Manufacturer: Homer Laughlin China User: White Tower Date of platter: 1969   Notes: From Wikipedia, "White Tower Hamburgers was a fast food restaurant chain that was founded in 1926 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With its similar white fortress-like buildings and menu it is considered to be an imitator of White Castle

Manufacturer: O.P.Co. Syracuse User: Camp Undercliff Date of creamer: circa 1925   Notes: Camp Undercliff in Lake Placid, New York, was opened in 1880 as a private camp only accessible by boat. At some point it was owned by the New York Central Railroad and from 1939 to 1963, it

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User/Pattern name: Employees Potters Club Date of marked plate: 1910   Notes: Three of these cartoon plates have been discovered with what had to have been in-house jokes drawn and filled by unknown Syracuse designers. The outer rim designs are all different. From page 100 of "Syracuse

Manufacturer: Unknown User: Tait-Zinkand Café Date of creamer: early 1900's   Notes: The Tait-Zinkand Café located at 168 O'Farrell Street in San Francisco, California, opened in August 1909, in what was described as its new $100,000 home. An article in the Marin County Tocsin states,  "The dining room is finished

Manufacturers: Syracuse China and Buffalo China Pattern name: Violets and Daisies User: Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad, among many other establishments Date of Syracuse cup: 1950; date of Syracuse cup with RR backstamp: 1939   Notes: Violets and Daisies was a popular Syracuse stock pattern. Railroad experts note that the pattern,

Manufacturer: Bakewell Bros. Ltd.  –  England User: British India Steam Navigation Co.  Date of demitasse: circa 1927-1943   Notes: From Wikipedia, "British India Steam Navigation Company ("BI") was formed in 1856 as the Calcutta and Burmah Steam Navigation Company, which had been formed out of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, a

Manufacturer: Tepco China User: Trails Restaurants Date of mustard pot: circa 1950s   Notes: There were two Trails restaurants opened in Sacramento, California, in the mid-1950s by a company owned/run by Esther Williams and her husband, Ben Gage. The restaurants didn't do very well and they went into receivership and

Manufacturer: Globe Pottery Co. – England User: Mouquin Restaurant & Wine Co. Date of creamer: circa 1925-1934   Notes: Mouquin Restaurant & Wine Co. was founded in 1857, and located at 456 Sixth Avenue in Manhattan and was one of the Gilded Age restaurants of New York City. The building

Manufacturer: Iroquois China – Crane China, Puerto Rico User: No. 7 Queens Quarter Date of plate: circa 1948-1951   Notes: No. 7 Queens Quarter was a restaurant with a cocktail lounge and bar located in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, during the 1950s. When it actually opened and closed is not