The New Aynsley Collectors' Society

Historical Archieve Resources:

YEAR: 1982

To dowload this catalogue click the front cover

Contents:

Orchard Gold

Cottage Garden

Pembroke

Tableware

Animals

Collectors cups

Florals

Lighting

Pope

Mugs

Coffee sets

The previous year Aynsley had presented Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer a tableware service to mark their wedding. A tradition established in 1947 for Princess Elizabeth & Prince Philip.

News that year:

Belleek in 1982 was fighting for survival. This time the Northern Ireland Industrial Development Board rescued it. Roger Troughton was appointed Managing Director and the work force, which in 1981 totalled 250, was reduced to around 120. With these and other efficiencies the Pottery was once again on a firm footing and put up for sale again. Roger Troughton headed a consortium which successfully bought it and with his influence the Collectors Society was formed and gathered momentum. In 1982 the first official Collectors' Tour took place and Commander Fred Gray became the first recipient of the coveted "Hall of Fame" award.

SylvaC was the trade name for pottery produced by the firm of Shaw & Copestake Ltd which was originally the Sheaf Art Pottery Co., founded by William Shaw in 1894 at the Sylvan Works in Longton, Staffordshire.

Following the voluntary liquidation of Shaw and Copestake (SylvaC) in 1982, the pottery was run by a workers co-operative trading under the name of Longton Ceramics. Eighteen months later the enterprise was fully taken over and run under the name of Crown Winsor. This was not a successful venture and only lasted a short period before another liquidation and in 1989 Portmeirion Potteries (Holdings) plc purchased the Crown Winsor site. Note that there is no 'd' in Winsor!

1982 Clarice Cliff Collectors society opened

Extract from the 1933 pattern book D

As collectors we need to establish which range or individual shapes have been produced by Aynsley to help us in building our collections. The product catalogues produced each year are historical primary sources that can assist and confirm which pieces are missing from our collections.

We are building an online resource from back catalogues and digitising them into easy downloadable .pdf files.

We do need your help in locating back catalogues from previous members of the Aynsley Collectors' Society who each year were issued with an Aynsley giftware catalogue, also Aynsley retailers who have saved their copy or collectors who have managed to acquire their own. Aynsley China are also supporting this project since their own archives are limited.

Archiving historical documents is a very important task for the future we have recently acquired an Aynsley pattern book D dating from 1933 - 1960. This records the art work and some litho transfers pieces of this period. These will be published shortly.