ASCCI Magazine

The Club produces four 20 A4 page newsletters each year, containing informative articles, auction reports (pictures and prices) and Club information. 

As a member of the Club, you will receive your quarterly Newsletters in the post as soon as they are published.  This is included in your membership. 

Four issues of the Shelley Newsletter Vol 19 2005

Back copies are available from the editors, Barry & Robyn Cox: thecoxes@shoal.net.au Tel: 02 4464 2077

To give a taste of the newsletter, a selection of the titles of articles published in recent years follows. Click on the year to expand the list of articles for that year.


  • Shelley In Use
  • Crested Miniatures
  • Sugar is Sweeter in a Scrolls Sugar Pot (Grecian Scroll pattern)
  • "Japan" Patterns on Faience
  • We Are Forty
  • A Wee Deoch-An-Doris (souvenirware)
  • Waterfalls by Shelley
  • Artificial Intelligence and Shelley China
  • Shelley China at Jenolan Caves in 1928
  • Elkin Knight and Bridgwood's 'British Palaces' Pattern
  • The Oleander Cup Shape
  • Another Wileman Pattern Book Found
  • Archway of Roses
  • Christmas in the Blue Mountains
  • Teapot Name Update
  • Wileman & Co "Faience" Earthenware
  • Faience Grotesques

  • Japanese Lake Scene and Pheasant Patterns
  • Ilkey Bridge & Tarn, 100 Years On
  • 'Flamboyant' Earthenware
  • The Famous Cromer Crab! A New Crested Miniature
  • Shelley China Nursery Ware by A.J. MacGregor
  • Double Duty Registration Number
  • Let's Meander with Oleander
  • Coffee Cabaret Set
  • Wileman Rococo Dessert Wares
  • Good Luck Tyg
  • Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee
  • Squat Miniature Vase
  • Walter Slater's Lustered Fish
  • Enhanced with Clouds
  • Louise Allen
  • Deer Stalking Humidor

  • Flight (pattern)
  • Shelley's Floral Queen Anne & Fruit-Handled Vogue Teacups
  • Penrith NSW Advance Australia Late Foley Drum
  • Who Remembers the Crazy Tea Set?
  • Decorative Daisy Cluster Cabaret Set
  • Silk Pyjamas - A Pattern for Our Times
  • A Paintress Behind the Dots
  • Blue Marble Effect
  • The "Parrot" Pattern
  • Surrey Scenery Service Plate
  • Poppy Cup Shape Identified
  • An Unusual Wileman Low Relief Plate
  • Discovery of a 'Missing' Intarsio Ware
  • Elegance in Gainsborough Cups
  • Slip Casting
  • Floral and Dainty China
  • Glorious Devon Chop Dishes

  • The Pattern We Know As Davies Chintz
  • Travels With My Shelley: Ballina, NSW
  • Birds in Flight, and Flights of Fancy
  • Some Information about the Wileman & Shelley Pattern Books Part Two
  • JF Wileman and the Dutch East Indies
  • Cup Shapes with Large (Breakfast) Sizes
  • Some Information about the Wileman & Shelley Pattern Books
  • Shelley Collecting in a Boating Theme
  • Paisley Delight: Groovy Baby!
  • Wileman & Co's "Faience" Old Chelsea Style
  • It's All About the Handles!
  • Rural Plates
  • "Paradise Birds", "Cloisello" and "Indian Peony"
  • Dubarry ~ The Tea for Two Tale

  • Wileman Dessert Sets and Plate Sets
  • Colour Can Make A Big Difference
  • Exploring England with Shelley
  • Intarsio Square Lidded Box
  • Bubbles [Pattern] Doesn’t Look Its Age!
  • A Shelley Passion
  • Wileman & Shelley Pattern Books to be Restored
  • Rare Trinket Set Items
  • Wileman & Shelley Decanters
  • More on Rare and Unusual Wileman and Shelley
  • Out Of Factory Artist Story
  • Bluebells Tea For Two
  • Chintz on Ripon Shape
  • Clock Cases
  • Christmas Baubles

  • Mabel Lucie Attwell: The Last of the Dream Weavers
  • Help Wanted: Turkish Cans, Mochas & Unhandled
  • Origins of Some Cup Shapes
  • Art Nouveau Maidens
  • Some Rare and Unusual Wileman and Shelley
  • Peaches and Grapes
  • Wileman “Angelic” China
  • Plates with a Luxury Touch
  • Wileman Character Jugs
  • Why Do We Collect?
  • Vases for Teeth
  • Magical Maytime
  • Sunflowers
  • Ripon Elegant or Elegance
  • Almost a Full Set (of Pattern Numbers)
  • Pink Roses & Blue Bows
  • Dating Can Be Difficult – Sometimes
  • Clippity Clop, What a Clock!

  • Wileman & Co. Artists, Designers, Decorators & Painters
  • Shelley Hardy Geranium ‘Cranebill’
  • A Wileman Beaker
  • A Note on the ‘Crocodilen’ Pattern
  • Handled Biscuit Jars
  • The Doric Shape
  • Is this Hansel and Gretel’s Cottage?
  • Intarsio Suffragette Coffee Pot
  • Colourful Cottages
  • Trinket Sets
  • Ideal China Tea for One
  • Australian Registration Numbers on Shelley
  • More about Handled Biscuit Jars
  • Shelley Earthenware Covered Boxes
  • Where is all the Deco? In New Zealand Of Course
  • Daisy, Daisy, Give Me Your Answer Do (Daisy Pattern)
  • How I Started Collecting Shelley
  • Magical Maytime
  • Jardinières or Flower Pots
  • Gainsborough & Milton Cup Shapes Update

  • Wileman & Co’s Faience 6000s Series
  • More Wileman/Shelley Fox Hunting Scenes
  • Harmony Blues
  • Wileman & Shelley Candlesticks
  • The Spiral Shape
  • Shelley Patented Pots
  • A Cat for All Seasons (Intarsio)
  • Shelley Kingfishers
  • Wileman & Co. Cup Shapes Update
  • Festoons and Fruit
  • Stunning Hilda Cowham Powder Bowl

  • The Golden Era of Shelley and Wileman China and Earthenware
  • Manly, Then and Now
  • Beautiful Rose and Jewel by Shelley
  • Delightful Doric
  • Chintz Shapes
  • Wileman and Shelley Dragons
  • Shelley Pattern Books Saved
  • Mabel Lucie Attwell Animal Teaset
  • Shelley’s Electric Lamp Bases
  • J M Barrie and Peter Pan – The Foley Shelley Connection
  • Shelley Kookaburras
  • Wileman/Shelley Hunting Scenes
  • Seasons Vases

  • Sydney Harbour Bridge on Shelley
  • Wileman Commemorates the American Pilgrims
  • The Mystery of M.E.T.
  • Towards The End (a 1960s Pattern)
  • A Lustre Bowl by Walter Slater
  • Campanula (Pattern)
  • Another Early Wileman & Co Pattern
  • Let it Snow (“Snow Crystals” Patterns)
  • Adding to the List (A new Queen Anne Pattern)
  • Fabulous Faience Fish Wall Plaques
  • Coffee Can Can (Coffee cups with sterling silver holders)
  • Shelley in the Moorcroft Style
  • China Pattern Names and Pattern Numbers
  • Intarsio “The Time O Day” Clock Case
  • Shelley in the Blue Mountains
  • A note about Shelley in the Moorcroft Style
  • Interesting Information about “Hollow ware” (Teapots, Jugs, etc.)
  • Tall Snowdrop Cup Shape Found

  • The Regent Shape
  • Crested Miniatures Update
  • Henry Wileman Photographs
  • Setting the watch (The Ripon Hornblower)
  • Glamis Castle and Shakespeare
  • Pin Dishes, Butters and Sweets
  • More Red on Shelley
  • Medieval Ladies on Wileman
  • Bluebells in the Woodlands (patterns)
  • Cheese Dishes
  • Queen Anne Dessert Sets
  • More Shelley Bluebells

  • A Host of Golden Daffodils (daffodil patterns)
  • Our National Flower (wattle patterns)
  • Landscapes and Seascapes on Gems
  • Unusual Surrey Scenery Bottle
  • Postwar Shelley China Vases
  • It's Much More Than a Teacup
  • Chantilly and H. Pardoe
  • 11591/8 (A search for a pattern)
  • Ripon Magic
  • Cucumber Trays
  • Wileman Faience - Ships and Windmills
  • Imari - A Taste of the Exotic Orient
  • Shelley and Plas Newydd, Wales
  • Bermuda's 350th Anniversary
  • The Shelley Girl
  • Jenolan Caves on Shelley
  • Red on Shelley

  • Beautiful Colours (Intarsio Jardinieres on Pedestals)
  • Ring a Ding (Pub Counter Bells)
  • Old Parliament House, Canberra Souvenir Wares
  • The Real Jacobean Chintz
  • Dating Wileman & Co. Backstamps
  • The Bernard Bumpus Collection
  • Pelican Pots
  • The Advantages of Picking Thistles (thistle patterns)
  • Maytime Chintz
  • An Early Wileman Cup Shape
  • Interesting Sightings at the Gladstone Pottery Museum, UK
  • The Dubarry Pattern
  • Teapots Update – The Empress Shape
  • Filling Another Intarsio Research Gap (recently discovered pieces)
  • London’s Tower Bridge
  • Wileman Earthenware 2000s Series
  • Footed Dainty
  • “Flamboyant” Pattern
  • Some Uncommon Faience Wall Plaques
  • Kiama Shelley Souvenir Wares
  • Wileman’s Elegant Patterns
  • Christmas Lanterns

  • The Humble Egg Cup
  • Teatime Made Special
  • Shelley Scrapbook: Pencil Drawings of Character Jugs
  • More Shelley Fakes
  • A Peek Into The Past (Childrens’ Wares)
  • Cloisello: A Changing Pattern
  • Rule Britannia
  • Floral Sterling Spans and Shelley
  • Fulfilling a Long Term Promise (a visit to the UK)
  • Something out of the Box (A Boxed Nursery Set)
  • Modern and in Vogue (Mode and Vogue teaware)
  • Provenance (Shelley Aladdin pattern child’s breakfast set)
  • Shelley Scrapbook – Blue Dragon design
  • The Shelley Link to our National Floral Emblem
  • Geisha Girls (Walter Slater Lustre Bowl)
  • Jacobean Ware Chintz
  • Travels with Shelley (Mackay souvenir wares)
  • Chocolate Pots and Chocolate Cups
  • Newsletter Insert: Proprietors of the Foley Potteries: 1822-1966
  • Cigarette Cards picturing Shelley wares