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Buffalo Athletic Club 2
Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Buffalo Athletic Club Rim Pattern: Encanto Date of plate: 1957 Notes: In 1889, the club's first building was located at Washington and Mohawk Streets in the old Trinity Church/Liedertafel Hall building in Buffalo, N.Y. Original cost was $11,000 for the building and there were 550 members.
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Buffalo Club
Manufacturer: Buffalo China User: The Buffalo Club Date of creamer: mid-1960s – 1970s Notes: After serving as the President of the United States from 1850 to 1853, Millard Fillmore returned to Buffalo, N.Y. and was counted among the city's most influential citizens. In 1867, he joined 92 other like-minded gentlemen
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Bull and Bear
Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Bull and Bear Steakhouse & Bar, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Date of pitcher: July-September 1979 Notes: The Bull and Bear started out in the 1800s as bronze sculptures placed behind the original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel Bar, in honor of its patrons — primarily businessmen involved with the New York
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Bungalow Cafe
Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Bungalow Cafe Date of plate: 1951 Notes: Established in Dearborn, Mich., in 1925. According to the 1959 "Duncan Hines Adventures in Good Eating," the venue was located near the Henry Ford Museum. It had a main dining room with 90 seats and a congenial atmosphere and
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Bungalow Cafe 2
Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Bungalow Cafe Distributor: American China and Glassware Co. Date of plate: Circa 1925 – 1929 Notes: Established in Dearborn, Mich., in 1925. According to the 1959 "Duncan Hines Adventures in Good Eating," the venue was located near the Henry Ford Museum. It had a main dining
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Bunny's Waffle Shops
Manufacturer: TEPCO User: Bunny's Waffle Shops Date of creamer: 1931 – 1968 Notes: On June 14th and June 15th, 1935, two different opening ads for the Bunny's Waffle Shop in San Francisco appeared in the Reno Evening Gazette and Nevada State Journal (ads shown above). The bunnies depicted in these
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Burmese
Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern: Burmese Date of plate: March 1920 Notes: White body dinner plate with a red line, a band of flowers and cartouches on a non-metallic gold rim. A basket of flowers, bird on tree limb and butterfly are in the well of the plate. ID and photos
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BurMil Club
Manufacturer: Sterling China User: BurMil Club, Burlington Mills/Burlington Industries Date of sugar bowl: 1953 Notes: The BurMil Club was Burlington Mills' 250-acre recreational facility, located in Greensboro, N.C., home of its corporate headquarters at the time of the sugar bowls production. The company's name changed to Burlington Industries in 1955.
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Burnham & Morrill Baked Beans
Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Burnham & Morrill Baked Beans Distributor: Burley & Company, Chicago Date of Plate: 1905 – 1910 Notes: In addition to canning meats and vegetables, Burnham & Morrill Baked Beans (B&M) of Portland, ME is famous for its Brick Oven Baked Beans, still produced today (2020). What
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