COLLECTORS CLUBS
COLLECTORS CLUBSMany of the Clubs described below are included in the extensive directory of clubs at Antiques World and are reproduced with their permission. The descriptions are not to be seen as an endorsement or recommendation of any organisation or product. If you are aware on any information that is incorrect or needs updating then please email Antiques World and also email me: Steve Birks
Aynsley Collectors' Society
Aims:
To keep members in touch with Aynsley China and its products present and past.
Activities:
Magazine; factory tours; limited editions produced each year exclusive to
members.
Run by the factory and largely, though not exclusively, concerned with new
products.
Aynsley China Sutherland Road Longton Stoke on Trent ST3 1HS
Tel: 01782 599499
Email: customer.services@aynsley.co.uk
Aims:
To meet socially, keep in touch with news and events, share experiences, expand
knowledge, exchange Belleek ware and have fun.
Activities:
Two newsletters and four gatherings/meetings p.a; buying and selling.
The Group is developing international fellowship links with worldwide
enthusiasts.
Contact:
Mr Jan Golaszewski
Chairman
5 Waterhall Avenue Chingford London E4 6NB
Tel: 0208 529 0510 after 8pm weekdays
Aims:
To provide collectors of Beswick with information and to bring collectors
together.
Activities:
Regular meetings around country with opportunity to buyand sell (details sent
direct to members); opportunity to buy specially commissioned Beswick models,
exclusive to members; newsletter published in Collecting Doulton magazine;
advice from Beswick experts.
Collecting Doulton, 5 Southbrook Mews, Southbrook Road, London SE12 8LG
Tel: 0208 318 9580
Email: frank.salmon@carltonware.co.uk
Aims:
To promote interest in blue and white transfer printed earthenware
Activities:
Quarterly bulletins; one main meeting p.a. usually in a well known museum; local
meetings.
Contact:
Arthur Roberts
Coscote Manor Coscote Nr Didcot S Oxfordshire OX11 0NP
Tel: Not supplied
Aims:
To encourage the study and enjoyment of ceramics.
Activities:
Fifteen lecture meetings p.a; occasional papers produced; visits; annual two day
seminar.
A friendly group interested in a wide range of ceramic subjects. The only
qualification for membership is a deep interest in the field of ceramic study.
Contact:
The
Membership Secretary
email:
philATourabode99.fsnet.co.uk
(use the @ symbol instead of AT)
Aims:
To further knowledge of the history of ceramics and to make this knowledge
available through lectures, publications and exhibitions.
Activities:
Four newsletters and one journal p.a; seven double lecture meetings p.a.; summer visit;
one week Ceramics Summer School each year in conjunction with Keele University.
The foremost group in this country (but with a sizeable membership in Europe and
the US) for the study of ceramics, principally British. Members include
collectors, students, researchers, professional museum curators and members of
the antiques and auction trade. Registered charity.
Contact:
Ken Bowers, Treasurer and Membership Secretary,
"Vermont", Tirley Lane, Utkinton, Tarporley,
Cheshire, CW6 0JZ
Tel: 01829 732349
email the Chairman: Maurice
Hillis
Aims:
To educate members about Bizarre ware, inform them of rarity and price trends,
and enable them to meet to learn from each other.
Activities:
28-page Review three times p.a; 6 newsletters p.a; Annual 2-day Convention (also
used by former CC paintresses, now aged 77 to 87, as their annual reunion); club
stalls at Art Deco Fairs; for sale/wanted service; free insurance valuations for
members; in 1999 an exclusive preview of the Clarice Cliff Centenary Exhibition.
Contact:
Leonard Griffin
Chairman
Fantasque House Tennis Drive The Park Nottingham NG7 1AE
Tel: Not supplied
Email: Information@claricecliff.com
Web: www.claricecliff.com
Aims:
To support and inform, to broaden awareness and to make the collecting of
Cornish and other T G Green wares much more fun. To put collectors in touch with
one another.
Activities:
Free Cornish ware collectors mug on joining; three newsletters p.a;
supplementary information sheets; swap shop; open days; chance to purchase three
limited edition pieces a year.
Although only launched in February 1997, the club is growing rapidly and has
members throughout the world.
Contact:
Janet Winterbottom
PO Box 18 Glossop Derbys SK13 8FA
Tel: 01457 864833
Aims:
To inform collectors about Royal Doulton products - both current and
discontinued.
Activities:
Quarterly magazine; identification service; exclusive offers; membership gift;
and free factory tours.
Contact:
No contact details at present.
Aims:
To foster interest in Goss China and increase knowledge of the Goss Factory and
its products; to enable collectors to meet regularly; to undertake or assist in
the disposal of Goss collections.
Activities:
Monthly magazine; postal auctions; two specialist Goss and crested china fairs
p.a; regular country-wide meetings; photographic slide bank; free advice.
The Club can give generous cash advances for those who wish to sell their
collection through the club postal auction.
The Secretary
31a The Crescent Stanley Common Derbyshire DE7 6GL
Tel: 0115 9300441
Aims:
The Society was established in 1985. It combines lively collecting with serious
study of the Crown Dorset and the Honiton potteries which were established by
Charles Collard to produce fine hand crafted pottery.
Activities:
Four newsletters p.a; two meetings p.a. including identification service;
occasional open days at a member's home; stall at the Honiton Agricultural Show
each August.
Internet site: www.hpcs.info
Contact:
Robin Tinkler
Secretary
12 Beehive Lane Chelmsford Essex CM2 9SX
Tel: 01245 353 477
Email: rjohnd@cix.co.uk
Web: www.cix.co.uk/~moshpit/Hpcshome.html
The Chairman Robin Tinkler's Email address is rjohnd@cix.co.uk
and our
Joan Allen (Publicity Officer)
Aims:
To provide a social forum for collectors and to pursue knowledge and
appreciation of Langley Pottery and its wares.
Activities:
Two substantial newsletters p.a. with colour photos; monthly meetings.
Contact:
Mrs J Giblin
Secretary
64 Hands Road Heanor Derbyshire DE75 7HB
Tel: 01773 716847
Mason's Ironstone Collectors' Club
NOTE: at the moment awaiting contact information
Aims:
To provide information and advice to lovers of Moorcroft fine pottery worldwide.
Activities:
Full colour newsletters; special events; discounts on purchases in factory shop;
option of ordering pieces designed especially for the Club.
Contact:
Maggie Williams
W Moorcroft plc Sandbach Road Burslem Stoke on Trent Staffs ST6 2DQ
Tel: 01782 214323
Aims:
To promote and catalogue Moore's Brothers porcelain
Activities:
Identification; newsletters.
Research ongoing for book on Moore's.
Contact:
Mrs Dorine Archer
Odin Benbow Way Cowley Uxbridge Middx UB8 2HD
Tel: 01895 251246
The Oldcourt Pottery Collectors Club closed when
the factory was bought over by LJB Ceramics
Paragon International
Collectors Club
Aims
To bring together collectors to provide a forum for the ready interchange of
information and to a foster an enhanced general awareness of Paragon china.
(Club approved by Royal Doulton)
Activities
Newsletters, Journal, annual meeting, email news/discussion group
Contact
Secretary Tel 01235 763424
email
secretary@paragoncollector.org.uk
website
http://www.paragoncollector.org.uk
Aims:
To further knowledge of and interest in Pinxton porcelain.
Activities:
Four newsletters, four meeting and lectures and two antique fairs each year.
Contact:
Norman Taylor,
2,Hilltop Road,
Pinxton,
Derbyshire.
tel.01773 780809
Aims:
To promote knowledge of Poole Pottery and its history and to provide a forum for
collectors to meet and exchange information and learn more about their common
interest in Poole, both old and new.
Activities:
Magazines, events, identification service, discounts, badge if required. Events
include annual Gala Day at factory, outings, special factory tours,
identification evening.
Contact:
Gloria Peek
The Quay Poole Dorset BH15 1RF
Tel: 01202 666200
E.T.B.
Radford Collectors Club.
www.radfordcollect.com
Aims:
To promote and disseminate information on Shelley Potteries and generally to
broaden the appreciation of Shelley and Wileman wares.
shelley.group@shelley.co.ukEmail Address:
Postal Address: The Membership Secretary, 15 Frolesworth Lane, Claybrooke Magna, Lutterworth, Leicestershire LE17 5AS, UK
Web Site: More information can be found on their web site, http://www.shelley.co.uk
Aims:
Founded in 1986, the Society brings together collectors and lovers of Spode, to
increase knowledge of the Spode/Copeland families, the factory and its wares.
Activities:
Usually four or five events each year, held in different parts of the UK,
including visits to public and private collections. Two illustrated
publications: the Review (twice yearly) contains reports to the editor and
prices at auctions and fairs; and the Recorder (annually) mainly for new
research.
Contact:
Mrs R Pulver
PO Box 1812 London NW4 4NW
Tel: Not supplied
Aims:
A club for those who are interested in, buy or collect SylvaC.
Activities:
Quarterly newsletters; search service; identification/valuation (for Club
Members only); popular For Sale items; all books on SylvaC available from the
Club.
174 Portsmouth Road Horndean Waterlooville Hants PO8 9HP
Web site: www.sylvacclub.com
Aims:
To bring together collectors to share and swap information and teapots.
Activities:
Quarterly magazine; help to identify teapots with no marks; latest auction
prices; advice on values; swap meets.
Contact:
Ian and Lesley Rogers
Unit 4b, Ephraim Court, Ephraim Street, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent Staffs ST1 3SH
Tel: 01782 769453
Email: ian@noveltyteapots.freeserve.co.uk
Web: www.noveltyteapots.co.uk
Aims:
To stimulate interest in the old South Devon Potteries and bring together
collectors in a common aim of research.
Activities:
Quarterly magazine; three national and two local meetings p.a.
Contact:
Michael Mapp
Torquay Pottery Collectors Society, Membership Secretary,
Torquay Museum,
529 Babbacombe Road,
Torquay,
Devon, TQ1 1HG.
The Transferware Collectors Club Website is where collectors and lovers of antique transferware can research patterns, learn more about collecting and "meet" with people who share their passion.
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Aims:
Founded in 1994 in response to the many requests received from collectors.
Activities:
Membership piece and pin - changed annually; full colour quarterly magazine; 5
pieces p.a. avialable for purchase exclusively by Club members.
Contact:
Kim Rowley
Wade Ceramics Ltd Royal Works Westport Road Burslem Stoke on Trent Staffs ST6
4AG
Tel: 01782 255 255 (club)
updated: January 2007