Hello and welcome back to our news page.

Firstly we hope you've had a really enjoyable Christmas and would like to wish all clients and friends, old and new, a Happy New Year.  We took the opportunity to take a week or so off and enjoyed the opportunity to relax.  Now it's back to hunting for exciting new items for stock!

We have published our expected programme of fairs for 2012 on our Fairs/Exhibitions page.  It is basically the same as last year, with the exception that we have decided not to exhibit at Burford during 2012.  This was a difficult decision to make as we have enjoyed our visits to the beautiful Cotswold town, but with two of the three fairs coming just ahead of the fair at the NEC we decided our time would be better served by preparing more fully for Birmingham.  We know that most of our Burford clients visit many of the other fairs at which we exhibit including the NEC, so feel sure we can still look after your requirements adequately.

The Caughley Society are publishing a new book on the blue and white patterns produced at that factory.  For more information please see their web site.

Maurice Hillis, the well known ceramic lecturer and researcher, has produced a wonderful new book on the most complicated of 18th century factories, those from Liverpool.  This book is undoubtedly the best available on Liverpool porcelain and we commend it to you.  For more information please see the web site promoting the new book.

We would like to commend a new web site to you, put together after very many years of research by Dr Derek K Thomas.  Derek has been known to us for a number of years and is a noted academic and ceramic historian.  He is attempting to reconstruct the early Derby tea pattern books by getting photographs of all the patterns, and there are over 700 of these!  By his own efforts he has achieved photographs of over half and publishes these on his web site.  He invites collectors worldwide to help with filling the gaps.  Please check out the site and see if you can help Derek - and all the ceramic world - with filling the gaps.  Click here to visit his site. 

Forgotten Treasures is proud to help promote these Societys and researchers with their work.

Best wishes,
John & Liz