Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Farrell Lines Date of plate: 1973 Notes: According to an employee, who worked for the Farrell Lines in the 1960s and early 1970s, this pattern featuring two sea horses was used aboard the African Comet or new container ships for the Australian service. In contrast, the pattern

Manufacturer: Carr China User: Farmers Trust and Savings Bank Distributor: Mutual China Co., Indianapolis, IN Date of bowl: 1917 – 1952 Notes: Originally chartered in 1892 as the German Savings Bank in Earling, Iowa, the bank became the Farmers Trust and Savings Bank in 1917. In 2009, the bank had three

Manufacturer: Jackson China Pattern: Farm Animals (Airbrushed) Date of grill plates:  blue, 1954; pink, 1956; multi, 1963-circa 1973 Notes: Farm animals in this juvenile pattern include a lamb, a pig and a mother duck with her three ducklings in three airbrushed variations on the pattern. Actual pattern name or number used

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern: Fanfare Date of plate: 1960s Notes: Different parts of this pattern design are on different sizes and shapes of pieces. For a similar pattern: Satellite by Walker China Photos contributed by Sarah Nolan Allen

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: The Family Keep Young Date of demi set: 1983 Date of matchstand: 1931 Notes: The Family Keep Young is a private club located at 545 Powell St., San Francisco, CA, with a rural property called The Family Farm located 35 miles south in Woodside, CA. The Family

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Falmouth Hotel Date of creamer: 1911 – 1916 Notes: The six-story, 200-room Falmouth Hotel was located at 212 Middle Street in Portland, Maine. Built in 1867, by John B. Brown, at a cost of $300,000, it opened on June 29, 1868. The hotel's register bears the names

Manufacturer: Unknown, not Buffalo China User/Pattern name: Fake/Fantasy J. Palleys Hambone Date: Unknown Notes: This piece is not made by Buffalo China, not considered restaurant ware, but appears with enough regularity in antique shops and on the Internet that we're including it with these disclaimers. It has a fake Buffalo

Manufacturer: Unknown, not Buffalo China User/Pattern name: J. Palleys Hambone Date: Unknown Notes: This piece is not made by Buffalo China, not considered restaurant ware, but appears with enough regularity in antique shops and on the Internet that we're including it with these disclaimers. It has a fake Buffalo backstamp

Manufacturers: Carr China and Jackson China User: Famous Hot Wiener Lunch (variously spelled: Famous Hot Weiner Lunch) Date of Carr plate, 1940; date range of Jackson cup, 1946-65 Notes: Located at the corner of York Street and Broadway, in Hanover, Pennsylvania, and opened in 1923, Famous Hot Wiener Lunch is housed in