through slave labor. In recent years the global discussion on the colonial past of Western countries has really brought this unparalleled slavery-related shipwreck inventory to attention. In his lecture, Wytze shall focus on the spectacular amount of transferware that was retrieved from the wreck.
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Our speaker: Wytze Stellingwerf (1992, MA) graduated at Leiden University in 2017 for the Masters in Historical Archaeology and currently works as an archaeologist and ceramics specialist of the late- and post-Medieval period in the town of Hoorn in the northern part of the Netherlands. In addition, he regularly works at Museum Kaap Skil on the Dutch isle of Texel, where he documents finds from shipwrecks done by sport divers in the Wadden Sea and North Sea. Wytze has a keen interest in the rise of the Industrial Revolution and its material and sociocultural impact in Western Europe and America, especially in the 18th and 19th centuries. Furthermore, the maritime and colonial past of the Netherlands are among his greatest interests. One of the most spectacular cases Wytze worked on the past years is the documentation of the comprehensive inventory of the early 19th-century Pieter Anthony shipwreck.
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Join Zoom Meeting on Thursday, July 28, 2022
1PM New York (EDT)
Meeting ID: 819 8952 0399
Passcode: 852563
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Past Lectures
All of our past lectures, dating back to September 2020, have been recorded and are available to current TCC members on the TCC website. Member login required. TCC website.
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LECTURE SERIES INVITATION
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San Francisco Ceramic Circle
Sunday, June 19, 11:00 a.m. Pacific time
Toshiko Takaezu: Abstract Expressionist Modern Ceramic Art
Jeffrey Spahn, Private Art Dealer and Author
About the speaker: Jeffrey Spahn is a private art dealer specializing in 20th century masters of studio pottery and ceramic sculpture. He has contributed to Studio Potter, Ceramics Monthly, Yunomi: A studio pottery collector’s guide, and recently, The Art of Toshiko Takaezu and Chris Gustin Wood fired Ceramics. He owns and operates Jeffrey Spahn Gallery, an on-line re-sale gallery for collectors and sellers at www.jeffreyspahn.com.
About the talk: Toshiko Takaezu (1922-2011) began her ceramic career in her native Hawaii. In her 30s she studied at the Cranbrook Academy and briefly but crucially in Japan. She then helped lead the move to ceramics as abstract sculpture. She taught at several schools before a 25-year tenure at Princeton. She received a Hawaii Living Treasure Award and 5 honorary doctorates, and her work is in at least forty American museums.
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Join Zoom Meeting on Sunday, June 19, 2022
11 AM Pacific time
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Please contact us if you are offering or know of an upcoming lecture
with an emphasis on transferware.
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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; these were typical of the methods used throughout the pottery industry and should be of interest to all people involved with pottery and porcelain, whether as collectors, customers or dealers. More information.
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Spode Transfer Printed Ware, first published in 1983, has now been extensively enlarged and revised, listing and illustrating every known transfer print issued by the Spode family at their Works in Stoke-on-Trent. More than 100 additional prints have been discovered since 1983. More information.
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CLUB & INFORMATION WEBSITE
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Oxford Ceramics Group
They cover all aspects of ceramics from the 17th century to the 20th century, and our members have a wide range of interests. The group organises study days, lectures and visits throughout the year which are carefully designed to provide members with stimulating material of the highest quality. Lecturers are amongst the leading authorities in their fields of study. On study days the group usually arranges handling sessions where lecturers are at hand to answer questions. Visit the site.
Potteries of Trenton NJ Society
The Potteries of Trenton Society's (POTS) mission is to promote the study and appreciation of Trenton’s ceramic industry by: gathering and preserving information related to the industry, sponsoring research projects, seminars and conferences, and promoting industry-related heritage tourism activities. Visit the site.
Find more of the informative resources we've compiled here.
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A Membership List updated in March 2022 is now available (for members only and only for non-commercial use). Download now. Please review your entry on the list, and notify us of any changes in your contact information.
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Has Your Postal Mailing Address Changed?????
If you have moved but are not receiving your quarterly TCC Bulletin, you probably forgot to notify our member chair of your new address (this applies to email address changes also). The bulletin is mailed “bulk” and is not forwarded to new addresses by the USPS. Please notify the member chair directly: membership@transferwarecollectorsclub.org
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MORE ABOUT TRANSFERWARE COLLECTORS CLUB
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
We are now accepting simple classified (not display) advertisements from TCC member transferware dealers as well as non-dealer members and auction houses. 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.
Contact:
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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.
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