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British Museum - Department of Coins and Medals
The Department of Coins and Medals is home to one of the world's finest
numismatic collections, comprising about one million objects. The collection
spans the entire history of coinage from its origins in the 7th century
BC to the present day, and related material such as coin weights, tokens
and money-boxes.
http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/cm/cmhome.html
Heberden Coin Room - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The Heberden Coin Room houses a systematic and comprehensive collection
of some three hundred thousand coins and medals. It has an academic staff
of six and is a leading international centre for teaching and research
in numismatics and monetary history.
http://www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/departments/coin-room/
The Celtic Coin Index
The original Celtic Coin Index at Oxford is organized by Celtic Coin Index
number, a unique identification number indicating the year and order in
which each specimen was catalogued. When Hooker & Perron built the
Celtic Coin Index Online, we wanted the records to be easier to find, so
we organized them within their own context. The coin records (within the
broad divisions of British and Continental Celtic), are sorted Geographically
by Region, then by Tribe within each region, then, in the British issues,
by Van Arsdell numbers, which shows summaries of each coin, leading to
individual detailed coin records. You can navigate through the records
by tribe and type, or go to the search page, and look for any information
of interest to you.
http://www.writer2001.com/cciwriter2001/
Oriental Numismatic Society
The Oriental Numismatic Society (ONS) was founded in 1970 to foster interest
in the study and collection of all series of oriental coinage, from North
Africa and Muslim Spain to the Far East. Open to amateurs and professionals
alike, it now has over 500 members world-wide.
http://www.onsnumis.org/
Ceramics
Friends of Blue
The Club, founded 1973, exists to study under-glaze blue decoration using
a transfer print, a technique developed in Britain during the last two
decades of the eighteenth century, when patterns deriving from contemporary
Chinese porcelain designs began to appear. Many of these early designs
were very similar to what we know today as Willow Pattern. As time went
on, however, and techniques improved and tastes changed, every kind of
design imaginable was used, from stately homes to bowls of flowers, from
historical scenes to ships at sea.
http://www.fob.org.uk/
The Northern Ceramic Society
The Northern Ceramic Society was founded in 1972 by a small group of enthusiastic collectors. From small beginnings, the Society has grown substantially and now has nearly a thousand members in the UK and overseas.
The Northern Ceramic Society (NCS) is a registered UK charity whose objectives are the study of the history and manufacture of ceramics (principally British) of the last five centuries and of the social history of the ceramics industry and its key figures. All aspects of production are considered, including design, manufacture and decoration, and also marketing and ultimate use.
http://www.northernceramicsociety.org/
The Wedgwood Museum
The Wedgwood Museum contains the world's greatest collection of Wedgwood
ceramics, ranging from a unique collection of Josiah Wedgwood’s original
trials for the perfection of Queen's Ware, later delivered in the form
of a 900+ piece dinner service to Catherine the Great of Russia in 1774,
to a rare 5 foot high Exhibition Vase, decorated by Emile Lessore, the
only one of its kind in Britain.
http://www.wedgwoodmuseum.org.uk/