The 7th annual Transferware Collectors Club meeting will span three nights and four days in Philadelphia from October 19-22, 2006.

Topics
Historic Views on Pink Staffordshire

Richard Jordan, the Preacher and the Pattern

Philadelphia, the Little Athens of the Federal Period

Selling Your Collection through the Auction Process (presented by Freeman's, America's oldest auction house)

Historical Liverpool Pottery

Staffordshire Exports to America, 1806-1830: The Hard Facts

In the Footsteps of Lewis & Clark: Transferware Invades the American West


Other highlights
Guided tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, including a view of the Pennsylvania German collection, the Bonnin & Morris and Tucker collections of American porcelain, and selected pieces from the museum's transferware collection

Visit to the historic Fairmount Water Works

Bus tour of Fairmount Park houses and sites commemorated on transferware pottery

Dinner at the historic City Tavern in old town Philadelphia

The optional Thursday schedule includes a visit to two collections in Lancaster County: the Fred and Ruth Buch collection, featuring the Landing of Lafayette pattern, and the Bill and Terry Kurau collection; travel and lodging for Thursday are not included in the overall price.

Residential rates (includes 2 dinners, 3 continental breakfasts, 1 boxed lunch at the Hilton Garden Inn, 1100 Arch Street, all taxes and gratuities) range from $810 for a double (1 person) to $1245 for a junior suite (2 people). Day tripper rates $140 for meeting, tours, and sale (incl. tax but no hotel, no meals), $15 for Sunday sale only (members only), meal rates additional. Undercover parking in the hotel garage is $21/day.

Registration, including the show and sale, is for members only.
Membership $30/year
http://www.transcollectorsclub.org/membership.htm

Registration form:
http://www.transcollectorsclub.org

Checks payable to TCC should be sent to
Peggy & Fred Sutor
120 Bridle Lane
Lower Gwynedd, PA 19002
No refunds after September 1.