Manufacturer: Buffalo China User: Sagamore Hotel Date of plate: 1929 – 1940s   Notes: Located at 111 East Avenue in Rochester, N.Y., the nine-story, 350-room Sagamore Hotel opened its doors in 1924. Designed by Gordon & Kaelber of Rochester, it was modeled after the Parc Lane Apartments in Chicago. It was

Manufacturer: Syrcause China User: Sabine Transportation Company Inc., Port Arthur, TX Date of mug: 1940   Notes: Listed in Poor's Register, still in business as of 1996. The flag is called "Diamond S." Founded in 1908 and has worked in tug, barge business on Mississippi & Missouri rivers and on the Gulf

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Sagamore Hotel Date of plate: 1927   Notes: The first Sagamore Hotel was completed in about 1885 and became a very popular summer resort for persons visiting the Adirondack upper New York Mountains. The hotel was located East Shore of Long Lake. It was under the primary

Manufacturer: Warwick China User: S.S. Grand View Point Hotel Distributor: Joseph Horne Co. – Pittsburgh, Pa. Date of custard cup: After 1932   Notes: The Lincoln Highway, Route 30, was the first coast to coast road built in America. As it wound its way through the mountains of Pennsylvania, motorists would

Manufacturer: Jackson China and Shenango China User: S&S Cafeterias Date of plate: 1974   Notes: The first S&S Cafeteria opened in Columbus, Georgia in 1936. Started by J.A. Smith Jr., this chain offers fresh southern food cafeteria-style. Locations are found in Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee and formerly in Florida and

Manufacturer: McNicol China Pattern: PL 210-17-17 Date of cup: 1931 – 1960s   Notes: The pattern number was found in a 1951 D.E. McNicol Pottery Company catalog. It is not known if McNicol ever referred to this pattern by anything but a number, but it appears to be McNicol's variation of

Manufacturers: Carr China Pattern name: The Harvard* Line treatment (Carr): L-22 Distributor: Fisher, Price & Co., Philadelphia Date: Circa 1920s – 1930s   Notes: The Harvard is a mystery among restaurant ware collectors, along with its three-lined look alike, The Ballaret. The Harvard is a name found backstamped on plain

Manufacturers: Carr China and Warwick China Pattern name: The Ballaret* Line treatment (Carr): L-22 Date of Carr: Circa 1920s – 1930s Date of Warwick: 1912 – circa 1920   Notes: The Ballaret is an enduring mystery among we restaurant ware collectors who happily specialize in the minutiae of the patterns.

Manufacturer: Sterling China User: Preservation Society of Newport County, R.I. Date of plate: 1980s – circa 2003   Notes: The reproduction plate is part of a line of contemporary restaurant ware commissioned by the Preservation Society of Newport County, R.I., in honor of suffragette Mrs. Alva Vanderbilt Belmont (1835-1933). Belmont commissioned