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THE NORTH AMERICAN TORQUAY SOCIETY (N.A.T.S.)
If you are interested in Torquay pottery you may find these other sites interesting:
Torquay Pottery Collectors Society
The Torquay Pottery Collectors Society is the English society for Torquay pottery collectors. The website provides access to Scandy On Line which contains a "sampler" of Scandy the quarterly magazine published by TPCS. The site also contains detailed reviews of some of the TPCS publications that are available from NATS.
Exeter Art Pottery
Keith Randell maintains an excellent site about this South Devon pottery. http://website.lineone.net/~khrandell
Pottery Studio The Pottery Studio is a knowledge base for collectors, students and lovers
of all kinds of pottery. It's a large site, over 7,000 pages. The site contains a number of good
pictures of Torquay pottery Honiton Pottery Collectors Society Although not in South Devon, this pottery (and its "relative" Crown Dorset) had a great deal in common with the Torquay potteries as a visit to this site will show. Christopher Dresser was one of the leading industrial designers of the 19th
century. He is credited with significant influence on the Torquay potters'
designs. This website contains within it examples of Dresser's designs and
his story.
Scroll down the page to find Christopher Dresser
The museum's website contains a few pictures of Torquay pottery from the museum's collection.
All Torquay collectors should visit Torre Abbey when visiting Torquay. The Brian Reade collection of Torquay and Watcombe terracottas attracts enthusiasts from all over the world. It has been supplemented by donations from the Torquay Pottery Collectors Society, who keep their archive on the premises.
OTHER LINKS
Black Forest. Finely Handpainted Chalkware Made in
New England. Cast from antique chocolate molds once used to create beautiful chocolates
in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, each chalkware
collectible is skillfully cast, handpainted, and treated to create a unique
heirloom of tomorrow.