Manufacturer: Iroquois China and Syracuse China User: The Tacoma Hotel – Mermaid Room Date of Round Edge Salad Bowl: 1917 – 1935 Date of Round Edge Soup Bowl: pre 1920's   Notes: Designed in a modified Tudor style by celebrated architect Stanford White, the Hotel Tacoma opened August 8, 1884 in

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Tabor Academy Date of fruit bowl: 1966   Notes: Tabor was founded in 1876 as a school for children from Marion, Massachusetts, by a bequest in the will of Elizabeth Taber, a wealthy widow from the town. She didn't wish to name the school after her, so

Manufacturer: Kobe, Fukui, Japan User: T.S.K. (Toyko Senpaku Kaisha) Line Date of cup & saucer: Unknown   Notes: T.S.K. (Toyko Senpaku Kaisha), a freighter and container operation, was established in Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan in 1949 and is still in business as of 2010. Striped house flag surrounded by buoy in dark

Manufacturer: Wallace China User: Hotel Ryde Date of platter: 1948   Notes: The Hotel Ryde was built in 1927 in the heart of the Sacramento delta in Walnut Grove, CA. The hotel has seen many changes over the years: it has been a riverboat way station, a bordello, even a boarding

Manufacturer: Buffalo China User: Hotel Ryde Date of creamer: 1927   Notes: The Hotel Ryde was built in 1927 in the heart of the Sacramento delta in Walnut Grove, Calif. The hotel has seen many changes over the years: it has been a riverboat way station, a bordello, even a boarding

Manufacturer: Mayer China Pattern: Rutland Date of cup: 1961   Notes: Stylized floral rim pattern in shades of blue. Also found in black and brown. ID and cup photos contributed by reddygal Butterpat photos contributed by lady*bird

Manufacturer: Buffalo Pottery/Buffalo China User: Roycroft Inn Pattern: Renaissance (known name for one reproduction china pattern only, see photo of the reproduction pattern below) Date of plates: Original, yellowed, with crazing: ~1905-~1916; reproduction: 1980s   Notes: Web site The Roycroft Inn opened in 1905 to provide housing for the streams of visitors to

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Royal Pines Hotel, Pinewald, New Jersey Date of plate: 1920s   Notes: The eight-story concrete-and-steel Royal Pines was built in the early 1920s in Berkeley Township, Ocean County, south of Toms River, and was said to have been frequented by Al Capone. Built at a cost of

Manufacturers: Greenwood Pottery and Syracuse China User: Royal Palace Hotel Greenwood Distributor: James M. Shaw & Co., New York Date of Greenwood matchstand: circa 1903 – 1910 Date of Syracuse bowl: 1909   Notes: The Royal Palace Hotel was built in 1903, in Atlantic City, New Jersey by F. N. Pike.