Staffordshire Figure Association

English Treasure Hunt

Several SFA members just completed a week-long rigorous hunt for figures throughout Lincolnshire and at the Antiques for Everyone show. The Kirchhoffs, Bo Rose, Elinor Penna, and rookie Bettie Hamilton, saw UK members Barbara Gair, David Boyer, Martyn Edgell and Stephen Smith on their travels.

Staffordshire Figure Association Meeting 2012

This year we hope to go to Dallas, Texas from October 13-15. Members will be coming from all over, including such far reaches as Massachusetts, California and Kent, England. On Saturday the 13th we will go to Tyler to see two collections, some roses (Tyler is the rose capitol of the USA) and Billie and Bill Hartley have invited us for a Texas BBQ at lunchtime.

Really fun and educational too. The SFA meeting includes a show/sale by specialist dealers after lunch on the Monday. Last year thirty plus members met in Williamsburg, VA. in September and enjoyed excursions by bus to see marvellous Museums in Jamestown and Williamsburg. Our meetings include interesting speakers and a private sale, plus free appraisals by experts from the UK and the USA.

Anyone is welcome to join the SFA!

2011 Staffordshire Figure Association Conference

Our meeting at Williamsburg was wonderful. Not a single hurricane! We had between 33 and 40 attendees at our events with members coming from as far as California, Texas, and Louisiana. David Tulk (Madelena) represented our UK members. The museums at Jamestown and Colonial Williamsburg were full of treasures and our private ceramic studies were fabulous. Many thanks to curators Suzanne Hood and John Austin for their presentations, and thanks as well to Kim Overman who addressed the annual meeting. Not the least important was our dinner at the tavern! Please keep in mind 2012. We are hoping for Dallas in early November. Click on the images below to enlarge.

Get connected!

Joining the SFA is a great way of meeting other collectors. Recently, a couple of our Michigan members visited two collectors in California, and wrote ‘… it was a very rewarding visit. They were most gracious to us, and their home and collections are absolutely outstanding. We had just a delightful time, and appreciated the wonderful way all was displayed. Amazed at [their] Queen Victoria window, plus pieces of Staffordshire [royalty] that we've never seen. Absolutely FABULOUS!!!!!!!’

2011 New York Antique Week

Leslie Frost and her daughter Betsy Morison caught up with Rick Hall and Bill Shaeffer at the Pier Show in NYC for Antique Week.

2012 Staffordshire Figure Association Conference

         We plan to go to Dallas, Texas in November 2012.    Mark your calendars now!

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Bettianne Sweeney will give SFA members free tickets for the 2011 Thanksgiving Holiday Antiques Show in Williamsburg VA.     Click the links below to read about last year's show.

http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/AntiquesShows/2010-12-14__12-59-35.html

http://www.urbanartantiques.com/2010/holiday-williamsburg-2010/

2010 Staffordshire Figure Association Conference

The 2010 meeting in Sturbridge, Massachusetts was terrific. This is not just one opinion, this is the result of lots of feedback from those who attended. We had great Fall weather, a bus driver with a sense of humor, wonderful food and terrific hosts: Leslie Frost in Andover, Chris Hagger in Wayland and Stuart Slavid at Skinner in Marlborough.

The speakers at the meeting were really interesting. Rebecca Beall from Old Sturbridge Village talked first hand about collecting and collections, which was perfect, and Americana collector Rex Stark continued on the same theme. The sale was fun and we had three new members joining us for the day.

This meeting will be hard to beat but Williamsburg promises to be fantastic next year.

Linda Sarna, Susan and Sandy Bishop, David Tulk and Greg Sarna

Rick Hall with Bo and Sandi Rose

2009 Staffordshire Figure Association Conference

The 2009 SFA meeting in Lambertville was a great success by every measure. Members came from California, Oregon, Texas, England, and many points in between. The speakers were fabulous and fifty-three attended the meeting and sale