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Carr Sample Plate 6
Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 6 Date of plate: Unknown   Notes: Photos of this sample plate were contributed by ebay seller Mark (toytown-tavern). Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips
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Carr Sample Plate 5
Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 5 Date of plate: 1937   Notes: This is another sample plate designed by Paul Mattson, photographed by Bill Mongtomery from the Judy Reed collection of her father's work. Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips
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Pearl's – by the sea
Manufacturer: Jackson China User: Pearl's by the sea – Gig Harbor, Washington Distributor: Kalberer Hotel Supply Company Date of demi cup & saucer: circa 1946 -1965   Notes: Pearl's by the sea was a restaurant in Gig Harbor, Washington, located at 13802 Purdy Drive. It is not known when it
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Tweed Pattern
Manufacturers: Wallace China and Tepco China Name of Pattern: Tweed Date of examples: circa 1938 – 1940s Notes: This pattern was used on Wallace's tan body – Desert Ware – china with a square covering the well of the plate and its corners bleeding onto the plate's rim. The rest
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Meyers Family Restaurant
Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Meyers Family Restaurant (Probably) Date of creamer: circa 1950 – 1952   Notes: Although where this handled creamer was used is not definitively known, based on the location of the Meyers Family Restaurant near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and the Carr China Company in Grafton, West Virginia,
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Lunch Hour NYC
Manufacturer: Homer Laughlin China User: New York Public Library Date of mug: 2012   Notes: The New York Public Library held an exhibition from June 22, 2012 to Feb. 17, 2013 titled Lunch Hour NYC that looked "back at more than a century of New York lunches, when the city's
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Carr Sample Plate 4
Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 4 Date of plate: 1937   Notes: Photos for this plate were contributed by Bill Montgomery from Judy Reed's collection of her father's designs. He was Carr designer Paul Mattson. Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips
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Noonday Club
Manufacturers: Maddock Pottery, Syracuse China User: Noonday Club, St. Louis, Missouri Date of Syracuse match stand: 1931 Notes: The first organizational meeting of the Noonday Club was reported by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch on Dec. 25, 1892, with "elaborate and expensive furniture from Boston … in special designs of rich oak
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Carr Sample Plate 3
Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 3 Date of plate: 1937   Notes: Photos for this plate were contributed by Bill Montgomery from Judy Reed's collection of her father's designs. He was Carr designer Paul Mattson. Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips
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