Manufacturer: Carr China Company Pattern: Carr China Adverting Ashtray Date of ashtray: Unknown   Notes: This Glo-Tan ashtray was probably used as an advertising giveaway for salesmen. Contributor: Ashtray photo: Bill Montgomery

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: AES Date of plate: Unknown Notes: Nothing is known about this logo with the initials or monogram A E S / AES set within a wreath, all in red. Editor's note: This entry comes from the Carr China website whose content has been transferred to

Manufacturer: Carr China Company Pattern: Carr China Advertising Plate Date of plate: Unknown (no backstamp)     Notes: This small Glo-Tan plate was probably used as an advertising giveaway for salesmen. Contributor: Photo: Don Crabtree

Manufacturer: Carr China Company Pattern: Carr China Advertising Plate Date of plate: Unknown (no backstamp)   Notes: This small plate is just 4 1/4" – 4 3/8" in diameter and was probably used as an advertising giveaway for salesmen. Red border and text with green Maythorne pattern. Contributors: Content by: Susan

Manufacturer: Carr China Company Pattern: Carr China Advertising Plate Date of plate: Unknown (no backstamp) Notes: This small plate is just 4 1/4" in diameter and was probably used as an advertising giveaway for salesmen. Contributor: Photo by Bill Montgomery

Manufacturer: Carr China User: Joe's Restaurant Pattern name: Underglaze print pattern #6001, Yosemite Distributor: L. Barth & Son, New York Date of platter: 1916-1925   Notes: From a two-part history of Joe's in Brownstoner.com: "A restaurant with a simple name like 'Joe's' hardly seems to be the kind of place

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: States Restaurant – Philadelphia Distributor: L. Barth & Son – New York Date of platter: circa 1920s – 1930s   Notes: States Restaurant and Cafeteria on Chestnut and 12th Streets in Philadelphia opened on October 14, 1921. According to an ad in the Philadelphia Evening Public

Manufacturers: Wood & Sons, Cauldon Ware, Maddock Pottery, Unknown manufacturer (made for Albert Pick & Co.), and Shenango User: States Restaurant – Chicago Distributor: Albert Pick & Company – Chicago Date of examples: circa 1907 – 1920s   Notes: States Restaurant in Chicago was located in the Republic Building, which

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Southern Arizona School for Boys – Tucson, Arizona Date of bowl: 1944   Notes: From an article by William C. Barrow in the December 1986, issue of the Saguaro: The Southern Arizona School for Boys "was the creation of Captain Russell B. Fairgrieve and George A.