Manufacturer: Langenthal in Switzerland User: Hotel Du Rhone – Geneva, Switzerland Distributor: M. Stieger & Cie – Berne – Lausanne Date of bowl: 1970   Notes: According to an article in the Houston Post dated Feb. 19, 1950, the Hotel Du Rhone in Geneva, Switzerland, was built in 1950 by

Manufacturer: Scammell China, Trenton China User: LeKas, Peoria, Illinois Date of examples: circa 1925-1940   Notes: LeKas was founded in 1907 in Peoria, Illinois, at 510 Main Street. In 1917, LeKas moved to 422 Main Street. At that time, it was operated as "Illinois Sugar Bowl." The dining room section

Manufacturer: Scammell China, Lamberton China User: LeKas, Peoria, Illinois Date of examples: circa 1925-1940   Notes: LeKas was founded in 1907 in Peoria, Illinois, at 510 Main Street. In 1917, LeKas moved to 422 Main Street. At that time, it was operated as "Illinois Sugar Bowl." The dining room section

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Lamb's Cafe, Chicago, Illinois Distributor: Albert Pick & Co. Date of examples: Circa 1910 – 1920   Notes: Lamb's Cafe opened on December 29, 1910, in the basement of Chicago's Ashland Block Building, located at Randolph and Clark streets. William J. "Smiley" Corbett and his business partner, John Wilmes,

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Name of user:  Koerner's Restaurant, St. Louis, Missouri Distributor: St. Louis Glass & Queensware Co. Date of examples: Circa 1900-1913   Notes:  In 1875, Ernst Albert Koerner arrived in the United States from his native Germany as a young man who had already served his apprenticeship in the restaurant

Manufacturer: Scammell China, Sterling China User: Klas Restaurant, Cicero, Illinois Date of examples: 1930s – 1960s   Notes: In 1922, Adolph Klas, an immigrant from Pilsen in Bohemia, opened his restaurant at 5734 W. Cermak Road in Cicero, Illinois – a Chicago suburb. From the Wikipedia, "Klas had previously worked at

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery, Scammell China User: King Fong restaurant Distributor: Tilden Thurber Corporation Date of examples: Circa 1913-1925   Notes: The King Fong restaurant occupied space on the right end of the ground floor at 205 Weybosset Street, across from the Crown Hotel and the Outlet department store in Providence, R.I. Not

Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Keeley's Ice Cream Date of platter: pre-1930s   Notes: A September 1895 story in Utah's Deseret News was written as a bit of a puff piece for Keeley's Ice Cream, which was founded by A. C. Keeley, who had begun in the "confectionery business here five

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Co. Name of user: Keeley's Palace of Sweets, Madison, Wisconsin Distributor: Albert Pick & Co. Date of example: Circa 1904 – 1919   Notes: In 1897, James Yarnell Keeley opened his Palace of Sweets at 109 State Street in Madison, Wisconsin. It quickly became popular with students at the