New collectors of Torquay Pottery normally start by buying all pots that they can find, however this often leads to a themed collection after a few years. The range of themes which confront the collector are legion, and this page attempts to suggest some of them.
FOR LINKS TO EACH THEME (FOR EXAMPLE PLACE NAMES) PLEASE USE THE DROP-DOWN MENU TO THE RIGHT NOT THE LIST BELOW
Seasons: Christmas/winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn
Place names: Place-names
Mottoes: Sayings, Poetic, Dialects, Nursery Rhymes
Patterns: Scandies, Cottages, Cockerels, Flowers, Scrolls, Kingfishers, Ships & Boats, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Seagulls
Terracotta: Vases, Figures, Decorated Plaques
Animals: Cats, Dogs, Farmyard
Grotesques: inc. Pixies
Types of Pottery: Teapots, Coffee Pots, Cups & Saucers, Eggcups, Shaving Mugs, Puzzle Jugs, Plates, Biscuit Barrels, Vases, Jugs, Match-strikers, Inkwells, Scent Bottles, Toastracks, Tygs, Udder Vases, Tobacco Jars
Faience-ware: Named Scenery, Unnamed Scenery, Animals
Advertising: Products, Breweries, Hotels Companies Pottery point of Sale items
Commemoratives: Military, Personal, Royal Jubilees and Coronations
Miniatures
Toby Jugs:
Floral patterns- for example the Daffodil pattern
Some other collecting themes
Ash-trays
Pattern type (For example Aller Vale H1)
Royal Commemoratives
Documentary pieces (Featuring named people for an anniversary or occasion)
