Manufacturer: Buffalo China
Pattern: Floridian
Pattern: NOT Chicago and Great Western; NOT Legionnaire
Distributor: Albert Pick & Co.
Date of platter: 1925

bread plate

dinner plate

A Floridian plate with the CGW topmark

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Notes: A 1932 Albert Pick-Barth catalog identifies this Buffalo pattern as Floridian, with the following description: "Buffalo Vitrified China, with rolled edge. Decorated underglaze with Spanish decalcomania border in black, blue gray, tan and red, consisting of conventional leaves and geometric figures in panels between a narrow tan broken band at edge and a blue gray band below." On white body. We're including extra photos of this pattern, partly to show how the decals have been pieced together to fit on the plates and partly to show the disparity between the relative size of the design on a bread plate and a dinner plate. The design is larger on the bread plate and is even more impressive.

Some of the pieces in this pattern are bottom marked Patent Design 67573 as shown above, but the Buffalo Pottery patent design 67573 does not match the Floridian ornamental design. Click here for the matching US Patent Design 68949 issued to Lewis H. Bown of Buffalo Pottery on December 8, 1925.

(Editor's note: The last photo shown above with the WCC – or CGW – topmark has now (2025) been identified as having been custom made for Wanakah Country Club, located just south of Buffalo China. Contrary to what is widely believed by a cohort of railroad china collectors, it was not ordered for The Chicago and Great Western and named Legionnaire (for a train of the same name). Refer to the Wanakah Country Club entry for more information.

For related info:
Seminole Cafe, to see this Buffalo China pattern with a custom topmark
Wanakah Country Club, to learn more about the so-called Chicago Great Western topmark that has now been debunked

Platter photo contributed by reddygal
Plate, bouillon cup photos contributed by Susan Phillips