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The Society has a number of items available for purchase. Prices are in Australian Dollars (AUD) and all are sent postage free in Australia. Overseas postage is added. Please note that stocks of some items are limited.
Please note that payments from outside Australia can be accepted ONLY by credit card. We can process payments by American Express, MasterCard or Visa card. Of course, Australian cheques and money orders are acceptable.
Australian Wedgwood Review 3
“The Australian Wedgwood Society of NSW Review” No. 3, 2002
Edited by L. Richard Smith.

Included in this 40 page issue—

  • John Skeaping’s Kangaroo, an article by Nicholas Skeaping, son of the famous artist.
  • Wedgwood at the International Exhibition, Sydney, 1879–80 by Richard Smith. Examines the items Wedgwood sent for display at this exhibition including two large vases which have been in store for many years and now are being prepared for exhibition.
  • The Earliest Wedgwood in Australia? A Patent Water Closet for Major A.C. Innes at Port Macquarie. Zena and Paul Thomas examine a Wedgwood water closet from the 1830s—the earliest verifiable piece of Wedgwood in Australia.
  • Josiah Wedgwood—Family Man. Lynn Miller of the Wedgwood Museum writes about Wedgwood's close relationship with his wife and children.
  • Australian Flora: Not the 'A' Patterns. The second issue of the Review included a study of Australian Flora designs on dinnerware which carried an 'A' pattern number. To complement this article we now publish a list of Australian Flora with other pattern numbers.
  • The Wedgwoods Abroad. Josiah writes to his son in Holland where he has taken the Portland Vase on a promotional tour.
This is the third issue of our series of journals reviewing aspects of Wedgwood from an Australian perspective. This issue was released in November 2002 by the Wedgwood Society of NSW, Sydney.
40 pages, 24.5x15.5 cm (9¾x6 ins), illustrated, soft cover.
Price: AU$10.00 per copy.

Australian Wedgwood Review 2
“The Australian Wedgwood Society of NSW Review” No. 2
Edited by L. Richard Smith.

Included in this 40 page issue which includes a colour ‘centrefold’—

  • The Wedgwood factory and how its workmen responded to the call in World War I. Some familiar names are here and details of a special limited edition medallion produced and personalised for those who had served. Includes a reproduction of the Roll of Honour card that was included with each medallion.
  • Wedgwood’s Australian Flora series of dinnerware produced in the 1880s, with a fascinating display of Australian wildflowers copied from designs by a Sydney woman.
  • A brief profile of Camilla Wedgwood, well known anthropologist who spent over 20 years in Australia in the first half of the 20th century.
  • Almost the first Wedgwood in Australia — Joseph Banks and his Wedgwood dinner services.
  • A prestigious exhibition of Wedgwood at Sydney’s Anthony Hordern’s department store in 1914.
  • Two previously unpublished articles by Josiah Wedgwood himself, the founder of the firm, one of them on floor tiles!
This is the second issue of our series of journals reviewing aspects of Wedgwood from an Australian perspective. This issue was released in February 2002 by the Wedgwood Society of NSW, Sydney. 40 pages including two in colour, 24.5x15.5 cm (9¾x6 ins), illustrated, soft cover.
Price: AU$10.00 per copy.

Australian Wedgwood Review 1
“The Australian Wedgwood Society of NSW Review” No. 1, edited by L. Richard Smith.

Included in this issue:

  • “Fingerprinting the Sydney Cove Medallion” by Richard Smith.
  • “This-- ‘...incurable madness’” by Lynn Miller.
    A profile of Thomas Byerley.
  • “St. Amputation Day” by Paul Thomas.
    Wedgwood had his right leg amputated in 1768, we attempt to appreciate what such an operation must have been like at that time.
  • “A Wedgwood Descendant in Queensland” by Joan Cowan.
  • “My Mixed Reception in Sydney - 1886” by Richard Tangye.
    How a museum missed out on a valuable gift.
  • “Green and Gold - that Teaset for Queen Charlotte” by Richard Smith.
  • and pieces from the Wedgwood archives including a letter from Josiah Wedgwood to his son in Paris expressing his objection to drinking wine and Josiah's thoughts on making marbles from jasper.
This is the first issue of a planned annual series of journals reviewing aspects of Wedgwood from an Australian perspective. Published in 2000 by the Wedgwood Society of NSW, Sydney. Print run of this first issue was only small. 32 pages, 24.5x15.5 cm (9¾x6 ins), illustrated, soft cover.
Price: AU$10.00 per copy.

Slave Medallion book
“Josiah Wedgwood’s Slave Medallion” by L. Richard Smith, noted collector and authority on all aspects of Wedgwood.

This is the Second Revised Edition published in 1999 by the Wedgwood Society of NSW, Sydney. Limited to 500 copies. 28 pages, A5 size (8¼x6 ins), illustrated, soft cover.
Price: AU$5.00 per copy.

Wedgwood Marks Guide
“A Guide to Wedgwood Marks” by L. Richard Smith, long time collector and authority on all aspects of Wedgwood.

Published in 1997 by The Wedgwood Press, Sydney. 16 pages, A5 size (8¼x6 ins), soft cover.
Price: AU$5.00 per copy.

Sydney Cove Medallion book
“The Sydney Cove Medallion” by L. Richard Smith, collector and authority on Wedgwood.

Published in 1987 by The Wedgwood Press, Sydney. 34 pages, A5 size (8¼x6 ins), illustrated, soft cover.
Price: AU$5.00 per copy.
Note: Very limited stock. Most are not in top condition as the covers are rubbed. When these are gone there will be no more.

Three books
Special offer
The three books above together with a Jasper Kangaroo Cameo in your choice of colour. See below for details of the Kangaroo Cameo.
Price: This is a AU$25.00 value for AU$20.00, postage free in Australia.

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Four Kangaroo Cameos
Above: Wedgwood Jasper Cameos depicting Australia’s familiar Kangaroo produced to special order for The Wedgwood Society of NSW. These make interesting display pieces or, with suitable attachments, can be worn as pendants, brooches, etc.

The four different colour combinations are shown above— Black on cane; White on black; White on blue and White on terracotta. Size approx 34 mm (1-3/8 inches) diameter. Each is marked on the back - "WEDGWOOD / MADE IN ENGLAND"
Price: AU$10.00 each or AU$30.00 for the set of four. Plus overseas postage.

Order any of the above items by e-mail from The Wedgwood Society of NSW. Add overseas postage, Australian orders are postage free.
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