Special Interest Articles

This page is a comprehensive collection of articles written about transferware by TCC member-contributors, as well as other authors. We will continue to add to this page. Categories include Database Discoveries (short articles by Database editors), Miscellaneous Articles, and Richards Foundation Grant Projects. Another excellent resource is theTransferware Collection Club Bulletin, published four times a year -- view sample articles.

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See Database Discoveries, More Articles and Publications, Richards Foundation Grant Projects

Articles by Author

Christmas, Pete: 1820s Pearlware Filled-in Transfers; Patterns and Attributions
Dodd, DeeDee: Surprising Spout Prints
Erich, Wendy: Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Transferware?
Goldberg, Hayden: The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch on Historical Blue Staffordshire Part 1: The Early Buildings, 1790-1807
Goldberg, Hayden: The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch on Historical Blue Staffordshire Part 2: The Later Buildings, 1810-1832
Goldberg, Hayden: The Earliest Known Example of Historical Blue Staffordshire
Goldberg, Hayden: Two Newly Identified American Views on Historical Blue Staffordshire
Gray, Jonathan: Swansea's Printed Wares: A Reassessment
Halliday, Richard: Catalog of the Greeves Collection of Transfer-Printed Pickle Dishes and Milseys with a Social and Historical Commentary
Henrywood, Dick: The Mysterious Mr. Marshall, Plagiarist Extraordinaire
Hoexter, David: Museums and Places of Interest With Displays and Collections of Transfer Printed Pottery, also available as PDF
Hoexter, David: What’s in a Word: Vocabulary Discoveries from Transfer-Printed Advertising Ware
Kling, Len: Enoch Wood's Series #106
Kling, Len: Wood's Italian Scenery
Robbins, Rita: Aesthetic Movement Transferware: Some Things of Beauty (and Utility)
Rogers, Connie: British Shipping Company China
Rogers, Connie: Yellow Transfer Printed Brownware
Sack, Michael: Searching the Bibliography for Source Prints and Patterns
Siddall, Judie: Inappropriate Children's Patterns
Siddall, Judie: Transferware Darning Eggs
Sutor, Peggy, et al: American Historical Transferware Treasures at the Smithsonian
Tanner, Arleen and Grahame: Assessing Modern Theories on Swansea Transferware
Tanner, Arleen and Grahame: Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Public & Private Commemorative Printed Wares

Articles by Title

1820s Pearlware Filled-in Transfers; Patterns and Attributions: Pete Christmas
Aesthetic Movement Transferware: Some Things of Beauty (and Utility): Rita Robbins
American Historical Transferware Treasures at the Smithsonian: Peggy Sutor, et al
The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch on Historical Blue Staffordshire Part 1: The Early Buildings, 1790-1807: Hayden Goldberg
The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch on Historical Blue Staffordshire Part 2: The Later Buildings, 1810-1832: Hayden Goldberg
Assessing Modern Theories on Swansea Transferware: Tanner, Arleen and Grahame
British Shipping Company China: Connie Rogers
Catalog of the Greeves Collection of Transfer-Printed Pickle Dishes and Milseys with a Social and Historical Commentary: Richard Halliday
Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Transferware?: Wendy Erich
The Earliest Known Example of Historical Blue Staffordshire: Hayden Goldberg
Enoch Wood's Series No. 106: Len Kling
Inappropriate Children's Patterns: Judie Siddall
Museums and Places of Interest With Displays and Collections of Transfer Printed Pottery, also available as PDF: David Hoexter
The Mysterious Mr. Marshall, Plagiarist Extraordinaire: Dick Henrywood
Searching the Bibliography for Source Prints and Patterns: Michael Sack
Surprising Spout Prints: DeeDee Dodd
Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Public & Private Commemorative Printed Wares: Arleen and Grahame Tanner
Swansea's Printed Wares: A Reassessment: Jonathan Gray
Transferware Darning Eggs: Judie Siddall
Two Newly Identified American Views on Historical Blue Staffordshire: Hayden Goldberg
What’s in a Word: Vocabulary Discoveries from Transfer-Printed Advertising Ware, David Hoexter
Wood's Italian Scenery: Len Kling
Yellow Transfer Printed Brownware: Connie Rogers

Articles by Topic

Database Discoveries

April 2012: Yellow Transfer Printed Brown Ware
May 2012: Transferware Darning Eggs
June 2012: Wood's Italian Scenery
July 2012: Aesthetic Movement Transferware: Some Things of Beauty (and Utility)
August 2012: Searching the Bibliography for Source Prints and Patterns
October 2012: What’s in a Word: Vocabulary Discoveries from Transfer-Printed Advertising Ware
November 2012: British Shipping Company China
December 2012: Inappropriate Children's Patterns
February 2013: Enoch Wood's Series No. 106
April 2013: Surprising Spout Prints

Richards Foundation Grant Projects

Did Benjamin Franklin Invent Transferware?
Wendy Erich's research into Benjamin Franklin's claim that he invented transferware. The Burlington Magazine 1288 Vol. CLII (July 2010): 464-469.
1820s Pearlware Filled-in Transfers; Patterns and Attributions
Researched and written by Pete Christmas.
The Mysterious Mr. Marshall, Plagiarist Extraordinaire
Dick Henrywood provided two lectures incorporating new research to the 2011 Baltimore Annual Meeting. A detailed summary.
Catalog of the Greeves Collection of Transfer-Printed Pickle Dishes and Milseys with a Social and Historical Commentary
In this excellent 202-page publication, Richard Halliday documents the outstanding and one-of-a-kind collection of the late Robin Greeves and provides an interesting social and historical perspective for these two often misunderstood forms of transfer-printed Staffordshire pottery.
Swansea's Printed Wares: A Reassessment
Jonathan Gray summarized his two 2011 Baltimore Annual Meeting presentations and Richards Foundation grant research.

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More Articles and Publications

American Historical Transferware Treasures at the Smithsonian Peggy Sutor, et al.
The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch on Historical Blue Staffordshire Part 1: The Early Buildings, 1790-1807: Hayden Goldberg
The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch on Historical Blue Staffordshire Part 2: The Later Buildings, 1810-1832: Hayden Goldberg
Assessing Modern Theories on Swansea Transferware: Tanner, Arleen and Grahame
China and Glass Quarterly
The Earliest Known Example of Historical Blue Staffordshire: Hayden Goldberg
Museums and Places of Interest With Displays and Collections of Transfer Printed Pottery, also available as PDF: David Hoexter
Swansea's Cambrian Pottery Public & Private Commemorative Printed Wares: Arleen and Grahame Tanner
Two Newly Identified American Views on Historical Blue Staffordshire: Hayden Goldberg