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Carr Sample Plate – M145 – 6
Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Sample Plate – M145 – 6 Date of plate: circa 1934 – 1937   Notes: Nothing is known about this pattern other than what is shown on the backstamp: Standard Sample M145 – 6 Although this plate does not have the handwritten "M" that appears on
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Haversham Inn
Manufacturer:  Scammell China Co. User: Haversham Inn, Westerly, Rhode Island Date of examples: Circa 1924-1954   Notes: What is now the Haversham Inn was built around 1870 by Capt. William Sidney Gavitt and was first used as a boarding house named Ocean View House. The dining room seated about 30 guests.
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Carson Pirie Scott 2
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Carson Pirie Scott Date of plate: 1947   The Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store was founded in Chicago in 1854 by Samuel Carson and John Pirie. It eventually grew into a chain with 50 locations and was also known as Carson's. Their flagship Chicago
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Mead's
Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Mead's Pattern: Underglaze Print Pattern #6003 Distributor: The Stearnes Co. – Chicago Date of platter: circa 1920s   Notes: Handsome platter with italic Mead's with a swash has a mystery user. The border pattern is Carr's Underglaze Print Pattern #6003. For additional info: Carr Print Pattern:
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Camp Merrie-Woode
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Camp Merrie-Woode Date of examples: 1958   Notes: Camp Merrie-Woode on Lake Fairfield in Sapphire, North Carolina, was founded in 1919 as Lake Fairfield Camp by Marjorie Harrison, an English professor from Tazewell, Virginia. In 1922, it was purchased by Mabel Pye Day, a leader in
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Hot Springs of Arkansas
Manufacturer: Carr China User: Hot Springs of Arkansas Distributor: Dulin & Martin Co., Washington, D.C. Date of cup (#194 Soda, Bell Top, Handled): Early 1920s   Notes: The Quapaw Indians were native to the land that is now Hot Springs in central Arkansas, but by 1832 they had been forced
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Syracuse Pattern No. 67803 – Craig Hall
Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern: Underglaze Print Pattern No. 67803 – Craig Hall Date of Demi Cup: 1922   Notes: Border design of thistles with brown blooms and buds and leaves that are both green and blue gray. For additional info: Craig Hall by Syracuse China Maddock Pattern #7055 – Craig Hall
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Maddock Pattern #7055 – Craig Hall Thistle Border
Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Pattern: Craig Hall Thistle Border – #7055 Date of example: circa 1910 – 1920   Notes: Decal border design of green thistles with orange blooms which flank the hotel crest of three thistle blooms within a bellflower wreath. Below the wreath is an upper-case Old English-style "C
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Craig Hall
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Craig Hall Pattern: Underglaze Print Pattern 67803 Date of demi cup: 1922 Date of platter: 1929   Notes: Craig Hall was located on South Illinois Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was originally built by John Weyth as the Garden Hotel in 1897. However, in
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