Manufacturer: Scammell China
User: Hochschild Kohn Department Stores
Date of examples: 1911-1954

tea room

1911 tearoom ad

1921 menu

1951 ad

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Notes: Hochschild Kohn & Co. was one of Baltimore's major department stores, founded in 1897 by Max Hochschild and brothers Benno and Louis B. Kohn and incorporated in 1922. According to the Wikipedia, they opened their "downtown-Baltimore store on the northwest corner of Howard and Lexington streets" that year. What would become a chain ultimately survived for nearly a century until forced by bankruptcy to close in 1984.

In 1910, a sixth floor was added to the original building, and in December 1911, a tearoom was opened. In 1914, table d'hote luncheons ranged from 25¢ to 45¢.

The overglaze decal bordered china that Maddock Pottery prepared for the tearoom was named #2248 Hochschild and Kohn, because they were the first customer it was made for. Items made for the tearoom are backstamped with the Hochschild Kohn name. This pattern was sold to a number of other customers.

Scammell later produced a new decal border pattern that features a basket of flowers between green panels. Again, items made for the tearoom are backstamped with the Hochschild Kohn name. This pattern also was ordered by other customers, including the Drake Hotel in Chicago.

The china does not have the name of the distributor on the back, but it was probably H. P. Chandlee because they were the Baltimore dealer for both Maddock and Scammell.

Sources:
Wikipedia – Hochschild's
Baltimore Sun, Dec. 2, 1911 – waitresses wanted
Baltimore Sun, May 14, 1914 – opening date, prices

For more info:
Hochschild Kohn & Co., by Maddock Pottery

Contributor:
Larry Paul, author