Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: White Elephant Hotel Dates of examples: Doubled handled soup bowl: 1936 Soup plate and service plate: 1963   Notes: The White Elephant Hotel is located at 50 Easton Street in Nantucket, Massachusetts.  Originally built in the early 1920s, it has been sold and remodeled numerous times. 

Manufacturer: Scammell China Distributor: Barth Equipment Co., New York City User: Ship Grill Restaurants Date of examples: circa 1928-54   Notes: Born Feb. 21, 1901, Olin Chester Potter graduated from Cornell University in 1922 and then studied interior design for two years in New York City. In 1924, Potter began organizing

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Sharf's Restaurant Pattern name: St. Marie, underglaze transfer print pattern, #6259 Date of butter pat: 1930s – 1948   Notes: No so-called smoking gun has been found to tie this butter pat directly to Sharf's Restaurant in Phoebus, Virginia – now part of the present-day city

Manufacturer: Jackson China User: Rampart Steak House Date of bowl: circa 1967 – 1968   Notes: The Rampart Steak House was located at 2031 N.E. 36th Street, Lighthouse Point, Florida. It opened in 1967 under the Shendo of America banner, an organization that already had two other steak houses in

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Laughery Club  Date of examples: circa 1900 – 1911   Notes: The Laughery Club was located on the Indiana side of the Ohio River about halfway between Rising Sun and Aurora, almost opposite Laughery Island and near Laughery Creek. In actuality, the closest big city is

Manufacturer: Petrus Regout & Co., / Royal Sphinx – Maastricht, Netherlands User: d' Amstelhoek Date of plate: probably 1950s   Notes: Little is known about the Café d' Amstelhoek, a restaurant located in Amsterdam that seems to have been in business possibly from the late 19th century and, based on the

Manufacturer: Buffalo China User: Arctic Club, Seattle Distributor: J. B. & Sons, Inc., Seattle Date of creamer: 1918   Notes: The Arctic Club was formed in 1908 by successful veterans of the Klondike Gold Rush. It was a fraternal men's club, in Seattle, for businessmen with Gold Rush connections. The

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Idle Hour Country Club, Lexington, Kentucky Date of plate: 1982   Notes: According to the club's website, the Idle Hour Country Club was founded on Nov. 19, 1946 in Lexington, Kentucky, as an invitation-only club, with "clubhouse, dining facilities, golf course, tennis courts, fitness center, and

Manufacturer: Scammell China Distributor: Star Products Co., Wilkes-Barre, Penn. User: Rushin's Forest Hills Inn Date of examples: circa 1935 -1954   Notes: The earliest known advertisement for Rushin's appears in the Aug. 3, 1935, issue of the Wilkes-Barre Times Leader. In a Sept. 7, article the next month, proprietor Andrew Rushin