Manufacturer: Scammell China
User: Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Date of example: 1930s?
Notes: The Foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia, was an experiment in treating by hydrotherapy individuals who had been handicapped by infantile paralysis. The Georgia Warm Springs Foundation was established in 1927. In 1934, the old Meriwether Inn was torn down and replaced by more accessible structures that included a dining hall.
President Franklin Roosevelt was a frequent guest and was photographed dining with some of the other guests. Several china border patterns appear in some of these 1930s photographs. President Roosevelt had a service of plain white dinnerware that was used in his private cottage.
Scammell made a Lamberton China service that is decorated with ornaments in red. It is backstamped "Made Expressly for Georgia Warm Springs Foundation."
This pattern is a variation of the dinnerware design Scammell created for Rena Rosenthal, an upscale store in New York City. The Rosenthal china was produced in various colors, with, and without, the ornaments raised in the clay.
Sources:
International News photo
Life magazine
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation booklets
Historic images
Contributor:
Larry Paul: author
