Owners Contributions
A huge thank you to everybody who has contacted us to share their Till & Sons pieces and information over the years and more recently.
We are presently organising and transferring lots of images that owners have kindly agreed to allow us to share on our website.
If you have anything that may be of interest to us we are always delighted to receive any information.
Please email thomastillsons1825@gmail.com or chatawayalice@gmail.com
About us
So we have finally made the decision to move and create a newer and fresher looking Till & Son/s Online Museum which, hopefully, will be much easier to navigate when it is finished!
First of all - the original online museum will remain but we will be revising and transferring much of the information across here and including many more features and examples of Thomas Till's excellent wares.
We have no reason to doubt that we still have the largest worldwide collection of Till, including some earlier examples of Barker, Sutton & Till and Barker & Till before Thomas embarked on his own and brought his two sons into the business.
Hard to believe that we only started our collection in 2006 and that was purely a fluke. We saw a Venus plate as we were passing a secondhand shop on the Isle of Lewis. It turned out to be the best part of a 12 piece dinner service which we still have. It cost just £30!
Our collection is mostly boxed up at present. Our home was becoming THE museum and it was fast becoming impossible to decorate or complete any major house changes without having to carefully move pieces around all the time. And the dusting!
So we are hoping to be able to find a way of raising funds to build somewhere to hold our collection and looking at a way of running a private museum that will be available to visitors by prior arrangement.
We hope you enjoy the new website and look forward to receiving photos of your Till items.
Best regards,
Christine & Mike
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“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Pablo Picasso
We hope you enjoy browsing our collection and return to see the frequent updates of both the history and pottery image examples.
To the best of our knowledge we have the largest collection of Till & Son/s pottery worldwide and have identified many named patterns and numerous unnamed patterns.
Since we started the collection in 2006 many people have contacted us with details of their own Till items, details of the Till family and others enquiring about whether their items are Till as, helpfully, not all items are clearly marked.
Each pattern was produced in many forms and for different function. We have discovered many more forms and variations than we could have anticipated when we first began our research. Our collection continues to grow and people often contact us from around the world and allow us to use photographs of their own items which we are very grateful for.
We are fascinated by all the different patterns and forms of Till pottery and feel that the company was strangely under-rated and under-reported in terms of accessing information about the company so we hope to address this.
Please leave your comments on this site - feedback, positive or negative, is really helpful to us in building this site to ensure that it becomes a useful and reliable source for Staffordshire collectors, antique dealers and social historians. However, although we want this to be an accurate and useful resource it remains a hobby to us and it is important that we are accessible to all and anybody can feel confident about approaching us with their enquiry, no matter how small.