Resources
Club Websites
Flow Blue International Collectors Club
Focus: 19th and early 20th Centure Flow Blue and Mulberry
https://www.flowblue.org/
Tea Leaf Club International
Focus: Tea Leaf ironstone china and its variants produced in England and America from the mid-19th century through the early 1900s
http://www.tealeafclub.com/
Transferware Collectors Club
Focus: Antique British Transferware from 1760-1900
https://www.transferwarecollectorsclub.org/
Collection Disposition
Suggestions for the Disposition of a Collection
Information Websites
James Edwards
Focus: The life and times of James Edwards (& Son), Dalehall, England
http://www.james-edwards.info/
Stoke-on-Trent
Focus: History and potteries of Stoke-on-Trent, England
http://www.thepotteries.org/
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, London, England
Focus: British history including ornamental design registry
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/registered-designs-1839-1991/
Books and Other Publications
A Handbook on White Ironstone, Jean Wetherbee, Self Published, 1974. Reprinted by WICA, 1997.
A Look at White Ironstone, Jean Wetherbee, Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1980.
A Second Look at White Ironstone, Jean Wetherbee, Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 1985.
Adams Ceramics, Staffordshire Potters and Pots, 1779-1998, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1999.
Blueberry Notes, Newsketters of the Flow Blue International Collectors Club.
DeBolt's Dictionary of American Pottery Marks, Whiteware & Porcelain, C. Gerald DeBolt, Collector Books, 1994.
Encyclopedia of Marks on American, English, and European Earthenware, Ironstone, and Stoneware (1780-1980), Arnold A. & Dorothy E. Kowalsky, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1999.
Godden's Guide to Ironstone Stone & Granite Wares, Geoffrey A. Godden, Antique Collector’s Club, 1999.
Grandma's Tea Leaf Ironstone, Annise Doring Heaivilin, Wallace Homestead Book Company, 1981.
Handbook of Tea Leaf Body Styles, Tea Leaf Club International, 1995 with updates in 2000 and 2006.
Illustrated Guide of White Ironstone China From A-Z, Ernie & Bev Dieringer, White Ironstone China Association, 2013. Available through the WICA Shoppe.
Mulberry Ironstone: Flow Blue's Best Kept Little Secret, Ellen R. Hill, Self-Published, 1993 with updates in 1994 and 1996.
Nineteenth-Century Pottery and Porcelain in Canada, Elizabeth Collard, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1984, Second Edition.
Pocket Book of British Ceramic Marks Including Index to Registered Designs 1842-1883, J. P. Cushion, London: Faber and Faber, 1994, Fourth Printing.
Tea Leaf Readings, Newsletters of the Tea Leaf Club International.
The Illustrated Guide to Mason’s Patent Ironstone China and Related Wares—Stone China, New Stone, Granite China—and Their Manufacturers, Geoffrey A. Godden, Praeger Publishers, 1971.
The New Handbook of British Pottery & Porcelain Marks, Geoffrey A. Godden, Ebury Publishing, 1999. Includes registered designs from 1839-83 and the later registry numbers from 1884-1999.
The Pottery and Porcelain of the United States and Marks of American Potters, Edwin Atlee Barber, Feingold & Lewis, 1976.
The Wheat Pattern: An Illustrated Survey, Lynne Sussman, National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Environment Canada, 1985. Reprinted by WICA in 1998.
White Ironstone China Plate Identification Guide 1840-1890, Ernie and Bev Dieringer, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 2001. Available through the WICA Shoppe.
White Ironstone Notes, Newsletters of the White Ironstone China Association, Inc.
White Ironstone Pitchers Book II, An Identification Guide, Ernie & Bev Dieringer, White Ironstone China Association, 2007. Available through the WICA Shoppe.
White Ironstone Pitchers, An Identification Guide, Ernie & Bev Dieringer, White Ironstone China Association, 2003. Available through the WICA Shoppe.
White Ironstone Teapots, An Identification Guide, Ernie & Bev Dieringer, White Ironstone China Association, 2002. Available through the WICA Shoppe.
White Ironstone Tureens, An Identification Guide, Ernie & Bev Dieringer, White Ironstone China Association, 2004. Available through the WICA Shoppe.
White Ironstone: A Collector’s Guide, Jean Wetherbee, Antique Trader Books, 1996. Reprinted by WICA, Inc., 2005. Available through the WICA Shoppe.
White Ironstone: A Survey of its Many Forms, Undecorated, Flow Blue, Mulberry, Copper Lustre, Dawn Stoltzfus & Jeffrey B. Snyder, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1997. Available through the WICA Shoppe.