Archive 1
Tidal
Manufacturer: McNicol China Pattern Name: Tidal Date of plate: 1950s-1960s   Notes: White body with green airbrushed wavy rim design. Similar patterns were produced by other manufacturers with airbrushed waves, crests, scrolls or rick rack designs around the rim. For related info: Everglade by Shenango China Crest Green by Buffalo China Lancer by Jackson
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Thursday Club
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: The Thursday Club of San Diego Date of plate: 1936   Notes: Located at 1224 Santa Barbara St., San Diego, CA, The Thursday Club of San Diego was founded in 1921 and its clubhouse above the Sunset Cliffs in Point Loma was completed in 1928. The arched
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Thunderbird Country Club
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Thunderbird Country Club Date of plate: 1982   Notes: The Thunderbird Country Club was was built in 1952 in Rancho Mirage, CA, where the first golf cart was introduced in 1954. The club house was replaced in 2004 complete with function rooms and a beautiful spa. The
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Thornton
Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern: Thornton, print decoration #47900 Date of examples: varied   Notes: Please read the Empire entry for the reasons why this pattern was so named by authors of books on railroad dining car china. O.P.Co., the longtime archivist at Syracuse China and RWCN member, has pointed out that Syracuse's name
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Thornburg Hotel Company
Manufacturer: Bailey-Walker China User: Thornburg Hotel Company, Muncie, Indiana Pattern name: Black Seville Distributor: Reichle-Ueber Co. Date of Plate: circa 1924 – 1942   Notes: Alonzo Clifford Thornburg, of Delaware County, Ind., worked his way up through the Muncie hotels, beginning as a waiter, then clerk and later manager of the cigar
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Thore, O.M.
Manufacturer: Rorstrand, Sweden User: Thore, O.M. Distributor: Emil Palmgren, Helsingborg, Sweden Date of examples: Unknown   Notes: Swedish shipping line. White body, blue house flag consisting of a white circle with a blue T inside. Matching blue band around rim. Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels ID and photos contributed by reddygal
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Thompson's Lunch Room 3
Manufacturers: Carr China, Syracuse China User: Thompson's Lunch Room Date of Carr egg cup: 1930s – 1940s; Syracuse cup (not shown): 1934   Notes: John R. Thompson moved to Chicago in 1891 and opened his first restaurant on State Street. By 1914, Thompson incorporated with 68 lunchrooms and a commissary, as
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Thompson's Lunch Room 2
Manufacturer: McNicol China User: Thompson's Lunch Room Date of cup: circa 1950 Notes: John R. Thompson moved to Chicago in 1891 and opened his first restaurant on State Street. By 1914, Thompson incorporated with 68 lunchrooms and a commissary, as well as a chain of grocery stores, later expanding throughout the
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Thompson's Lunch Room
Manufacturer: W.H. Grindley, England User: Thompson's Lunch Room Pattern: Thornley Date of examples: circa 1908 – 1920   Notes: John R. Thompson moved to Chicago in 1891 and opened his first restaurant on State Street. By 1914, Thompson incorporated with 68 lunchrooms and a commissary, as well as a chain of grocery
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