Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Granliden Hotel Date of bowl and covered sugar: Circa 1900   Notes: Granliden Hotel, located on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire – "the Gateway to the White Mountains" – "was originally built as a small inn around 1890, along with several cottages," according to the website

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Color Sample Plate Date of plate: Unknown   Notes: A hard-to-find color chart made by Carr including what we imagine to be their most-used colors whenever it was that the plate was made. On the back of the plate are the color names that relate to

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 7 Date of plate: 1937   Notes: This sample plate is part of our collection, purchased from the estate of Richard Mattson, who was one of Carr designer Paul Mattson's children. As you can see from the back, it was signed by Mattson

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

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

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

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

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,

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