Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Hotel duPont Date of plate: 1964 Notes: Commissioned by DuPont Company president Pierre S. du Pont, the Hotel DuPont opened at North Market Street and West 11th Street in Wilmington, Delaware in 1913. The 12-story grand hotel was built in the Italian Renaissance style and later was

Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Hotel DuPont Date of plate: October-December 1982 Notes: Commissioned by DuPont Company president Pierre S. du Pont, the Hotel DuPont opened at North Market Street and West 11th Street in Wilmington, Delaware in 1913. The 12-story grand hotel was built in the Italian Renaissance style and later

Manufacturer: Walker China User: Dunk Donut Co. Date of creamer: 1930s – 1942 Notes: Locations found in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. The chain started with brothers Adolph and Bill Stern in the 1930s. Some were restaurants and some had lunch counters along with the donut shop. The business had registered the name

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Duluth Boat Club Rim Pattern: Viking  Date of plate: May 1908 Notes: Located on Minnesota Point in Duluth, Minn., the original Duluth Boat Club was one of the largest of its kind in the late 1800s and 1920s. The club as an independent entity dissolved in 1926, but

Manufacturer: Wellsville China User: Duff's Rebel Date of platter: 1960 Notes: Located in Quality Inn on Route 50, Winchester, VA and known as the Pride of Dixie Restaurant. Closed circa 1980. See also: Duff's and Duff's 2, the first restaurant owned by Melvin and Evelyn Duff.

Manufacturer: Hall China User: Duff's Date of match stand: 1950s – 1961 Notes: According to information found on a genealogy.com forum provided by Donna Duff Hauser, the daughter of owners Melvin and Evelyn Duff, Duff's was the first restaurant operated by the couple. Located in Winchester, VA, it was a predecessor of the

Manufacturer: Wellsville China User: Duff's Date of creamer: 1950s – early 1960s Notes: According to information found on a genealogy.com forum provided by Donna Duff Hauser, the daughter of owners Melvin and Evelyn Duff, Duff's was the first restaurant operated by the couple. Located in Winchester, VA, it was a predecessor of the

Manufacturers: Carr China and Warwick China User: Duckwall's Date of grill plates: 1930s – 1951   Notes: Duckwall's was one of the first five and dime, variety stores, founded in in Kansas 1901 by Alva Lease Duckwall. It eventually grew larger, moved its headquarters to Texas and changed its name to ALCO

Manufacturer: Jackson China Pattern: Ducklings (Pink Airbrushed) Date of cup: 1964 Note: The Homer Laughlin Fiesta-style ring-handle mug is shown without comment in Jim Strano's Jackson China Book. For related info: Ducklings (Blue Airbrushed) by Jackson China