Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Fairmede Golf Club Distributor: Fred S. Campbell – San Francisco Date of platter: circa 1925-1931     Notes: Fairmede Golf Club was located four miles north of Richmond, California, on a 151-acre parcel that had once been part of a larger plot of land owned by

Manufacturer: Sterling China User: Solari's Grill Date of creamer: 1930s to 1950s   Notes: The original Solari's Grill was located at 911 Ellis Street near Van Ness Avenue and opened on July 14, 1906. After success at the first location, Camille Solari and his brother Fred moved the restaurant to

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Seventh Avenue Hotel Date of shard: circa 1906-1912   Notes: The Seventh Avenue Hotel, on the corner of 300 7th and 900 Liberty Avenues, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, opened around 1872. It was a six-story building with around 250 rooms.  A 1911 envelope lists four dining rooms, American

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Page's Dairy (Page Dairy) Date of plate: circa 1928-1930   Notes: Henry A. Page was born in Chippenham, England in 1879, and immigrated to America at the age of nine in 1888. His family settled in Dixon, Illinois, where he attended public schools with his three

Manufacturer: D.E. McNicol China  (Toulaine China) User: Country Club of York Distributor: M.L. Hoechstrtter Co. – Pittsburgh, Penn. Date of plate:  circa 1914-1931   Notes: The Country Club of York is located at 1400 Country Club Road in York, Pennsylvania. According to its current website, it was established in 1899,

Manufacturer: Greenwood Pottery User: Gilbert Transportation Company Distributor: Jones, McDuffee & Stratton Co. – Boston, Mass. Date of bowl: circa 1900-1909   Notes: From the Mystic River Historical Society, "Two brothers, Mark and Osgood Gilbert, came to Mystic in the early 20th century to open a shipyard in the middle

Manufacturers: Carr China and McNicol China User: Boy Scout Camp LeRoy Edwards Date of Carr China plate: 1949 Date of McNicol China plate: circa 1949-1960s   Notes: In the late 1940s, Wheeler Bachman, president of the Carr China Company, donated funds to build a Boy Scout Camp (Troop No. 3,

  The Dinkler Hotel System was founded by Louis Jacob Dinkler, who was born in Nashville, Tennessee in the 1860s. He was the son Jacob and Josephine Dinkler. His father had been an immigrant from Germany's Bavaria Region and worked as a baker or confectioner. L.J. followed in his father's

Manufacturer: Unknown User: Up Top Dining Room, Hotel Ansley Distributor: Albert Pick & Company Date of platter: After 1924     Notes: Opened in 1913 with 14 floors on Williams Street between Forsyth and Fairlie streets in Atlanta, Georgia, the Hotel Ansley operated until 1952 when it was purchased by