Archive 1
Brown Palace
Manufacturer: Hall China User: Brown Palace Hotel & Spa – Denver, CO Date of matchstand: 1930 – 1970s Notes: The Brown Palace Hotel & Spa is located at 321 17th Street in Denver, Colorado and is the second-oldest operating hotel in Denver after the Oxford Hotel. Designed by Frank Edbrooke,
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Brown Swan Club
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Brown Swan Club, Schroon Lake, NY Date of plate: 1945   Notes: The 100-room Brown Swan Club was built prior to 1925. By the early 1950s, the number of rooms was reduced to 68. On Aug. 15, 1953, the main house was purchased by Preacher Jack
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Brown Swan Club 2
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Brown Swan Club Date of plate: 1928 Notes: The Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., has photos of this pattern on its website with the information that it was used at the Brown Swan Club on Schroon Lake in New York. The 100-room Brown Swan
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Brownie's Lunch
Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Brownie's Lunch Date of saucer: 1930s – early 1940s Notes: The Mayan Ware saucer might have seen use at one of several known Brownie's Lunch spots: Brownie's Lunch, Reid Hill, Fourth Ward, Amsterdam, N.Y., owned by Raymond Krzys and frequented by Mickey Mantle; Brownie's Lunch, near
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Brushade
Manufacturer: Jackson China Pattern: Brushade Date: 1930 -1946 Notes: White body with mottled brush-stroke design in bright green, rust-orange, maroon and blue. Stern's Stakup was developed by Fred Stern who gave the rights to Jackson China in 1930 to manufacture his design which helped eliminate breakage and was also space-saving
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Buccaneer Hotel
Manufacturer: Schonwald, Germany User: Hotel Buccaneer, Galveston, TX Date of platter: Unknown Notes: Built in 1929 on Seawall Avenue as one of Galveston's first tourist hotels. It closed in 1961 and was demolished in 1999. For related info: Buccaneer Hotel 2 also by Schonwald
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Buccaneer Hotel 2
Manufacturer: Schonwald, Germany User: Buccaneer Hotel Date of plate: circa 1935 – 1950 Notes: This 11-story, 400-room hotel was built on the corner of 23rd & Seawall in 1929 on the ocean side of Galveston, TX. The hotel was a Hilton early on, and then a National Hotel. It survived
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Bucking Bronco 2
Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern name: Bucking Bronco Date of plate: 1912 Notes: This design is shown in plate #15 on page 11 of "Syracuse China" by Cleota Reed and Stan Skoczen. However, high-resolution photos of both plates have been examined by an expert in Syracuse China processes, who believes rather
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Bucking Horse
Manufacturer: Carr China Pattern: Bucking Horse Date of plate: 1940s Notes: This pattern was originally dubbed Bucking Bronco by RWCN members, but in looking at the pattern in a notebook compiled by Joy Bachman, her hand-written notes refer to it as "Bucking Horse." She was the wife of Carr's last
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