This year we will be featuring an exciting event that many, in the past, have enjoyed and participated in. Back by popular demand, the "Cross-Over Collection" display will return to the 2013 Columbus convention.
Many of us are collectors of other items beside flow blue and mulberry - can you imagine that! This is an opportunity for you or your partner to share your other collective pursuits with us. This is a perfect time for your partner, the one who does not collect flow blue and mulberry, to display their collective interests. In the past, items shown and enjoyed by all have included: smoking pipes, quilting pieces, silver place settings, genealogy, clocks, Christmas ornaments, other types of ironstone china, photos of auto restorations, thimbles, postcards, various types of glassware, etc. etc. In the past, many members have stayed with their display to answer questions about the displayed items and other general questions. It is a quality time of sharing.
A second part of this different and exciting event is we are asking attending members to bring an unusual piece of flow blue produced by an Ohio Potter. Ohio potters include: Sebring, French Saxon China Co., Sterling China Co., Knowles Taylor & Knowles, Homer Laughlin Co. and possibly others. This display will compliment one of our major convention presentations - History of Ohio Potteries. This type of event had not been attempted before - together, let's make it a great success.
Please plan on attending the 2013 FBICC convention and take part in this interesting event. This promises to be both exciting, educational and enjoyable. Displays need to be limited in size to about 30" X 36" so room will be available for everyone to participate. You will be surprised and amazed by the items others collect - very impressive indeed.
Please sign up to bring your items on the convention registration forms to be mailed in May.
Please contact: John & Laurel Provine for more information.
FLOW BLUE
MADE IN THE EAST LIVERPOOL OHIO AREA
We will offer a brief overview of the rich history of East Liverpool, including the passage of George Washington, and later on, the Louis & Clark Expedition through the area. Survey work to open the Northwest Territory began here, as well as the demise of the notorious bank robber and gunman, Pretty Boy Floyd, and the capture of the army led by Confederate Calvary Officer John Hunt Morgan, stopping the deepest penetration of the Confederate Army into the North.
Plentiful yellow clay, coal and timber along the banks of the Ohio River, and the transportation the river offered, drew James Bennett to East Liverpool in 1839, who established the first commercially successful pottery in the area. Many other English potters soon followed to seek their fortunes, making our area the largest and most productive pottery manufacturing area in the United States.
We will show photos of what remains of: the Harker Pottery; the Goodwin/Baggott Pottery & bottle kiln; Hall China & their bottle kiln; the East Liverpool Museum of Ceramics; and possibly of a few other local attractions.
Our PowerPoint presentation will show examples from our private collection of Flow Blue manufactured in East Liverpool, Ohio, plus Wellsville, East Palestine, Sebring Ohio and examples made by Chester, Newell, Wheeling and Huntington WV potteries. A few pieces to be shown are courtesy of the East Liverpool Historical Society and the East Liverpool Museum of Ceramics. Several of the more than 20 manufacturers pieces you will see, rival some of the finest American made Flow Blue.
William A. & Donna J. Gray (Guest Speakers from Ohio)
Flow
Blue and MulberryChildren’s Wares of the 19th
Century -1830-1900.
Bonne and Bob Hohl will be presenting a PowerPoint program entitled,Flow
Blue and MulberryChildren’s Wares of the 19th
Century -1830-1900. This
program culminates years of researching and
collecting children’s wares in white ironstone, transfer, sponge,
spatter, flow blue and mulberry children’s dinner services, tea services,
teapots sugars, etc. The program will
feature many of their personal collection of flow blue and mulberry plus a host
of children’s pieces and services that members of the Club have in their collections.
The Program will include a brief historical perspective of
child’s wares, review the contents of typical child’s tea services and dinner services,
and provide a photo showcase of many tea services and dinner services in a host
of patterns, shapes made by numerous potters.
Additionally, there will be a section on mugs, pitcher & bowls sets
and some unusual child’s pieces.
Also featured will be a booklet highlighting the major
portions of the presentation including a plethora of photos, that will be given
to every Club member, funded by the FBICEF (Educational Fund).
The Rare
and Unusual Piece
By Warren Macy
I have been presenting the Rare and Unusual program long
enough now that each year I worry that we will not have as many participants or
that the pieces will not be as rare or unusual as those we have come to expect.
Each year club members have proved that I worry needlessly. This year (2012)
was certainly no exception. In 2013 our normal R&U event will be
followed by a PowerPoint presentation “Living
WithRare and Unusual Flow Blue and
Mulberry.” Each year I see all of the wonderful R&U pieces our members bring to
the convention and how they look sitting on draped tables, but I frequently
wonder how they look and how they are displayed in their homes. Our “Living with
R&U Flow Blue and Mulberry” program will provide the answers. I am asking our members to take some high quality
photos of their R&U pieces in their “natural habitat” as they see them every
day and send them to me via the instructions provided in the Blue Berry Notes. With the help of Margaret Taylor, we
plan to incorporate these pictures into what has the potential to be one of the
most interesting programs we have had at our conventions. As I was writing this
article I just received an email containing the first five pictures for the
program. They were from Charlie Washer showing his rare and beautiful potpourri
sitting between a pair of flow blue candlesticks on his dining room table!
The photos sent will be shared at convention but your name can be omitted if you desire.
Some members are willing to share their home photos but wish to remain
anonymous - this is perfectly OK. However, it will only be as good as you make
it by sending your pictures. Now is the time…..go get started!
FBICC Website Presentation
The last,
but certainly not least presentation at the 2013 FBICC convention will be an
FBICC website presentation.
In 2011, the
Club's website underwent a near total makeover. The new website has many more
resources, much additional information and unlimited room to grow. The new website is powerful as it contains
many more sections or tabs of information. The website will continue to grow as
more and more people become involved with providing new and exciting
information - the limits are endless.
Along with
change comes the problem with using a new device - in this case it is our
website. The format of the website and how to retrieve information has some of
us scratching our heads. This class will hopefully better prepare all of us in
using our new website. The new website has several “mouse-over” menus that
"drop down” when the computer’s cursor passes over them. The “drop downs” contain
subject titles of specific information available within the menu. The drop
downs are simple to use once understood.
Many of the
items we search for are available to everyone - member and the public alike.
Much of the information on the website is restricted to FBICC members who have
the password - located in the front of our membership roster booklet and also
distributed by email.
This
presentation or class is being offered due to several members having confusion
on how to access and use the website and how to specifically use the powerful
pattern identification program.
Ken
Gallagher is our Club Webmaster and will start the presentation off with how
one finds our Club website, how to use the drop down menus, how to reach the
members only area and how to reach the pattern identification program. This
should eliminate all confusion on these topics.
Jim &
Helen Swan will follow Ken and will specifically discuss and show how to use
the pattern identification program. This pattern ID program is a very powerful
tool in helping us to find patterns on items we own, but are not marked with
the pattern name or the potter's name. The methods or steps will be discussed
and shown on how one can find information within this section of the site. This
presentation should answer all your questions involving how to use the pattern
ID section of our site.
The FBICC
Board strongly felt the upgrade of our Club website was needed to bring better
and more information to our membership as well as a strong tool to recruit new
members to the Club.
Did you know
that all the past issues of the BBN's are now posted on the website?
