October Update

We thought it was an appropriate time to give an update on the work that’s been going on to maintain and update the Australian Pottery Marks sites on WordPress and Flickr.

· In the past 2 months an additional 80 potters have been added to the A-Z listings (and to the relevant state pages) on this site…..there are still quite a few to go before “new” entries will be added.

· The challenge of adding images of potters marks to the ‘Selected Images for….’ linked from this site has been resolved thanks to Ray Garrod (our volunteer IT guru) and David Rofe.

A start has now been made on adding these images, but it is going to be a relatively slow process, so please be patient.

· These images are actually stored on a Flickr page, which is linked from this site. Currently there are over 2,800 potters marks stored on the Flickr page.

This requires an annual subscription to maintain the ‘Flickr Pro Account’ for the linked page. If this is not kept current, then Flickr will delete all images stored there.

Ray Garrod has been currently paying a ‘gift of pro’ to keep the Flickr account active over the past month, which halted the deletion process.

In order maintain the Flickr page of potter’s marks, we are seeking contributions to a GoFundMe account to ensure the pottery marks images can continue to be added to and maintained on the Flickr site.

UPDATE: THANK YOU to everyone who has donated, the support is wonderful. The funding goal was achieved in under 6 hours, and the gofundme page will now close…….we are able to keep the flickr potters marks page going for the next 2 years!

Thanks for your continued support of this important resource.