Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery
Name of user: Fabacher's, New Orleans
Date of example:  Circa 1905 – 1915

Fabacher's-sample-plate

Fabacher's-1912 menu cover

Ladies Grape Arbor

Fabacher's-exterior

Fabacher's-1909 menu

Fabacher's-menu open

Tankard made by L. G. and C. Co. Limited says "Original Fabachers," indicating that it would have been used at the Royal Street restaurant following its name change to include "Original."

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Notes: Franz Joseph Fabacher opened his Oyster House and Hotel on Gravier Street, New Orleans, in 1880. Joseph Fabacher would later open a restaurant at 137 Royal Street.  In addition to the dining room on the ground floor, there was a Ladies Cafe; the hotel was on the second floor. In 1908, the Ladies Cafe was renovated into the Ladies Grape Arbor, with wood trim and grape vines, illuminated to simulate a moonlit night.

Around 1905, Peter Fabacher, one of several grandsons, opened Fabacher's Rathskeller on Canal Street, at which point the Royal Street restaurant added "Original" to its name. A tankard bearing the words Original Fabachers – and made by L. G. and C. Co. Limited, New Orleans – is shown above.

The original Fabacher's closed in 1915 and everything in it was sold at auction.

Peter's restaurant, Fabacher's Rathskeller, contained three dining venues. The dining room seated about 100 customers. The lunch room was open 24 hours. The cafeteria was open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. In January 1921, during Prohibition, federal agents raided his rathskeller, and arrested Peter Fabacher.  The restaurant closed later that year.

A Maddock Lamberton sample plate, shown above, contains a large Fabacher's crest in the center of the well. The crest on the sample plate, with a duck in flight and the head of an elk, is similar to the illustration on a 1912 menu cover from the Original Fabacher's.

Source:
History – article by Mike Scott – @moviegoermike

For more info:
Fabacher's 2 by John Maddock & Sons, England
Fabacher's 3 by Bauscher, Germany

Contributor:
Larry Paul: Author