Carlton Ware World
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Links
to the more significant sites featuring Carlton Ware

Note - Many sites are in desperate need of updating and contain inaccurate information.

Google, the most popular search engine, returns over 365,000 web pages containing the words Carlton Ware. Most of these are related to eBay. Use our eEay searches page to access these.

The most significant remaining entries are listed below.

We separate non-commercial and commercial sites.

In addition, at the bottom of this page, we list websites for other pottery collectors websites. To go directly to this list click_here.

Non-commercial sites

thepotteries.org
This is a website on the local history of Stoke-on-Trent. The page shown when clicking the link is based on an article on Carlton Ware published 1999 in the now defunct magazine Antiques World. Some inaccuracies and some information inevitably very out of date.
Another page from this site gives an early history of Stoke and includes a map showing Copeland Street. To view this page click here.

Carlton Ware at Bigpond.
A site devoted to Carlton Ware, run by an Australian enthusiast of Handcraft and Lustre decorations.
Last updated August 2007.

The Match Striker Gallery
An excellent site mostly dedicated to ceramic Match Strikers made by British Potters.
It seems that Wiltshaw & Robinson, made considerably more than any other pottery.
Tobacco jars with integral match strikers are also shown.  The link above takes you plain match strikers but there is another page on crested match strikers. To view this page click here.

The Guinness Collectors Club
Membership is needed to view the Guinness collectors club Carlton Ware Gallery, but the page link here will take you to their open access page on Carlton Ware fakes.  The page shows images of original Carlton Ware but not the fakes of them.

The Guinness Collectors Club site also has a page titled "Fake Pottery" swoop, which reports on the prosecution of the "pottery pirate", Robert Snow in 1997. Click here to view it.

The Piggy Bank Page.
A site devoted to 20th century British and European Piggy Banks, with some background history about their manufacture and the potteries that made them. Carlton Ware is represented with some of its splendid money boxes from the 1970s. We recommend this attractive site.

Wikipedia
This well-known free encyclopædia is much criticised, but the entry for Carlton Ware is better than many other Internet sources, though still has inaccuracies.

EBay Reviews & Guides related to Carlton Ware posted by eBay users
10 Guides of varying interest, most related to fakes.  Some Blogs.
Historical information on Carlton Ware is often inaccurate.

World Collectors Net
A collectors resource and portal for collectors of items ranging from Elvis Memorabilia to William De Morgan!
This link will take you to the page on Carlton Ware. The text is somewhat speculative and imaginative!

Facebook based group
Created by Clive Birch for enthusiasts of Carlton Ware from the 1930s with an emphasis on some of the fine floral embossed ranges from this period.


Commercial Sites

Carlton Ware World makes no judgement about pricing on any commercial sites and leaves this to the viewer.

Invaluable
This is a subscription auction database service costing from £10 per month, depending on requirements.  It is possible, however, to freely view a list of auctions that include Carlton Ware, although payment is needed to receive full details of lots - click here to see a free list of Carlton Ware presently for sale.

Invaluable offers a a free one months trial - to take advantage of this click here.

carltonware.com
A site run by ckyk publishing with useful information on patterns and shapes.
To gain full access to this site it is necessary to buy two books. The site was last updated in August 2007.

Walking Ware Pottery.co.uk
A very well presented site selling Walking Ware made by Carlton Ware, Rising Hawk and Lustre Pottery.
Run by Peter and Lisa who have been collecting Walking Ware for over 20 years.

Roger Michell
Roger and Danka Napiorkoska were respsonsable for the delightfully quirky Walking Ware made by Carlton Ware. This is Roger's web page on recent Walking Ware. Another informative page shows his Tumbling Clown teapot, which was also produced by Carlton Ware. To view it click here.

Helen Martin's site
A site run by founder member of Carlton Ware World, Helen Martin, selling Carlton Ware.

carltonchina.info
Informative site devoted to china made by Carlton Ware after Wiltshaw & Robinson took over the Vine Pottery of Birks Rawlins in 1928. Run by founder members of Carlton Ware World, Derek & Jane Towns, who also offer china for sale.

Retroselect
One of the better presented dealer sites, primarily specialising post war European, but mostly British, pottery.

Annie's Old Things
A website run by John & Annie Bunworth from Queensland in Australia, specialising mostly in British Ceramics made between 1870-1940, including Carlton Ware, of course.

July 2008 - John and Annie produce an eBook on an archive quality CD called British Decorative Art Pottery 1870-1950, which has 75 chapters of 1050 pages with over 2,500 images. They are sending us a copy so that we can review the section on Carlton Ware for you. The price is 89 US dollars.

Antique 67
A Canadian website with information on Canadian antiques and collectables markets.
The link here leads to an article on Carlton Ware by Founder member of Carlton Ware World, Helen Martin.

Zeichen
Specializes in 19th & 20th century ceramics - 3 pages devoted to Carlton Ware.
Problems experienced whilst trying to access this site 1 November 2008. Zeichen uses Pipex/Tiscali, who have presented their customers with connection problems for some time.

30 Something!
An on-line shop run by Alison Smith specialising in Floral Embossed Carlton Ware, Shelley Potteries and miscellaneous Art Deco items.

Appleton Antiques
Middlesbrough based dealer offering a selection of Carlton Ware.

Burslem Antiques & Collectables
Specialists in English Ceramics based in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent.

Collectics
A US based Collecting & Design Directory covering a wide range of Antiques and Collectables.

Pristine Antiques & Collectibles
An Australian based seller of ceramics, primarily Carlton Ware Floral Embossed and Royal Winton Chintz.


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Other Pottery Collectors & Enthusiasts websites

Listed alphabetically by make or type of pottery

Belleek International Collectors Society
United Kingdom Group established in 1989 - Free.

Clarice Cliff Collectors Club
Founded in 1982. £25 per year.

Crown Devon Collectors Club
Founded in 1999, by Peter & Brenda Aspinall, but now relinquished to Alan Roberts. From £9 per year.

Crown Devon World
This site was hosted by the Microsoft's free MSN Groups, which closed by Microsoft in October 2008, so the site became unavailable. Crown Devon World was run by a member of the Crown Devon Collectors club, who is presently looking for another host, so hopefully the site will become live again. If, and when it does we will provide a link here (May 09).

Flow Blue International Collector's Club, Inc.
Formed in 1986. $39.00 per year

Gray's Pottery Website
Started by Paul & Kathy Niblett in 2007. A site for researchers of the history and products of Gray's Pottery, as well as for anyone with a general interest in Stoke-on-Trent, its industry and its history.

The Maling Collectors' Society
A research body which aims to rediscover as much as possible about
the history and wares of Maling Pottery.

The Myott Collectors Club
Formed in 2000. From £15 per year

Rob's Poole Pottery Collection
Started in 2008; site has photos of Rob's own collection of Poole Pottery, together with some reference material, which includes a timeline and a list of Poole Pottery marks.

The ETB Radford Collectors Club
Formed in 2000. From £10 per year

The Shelley Group
From £27.50 per year

Susie Cooper Information Site (SCIS)
Started as a project in web design in 1999 by Mark Clemas

Sites run by Commercial Potteries

Carlton Ware Direct
A website for Frank Salmon, current owner of the Carlton Ware trademark, and called The Official Carlton Ware Website for New Carlton Ware. Gives information on current new Carlton Ware which helps to avoid confusion with ware made at the Copeland Street works before it closed in 1989. Free to join mailing list to receive information on new Carlton Ware.

Moorcroft Pottery
The Edwards family have controlled Moorcroft since 1993. The Moorcroft pottery is one of the last remaining independent British art potteries operating from its original factory, which is in Stoke-on-Trent. It continues to employ tubelined decorations, which were pioneered by William Moorcroft at the end of the 19th century. The pottery runs a collectors club, primarily for new Moorcroft. £30 per year.

Poole Pottery Collectors Club
Poole Pottery went into administration in 2007 and its assets were bought by Lifestyle group, who also own Royal Stafford in Stoke on Trent, where Poole pottery is now made.  Lifestyle group created their Poole Pottery Collectors Club in 2008 primarily for new Poole. £30 per year.



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