Manufacturer:  Scammell China Co. User: Haversham Inn, Westerly, Rhode Island Date of examples: Circa 1924-1954   Notes: What is now the Haversham Inn was built around 1870 by Capt. William Sidney Gavitt and was first used as a boarding house named Ocean View House. The dining room seated about 30 guests.

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Carson Pirie Scott Date of plate: 1947   The Carson Pirie Scott & Co. department store was founded in Chicago in 1854 by Samuel Carson and John Pirie. It eventually grew into a chain with 50 locations and was also known as Carson's. Their flagship Chicago

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Mead's Pattern: Underglaze Print Pattern #6003 Distributor: The Stearnes Co. – Chicago Date of platter: circa 1920s   Notes: Handsome platter with italic Mead's with a swash has a mystery user. The border pattern is Carr's Underglaze Print Pattern #6003. For additional info: Carr Print Pattern:

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Camp Merrie-Woode Date of examples: 1958   Notes: Camp Merrie-Woode on Lake Fairfield in Sapphire, North Carolina, was founded in 1919 as Lake Fairfield Camp by Marjorie Harrison, an English professor from Tazewell, Virginia. In 1922, it was purchased by Mabel Pye Day, a leader in

Manufacturer: Carr China User: Hot Springs of Arkansas Distributor: Dulin & Martin Co., Washington, D.C. Date of cup (#194 Soda, Bell Top, Handled): Early 1920s   Notes: The Quapaw Indians were native to the land that is now Hot Springs in central Arkansas, but by 1832 they had been forced

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern: Underglaze Print Pattern No. 67803 – Craig Hall Date of Demi Cup: 1922   Notes: Border design of thistles with brown blooms and buds and leaves that are both green and blue gray. For additional info: Craig Hall by Syracuse China Maddock Pattern #7055 – Craig Hall

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery Pattern: Craig Hall Thistle Border – #7055 Date of example: circa 1910 – 1920   Notes: Decal border design of green thistles with orange blooms which flank the hotel crest of three thistle blooms within a bellflower wreath. Below the wreath is an upper-case Old English-style "C

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Craig Hall Pattern: Underglaze Print Pattern 67803 Date of demi cup: 1922 Date of platter: 1929   Notes: Craig Hall was located on South Illinois Avenue in Atlantic City, New Jersey. It was originally built by John Weyth as the Garden Hotel in 1897. However, in

Manufacturer: Homer Laughlin Pattern: Impact Gray Date of platters: 1961-62   Notes: Mid-century style medium gray leaf and floral design fills the rim of this pattern. Contributors: Katherine Stolz Barber: ID and platter photos

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery and Scammell China Co. User: Name of pattern/user: Hatchett's Point Casino Distributor: Brown, Thomson & Co., Hartford, Conn. Date of examples: Circa 1900 to 1930   Notes: Hatchett's Point, on Long Island Sound, was developed in 1890 by five prominent businessmen as the location for their summer homes. The Casino was

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Moose Haven Restaurant Date of examples: circa 1936 – 1943   Notes: The Moose Haven Restaurant was located at 708 East King Street in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and opened in the mid-1930s. It is believed to be operated by two brothers, Steve and James Karas. In 1936,

Manufacturer: John Edwards – Staffordshire, England User: W & D Ocean Oyster House – Rochester, New York Distributors:  Wisner & Palmer Date of butter pat: circa 1871   Notes: The W & D Ocean Oyster House was located in Rochester, New York, on Buffalo Street near State Street. It was

Manufacturer: Mayer China User: La Grande Hotel – La Grande, Oregon Date of plate: circa 1927 – 1930s   Notes: A blurb in the Medford Mail Tribune from November 9, 1927, announced simply: "the new six story La Grande Hotel to be completed by November 15." The original proprietors of the

Manufacturer: Buffalo China User: Wanakah Country Club Pattern name: Floridian Date of pickle shell/relish: 1925   Notes: Floridian was a Buffalo stock pattern, patented in 1925. It has been used with topmarked china, but probably none with a monogram that has stirred quite so much interest as this intertwined WCC,

Manufacturer: Caribe China User: The Wig and Bottle, Minneapolis Date of plate: unknown   Notes: In 1951 John Skowronski purchased Danny's Funhouse, located at 2501 N.E. Marshall Street at Lowry Avenue. Skowronski and his wife and partner Dorothy Skowronski named the establishment (whose building was originally built in 1891) the

Manufacturer: Walker China User: The Brook Club, New York City Date of examples: cup: April 1965; plate June 1969   Notes: From Wikipedia: "The Brook is a private club located at 111 East 54th Street in Manhattan in New York City. "It was founded in 1903 by a group of

Manufacturer: Hutschenreuther China, Black Knight – Germany User: Crescent Athletic Club Date of platter: 1931   Notes: From Wikipedia: "The Crescent Athletic Club was an athletic club in Brooklyn. Founded by a group of Yale University alumni in 1884 as an American football club, it later expanded to include other

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Hallberg's, Seattle, Washington Distributor: Frederick & Nelson Date of platter: circa 1910 – 1915   Notes:  Swedish born Peter A. Hallberg arrived in Seattle as a sailor in 1888. He gave up the seafaring life for a job in the Union Bakery at 119 Pike Street, and

Manufacturer: Jackson China User: Lydecker's Northwood Inn – Butler, New Jersey Date of plate: 1968   Notes: Abram A. "Abe" Lydecker bought the New Blue Moon Inn, located on Route 23 in Butler, N.J., and renamed it Lydecker's Northwood Inn. It opened on May 30, 1947, according to Paterson's The

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Abdallah Shriners Distributor: James China Co. – Kansas City Date of pitcher and oblong pickle: Unknown   Notes: From the Abdallah Shriners website: "Abdallah Shriners are a part of Shriners International.  This fraternity based on fun, fellowship and the Masonic principles of brotherly love, relief

Manufacturer: Mayer China User: Crescent Company Café and Rathskeller Pattern name: Burton Date of examples: mid-1930s   Notes: The Crescent Café at 723 Fourteenth Street, N.W. in the District of Columbia opened in 1933. According to a notice in the April 21, 1934, edition of the Times-Herald (shown above): "The

Manufacturer: Unknown, likely Maddock Pottery Name of User: Greider's Cafe, Decatur, Illinois Distributor: Albert Pick & Co Date of example: early 1900s-1920s   Notes: Harvey D. Greider Sr. arrived in Decatur, Illinois, in 1890 and got a job in the Central Hotel. Around 1895, he left the hotel and went

Manufacturer: Scammell China Name of User: Greider's Cafe, Decatur, Illinois Name of pattern: Patent design, 61,099 Distributor: American China & Glassware Co. Date of example: circa 1925-1954   Notes: Harvey D. Greider Sr. arrived in Decatur, Illinois, in 1890 and got a job in the Central Hotel. Around 1895, he left

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Lockheed VC-121E – Columbine III Date of bowl: 1960   Notes: From Wikipedia: "Dwight David 'Ike' Eisenhower (born David Dwight Eisenhower; October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he

Manufacturers: Bauscher and Maddock Pottery Name of user: Green Mill Gardens, Chicago, Illinois Date of Maddock examples: Circa 1914 – 1920 Date of Bauscher examples: 1914   Notes: Around 1907, Charles E. "Pop" Morse opened a saloon in Chicago at the corner of Lawrence Ave. and Broadway. In 1909, it was

Manufacturer: Fraunfelter China User: Byrd Antarctic Expeditions Date of plates: circa 1928 – 1933   Notes: From Wikipedia: "Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. (October 25, 1888 – March 11, 1957) was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as

Manufacturer: Warwick China Pattern name: Underglazed Pattern #6177 Date of plate: 1948   Notes: This underglazed pattern by Warwick China was produced near the end of Warwick's existence and a nearly identical version was briefly produced by Carr China after it acquired Warwick's cylinders. White body plate with a burgundy

Manufacturer: Carr China User: Universalist Ladies Aid Society – ULAS Pattern name/line treatment: The Ballaret L-22 Date of examples: Circa 1920s-1930s Notes: The Universalist Ladies Aid Society is a women's organization within Universalist churches that focuses on charitable work and community support. Specifically, however, we know this pattern was used

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Ye Olde Tavern – Gray, Prospect Heights/Peoria, Illinois Pattern name: Royal #8080 Distributor: Albert Pick & Co. Date of platter: Circa 1910 – 1920   Notes: Ye Olde Tavern, also known as Doc Gray's Ye Olde Tavern and Gray's Ye Olde Tavern, was located on the northeast corner

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Elite Chinese Restaurant, Los Angeles Date of plate: circa 1927 – 1944   Notes: A May 28, 1940, notice in Los Angeles's Daily News is the first mention found of the Elite Chinese Restaurant. It advertises: "Now open New Chinatown's smartest, most ultra-modern restaurant – The