Manufacturer: Tepco User: Laurel Grove Hospital, Castro Valley, Calif. Date of plates (with two different backstamps): 1960s   Notes: The following history comes from the Feb. 8, 1970, issue of Hayward, California's The Daily Review, shown above: Located at "19933 Lake Chabot Road, Castro Valley, was opened as a proprietary

Manufacturers: Syracuse China and Unknown (Albert Pick & Co. distributor) User: Kellogg Company Date of Syracuse plate: 1925 Date of Albert Pick & Co. celery: Circa 1920   Notes: Kellogg corporate web site From the Wikipedia: "Kellogg's was founded as the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company on Feb. 19,

Manufacturer: Knowles, Taylor & Knowles Co. – K T & K China – East Liverpool, Ohio Pattern name: Pittsburgh User: Pennsylvania Railroad Date of oval bowl: Circa 1899   Notes: This seldom-seen pattern was documented by Douglas McIntyre in his "Official Guide to Railroad Dining Car China," and is based

Manufacturer: Knowles, Taylor & Knowles Co. – K T & K China – East Liverpool, Ohio Pattern name: Pittsburgh User: Pennsylvania Railroad Date of oval bowl: Circa 1899   Notes: This seldom-seen pattern was documented by Douglas McIntyre in his "Official Guide to Railroad Dining Car China," and is based

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern name: Overglaze Pattern #58204 User: Hotel Del Monte Date of cup: 1937   From the Wikipedia:  "The Hotel Del Monte was a large resort hotel in Monterey, California, from its opening in 1880 until 1942. It was one of the finest luxury hotels in North America.

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern name: Overglaze Pattern Series #58204 – #58209 Date of cup: 1937 Use of pattern: pre-1920   This pattern is one of a number of designs with similar lines and grouping of three ornaments found in a binder of Syracuse overglazed patterns. This one, however, is described

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Nurses Home Date of examples (only one backstamp shown): 1920-23   Notes: We have been unable to find a definitive ID for this topmark, but the seller of a large set bought them in Abbeville, S.C., which is 13 miles away from the former Nurses Home

Manufacturer: Carr China User: Forstmann & Huffmann – F. & H. Distributor: L. Barth & Son, New York Date of bowl: estimate between 1916 (when Carr opened) and before 1926 (when Barth merged with Albert Pick)   Notes: From an article in the Nov. 29, 1911, issue of the New

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: The Jabberwock, West Orange, N.J. Date of plate: 1935 Notes: The Jabberwock was a fantastical, short-lived club offering music and dancing from lunch, cocktails, to dinner and supper at 111 Prospect Avenue in West Orange, N.J. It opened in May 1936 and was owned by Jacob

Manufacturer: Scammell Name of user: Traylor Hotel – Allentown, Penn. Date of examples: circa 1924 – 1954   Notes: Allentown industrialist Samuel W. Traylor Sr. built the Traylor Hotel on the corner of 15th and Hamilton Streets. When it opened on September 1, 1917, it was a six-story building. In 1929,

Manufacturer: Mayer China Pattern name: Manhattan Date of True Ivory plate and grouping: Circa 1930s Date of bouillon cup: Circa 1940s-1960s Notes: The pattern has a subdued mint green background with bright pastel vines, acanthus leaves and flowers in the border design that covers the rim. It is surrounded on

Manufacturer: Carr China Name of user: Chez Paul, Chicago Date of bouillon: 1948 Notes: From the Wikipedia, "Chez Paul was a French restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1945 by Paul Contos, Chez Paul became famous under Paul's son, Bill. When it was open, it was the oldest French restaurant in

Manufacturer: Carr China User: Phil's Restaurant, Elkins, W.V. Date of grill plate: Circa mid-1930s – circa mid-1940s   Notes: Located at what must have been a busy intersection of Davis Avenue and Routes 33, 219 and 259 in Elkins, W.V., Phil's Restaurant was opened in 1929 by Willard "Phil" Phillips

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Manufacturer: Syracuse and Sterling User: Casino Club Date of Sterling cup: 1977 Date of Syracuse plate: 1975   Notes: The Casino Club is located under the shadow of the Hancock Building in Chicago at 195 E Delaware Place and was founded in 1914. It is quite a private social club that

Manufacturer: Bauscher User: Northmoor Country Club Distributor: Arthur Schiller & Son Date of demi cup: 1931   Notes: From its website, Northmoor Country Club, founded in 1918 in Highland Park, Illinois, offers the usual amenities of a private, family club, including "27 holes of golf, with its original 18 holes

Manufacturers: Jackson China, Bailey-Walker China User: Piccaninny Barbecue, Chicago Dates: Bailey-Walker platter, 1940; Jackson mug, 1930-1946   Notes: This mug and platter were used at the Piccaninny Barbecue in Chicago, with several locations variously identified in their ads as being on Madison at Hamlin Street (or Hamlin and Madison or

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America Pattern name: Princess – Underglaze Print Pattern 6056 Date of celery dish: circa 1930s-1952   Notes: From The Steel Zipper website: "The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America was formed in 1914 as a direct result of a bitter union strike in

Manufacturers: Syracuse, Carr, Walker User: Shaker Heights Country Club Pattern names: Syracuse: Denmark Syracuse: Mayfair Carr: Grafton Walker: Unknown Date of plates: Syracuse: Denmark, 1917 Syracuse: Mayfair, 1951 Carr: Circa 1920s-1930s Walker: 1960   Notes: Located in Shaker Heights, Ohio, since 1913, according to the club's website, Shaker Heights Country

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: The Homestead, Maywood, Illinois Date of plate: 1968   Notes: The Homestead restaurant was located at 8305 West North Avenue in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Illinois. Ashley Hugh Ricketts founded the restaurant in 1938 or 1939 (according to his testimony before Congress in 1957 about

Manufacturers: Syracuse China; Mayer China; Lilien Porzellan, Austria (Minners Designs, distributors) User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Pattern: Nature Studies/Nature Study/N.S. Date of Syracuse service plates: 1951 – 1969 Date of Lilien Porzellan plate: 1975-1978 Date of Mayer plates: Circa 1960s-1980s   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022),

Manufacturers: Syracuse China User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Date of service plate: 1979   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022), the first building on the site – constructed in 1766 – was an 18-room log hotel on 300 acres west of Virginia's Shenandoah Valley that was called

Manufacturers: Buffalo China, Syracuse China User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Pattern name: Syracuse underglaze border #91801 Distributor (Buffalo): Kniffin & Demarest Co., New York Distributor (Syracuse): W.C. Ayres Co., Philadelphia Date of Buffalo tray: unknown Date of Syracuse platter: 1956   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022),

Manufacturers: Syracuse China User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Pattern name: Casino Service Date ranges of plate found in this pattern: 1952, 1954, 1973, 1974   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022), the first building on the site – constructed in 1766 – was an 18-room log hotel

Manufacturers: Mayer China, Homer Laughlin China User: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Va. Date of Mayer celery tray: 1974 Date of Homer Laughlin creamer: 1986   Notes: Now the massive Omni Homestead Resort (2022), the first building on the site – constructed in 1766 – was an 18-room log hotel on

Manufacturer: Carr China Name of pattern: Aviation – Underglaze Print Pattern: 6062 Date of platter: Unknown   Notes: This is an extremely hard-to-find Carr border pattern, featuring cobalt blue airplanes and Quonset hut-style hangars against white china. Contributor: Photos: Ed Phillips      

Manufacturer: Carr China Name of border pattern: Athens – Underglaze Print Pattern 6011 Distributor: Fisher, Bruce & Co., Philadelphia Date of plate: Unknown   Notes: This Greek key-style border was seldom used by itself and frequently accompanied a topmark, such as this Fraternal Order of Eagles design. For more info:

Manufacturer: Carr China Pattern name: A La Mode Date of creamer: Unknown Notes: Nothing is known about this pattern and its unique backstamp, but it has the look of the designs produced for Carr by designer Paul Mattson in the 1930s. Contributor: Photos: Ed Phillips      

Manufacturer: Iroquois User: Meadowbrook Dude Ranch Subsequent user/same pattern: Galloping Gale Dude Ranch Date of plate and bowl: 1940   Notes: Meadowbrook Dude Ranch was a 100-acre horse ranch located in North Creek, N.Y., north of Schenectady, in the 1940s (date based solely upon the 1940 backstamp of the china).

Manufacturer: Jackson China User: Virginia Ferry Company  Date of sugar bowl: Circa 1946 – 1964   Notes: The Virginia Ferry Company (VFC) was established as a Virginia public service company in 1933, with significant stock ownership and an interlocking directorate with the Pennsylvania Railroad, which operated the railroad line down