Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Lamb's Cafe, Chicago, Illinois Distributor: Albert Pick & Co. Date of examples: Circa 1910 – 1920   Notes: Lamb's Cafe opened on December 29, 1910, in the basement of Chicago's Ashland Block Building, located at Randolph and Clark streets. William J. "Smiley" Corbett and his business partner, John Wilmes,

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Name of user:  Koerner's Restaurant, St. Louis, Missouri Distributor: St. Louis Glass & Queensware Co. Date of examples: Circa 1900-1913   Notes:  In 1875, Ernst Albert Koerner arrived in the United States from his native Germany as a young man who had already served his apprenticeship in the restaurant

Manufacturer: Scammell China, Sterling China User: Klas Restaurant, Cicero, Illinois Date of examples: 1930s – 1960s   Notes: In 1922, Adolph Klas, an immigrant from Pilsen in Bohemia, opened his restaurant at 5734 W. Cermak Road in Cicero, Illinois – a Chicago suburb. From the Wikipedia, "Klas had previously worked at

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery, Scammell China User: King Fong restaurant Distributor: Tilden Thurber Corporation Date of examples: Circa 1913-1925   Notes: The King Fong restaurant occupied space on the right end of the ground floor at 205 Weybosset Street, across from the Crown Hotel and the Outlet department store in Providence, R.I. Not

Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Keeley's Ice Cream Date of platter: pre-1930s   Notes: A September 1895 story in Utah's Deseret News was written as a bit of a puff piece for Keeley's Ice Cream, which was founded by A. C. Keeley, who had begun in the "confectionery business here five

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Co. Name of user: Keeley's Palace of Sweets, Madison, Wisconsin Distributor: Albert Pick & Co. Date of example: Circa 1904 – 1919   Notes: In 1897, James Yarnell Keeley opened his Palace of Sweets at 109 State Street in Madison, Wisconsin. It quickly became popular with students at the

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Distributor: Mitchell Woodbury User: Frost & Dearborn Restaurant, Boston, Mass. Name of pattern: #5065 Frost & Dearborn Date of example: 1912 – 1923   Notes:  The Frost & Dearborn Restaurant was operated by Merrill Frost and John N. Dearborn. Its roots go back to 1839, when Morrill Frost

Manufacturers: Scammell China and Sterling China User: Brookside Inn, Hopewell, N.J. Date of examples: Circa 1930s to 1970s   Notes: In 1928, farmer Harry A. Titus of Woodville, N.J., opened a fruit and grocery stand with just two employees on his land on Route 30 in Hopewell, N.J. By August 1935, the

Manufacturer: (likely) J. & G. Meakin, England User: Ballard & Johnson Pattern name: (likely) Blue Atlantic Distributor (likely) Albert Pick & Company Date of compote/comport: early 20th century   Notes: The Ballard & Johnson company, founded by William W. Ballard, Jesse M. Johnson and ostensibly silent partner Hardage N. McGready,