The 1904 issue of the Museums Journal outlines the scope of the North Staffordshire Technical, Art, and Industrial Museum, as follows, including Egyptian material:

Nature of Collections.— (i) Paintings, oil and water-colour ; (2) Stafiford-
shire and other pottery ; (3) Minerals ; (4) Fossils ; (5) Birds; (6) British
Lepidoptera ; (7) Working models ; (8) Loan collection from the
Board of Education ; (9) Collection of Turner drawings lent by the
National Gallery ; (10) Early Egyptian pottery, presented by Dr. W. Flinders Petrie.