Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Dryden Hotel Date of bowl: circa 1929 – circa 1930 Notes: Located at 150 East 39th Street, New York, N.Y., the 17-story, 200-room Dryden Hotel opened in 1929 as an apartment hotel. Very little is known about the Dryden, other than simple line entries in Hotel Red

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern name/User: Driftwood Date of plate: 1956 Notes: The pattern that is placed on a contemporary coupe (rimless) plate shows a line drawing of driftwood in black and the outline of two mid-century, stylized fish, one in black and one in red. Source: From Syracuse China's Hospitality Group

Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Drexelbrook Date of creamer: 1957 Notes: Founded by developers Daniel G. Kelly and Fred P. Meagher in 1947 as an affordable planned community, Drexelbrook originally was built on the former site of the Aronimink Country Club in a suburb west of Philadelphia called Drexel Hill. It

Manufacturer: Sterling China Pattern: Dresden Date of plate: 1930s – 1950s Notes: This blue-edge-line, ivory-body Dresden pattern by Sterling is similar to the Colonial  pattern produced by Syracuse China with multi-colored bouquets of mixed flowers, including tulips, roses and daisies. For a different pattern with the same name: Dresden by Mayer China

Manufacturer: Mayer China Pattern: Dresden Date of open sugar, creamer: 1930s – early 1940s For a different pattern with the same name: Dresden 2 by Sterling China

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Dreier Hotels Date of plate: 1930s – 1948 Notes: Dreier Hotels was a relatively small hotel company with hotels located in the Times Square area of New York City. A search of Larry Paul's hotel database and Hotel Red Books show the Beverly, Cadillac, Forrest, Piccadilly, Plymouth,

Manufacturer: Jackson China User: Draneks Astorhurst Pattern name: Merlin  Date of platter: 1946-51 Notes: Draneks Astorhurst restaurant was located at Dunham Road at Tinkers Creek in Walton Hills, Ohio, as identified with the aid of a matchbook from the restaurant (below), with the motto: "We serve the best … because we buy

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: The Drake – Oak Brook Date: 1984 Notes: The Drake – Oak Brook was located on Cermak and York Roads in Oak Brook, Illinois. The four-story hotel, which opened in 1962, was built by the Drake Hotel Company and was under the same management as The Drake,

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: The Drake – Oak Brook Date of service plate: 1969 Date of bowl: 1971 Notes: The Drake – Oak Brook was located on Cermak and York Roads in Oak Brook, Illinois. The four-story hotel, which opened in 1962, was built by the Drake Hotel Company and was