Manufacturer: Bauscher Brothers User: The Blackhawk Restaurant Distributor: Arthur Schiller & Son, Chicago Date of plate: 1930 Notes: Otto A. Roth opened The Blackhawk restaurant in December 1920 at 139 N. Wabash and Randolph in the Chicago Loop. One of Chicago's most successful restaurants, spanning 64 years, the original restaurant

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Blackhawk Hotels Company Date of celery: 1950 Notes: Dick Lane bought out Miller Hotels in 1927 and started Blackhawk Hotels Company in 1929 with three hotels: Blackhawk and Davenport Hotels in Davenport, Iowa and St. Paul Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota. Later hotels included Hotel Jefferson,

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Hotel Blackhawk Date of service plate: April 1915 Date of bowl: 1929 Pattern of bowl: Blackhawk, underglazed #82301 Notes: The Hotel Blackhawk in Davenport, Iowa opened in 1915 with 225 rooms at 200 East 3rd Street, Davenport, Iowa. By 1927, additional stories were added and the

Manufacturer: Bailey-Walker China Pattern name: Black Seville Date of plate: circa 1924-1942 Notes: This pattern in black and red that includes gryphons and stylized flowers was found in a 1930 Bailey-Walker price list. This particular plate was made for the Thornburg Hotel Company and has the addition of a unique

Manufacturer: Homer Laughlin China User: Black Saddle House of Beef Restaurant, Washington, D.C. Date of creamer: 1969    

Manufacturer: Jackson China User/Pattern name: Black Forest Restaurant Date of plate: 1974     Notes: The Black Forest Restaurant may have been owned by Larry Schwamb beforehand, but it was purchased by Helen Reinsissel in 1958, and she ran it until selling it in 1974. Her restaurant was located at

Manufacturer: Sterling China User: Bit of Sweden restaurants, San Francisco, Los Angeles Date of cream pitcher: circa 1930s-1950s Notes: Flow blue effect on the shield renders it illegible, but what it says is: Bit of Sweden. Note the same crest on the postcard. Wallace China is another known manufacturer. For

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Bismarck Hotel, Chicago, IL Date of plate: circa 1930s Notes: The first Bismarck Hotel was four floors and 200 rooms, built in 1894 by the three Eitel Brothers. In 1914, because of the unpopularity of the name during World War I, the hotel was renamed The

Manufacturer: Buffalo China User: Bismarck Hotel Date of pickle shells: 1915-1927 Date of bouillon: 1926-1931 Notes: The first Bismarck Hotel in Chicago, Ill., was four floors and 200 rooms, built in 1894 by the three Eitel Brothers. In 1914, because of the unpopularity of the name during World War I,