Manufacturer: Scammell China Co. User: Tudor City Date of plate: Circa 1929-1930s   Notes: In 1927 real estate developer Fred F. French began turning a former slum area overlooking the East River in New York City into his vision of an urban Utopia. By the time The French Company completed the

Manufacturer: Mayer China Pattern Name: True Ivory Elephant Sample Tray Date of tray: 1930s – 1950s  

Manufacturer: Mayer China Pattern name: Troy Date of bowl: 1964   Notes: The Greek key border pattern is executed in a rust brown. It is a pattern known to be used by the New York Athletic Club with the addition of the winged foot logo, as shown above. ID and photos contributed

Manufacturer: Jackson China Pattern Name: Trout (Red Stencil Airbrushed) Date of examples: 1955 – 1970s Note: Distributed by Kalberer Hotel Supply, Portland, OR

Manufacturer: Unknown User: Trout House Date of creamer: Unknown – most likely circa 1900-29   Notes: The Trout House was built by John Wheeler in 1863 as a boarding house. Relative Charles Wheeler expanded the boarding house to the 22-room Trout House hotel by the 1890s, and it became one of

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern name: Tropics – Syracuse Overglazed Pattern #P-181 Date of plate: 1933   Note: See Art Moderne and Fruit Moderne for similar artisan-looking Syracuse backstamps, though with a different body color. The tan Adobe Ware plate depicts a flamingo walking among bamboo stalks. It is shown on page 206 of a

Manufacturer: Mayer China Pattern name: Tropic Date of examples: 1940s-1950s   Border of pink and blue flowers on green vine. Photos courtesy of ebay seller cashintheattic2

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church Pattern name: Mistic border #70501 Distributor: Charles Hall, Inc., 411 Main St., Springfield, Mass. Date of plate: Circa 1923   Notes: Located at 361 Summer Ave., in Springfield, Mass., in 1922, Grace Church merged with Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church (which had been formed back

Manufacturer: Sterling China User: Triangle Restaurants Date of egg cup: circa 1930   Notes: From the book, Dining in Chicago, by John Drury, Copyright 1931: "D. L. Toffenetti built a chain of 6 Triangle Restaurants in the Loop of Chicago within the last 10 years, with the present 57 West Randolph Street