Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Statue of Liberty Date of ashtray: circa 1935 – 1952   Notes: Glo-Tan advertising ashtray ordered for the Statue of Liberty, New York City. Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Standard Catering Co. Pattern: Carr's Underglaze Print Pattern #6003 Date of examples: circa 1920s – 1930s   Notes: The hard-to-see backstamp on the mug is Ford Hotel Supply, located in St. Louis, Mo., between 1912 and 1949. That makes us believe that Standard Catering was likely located

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Underglaze Print Pattern #6003 Distributor: Chas. H. Werner & Sons Co. Date of examples: Circa 1916 – 1930s   Notes: This pattern's number was found in a Carr catalog, but its name was not known. It is shown in teal green on the Thompson's plate

Manufacturers: Carr China Company and Lamberton China User: Southern Railroad  Pattern: Pelican Date of egg cup: Unknown   Notes: This egg cup was made for the Southern Railroad in the Pelican pattern. It was not railroad-backstamped and was ordered from Lamberton China as well as from Carr. Contributors: Egg cup photos:

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Southern Mansion Date of soup bowl: Unknown Date of sample plates: 1946   Notes: Thanks to Jim Mitchell, curator of the West Virginia State Museum, we were able to ID this one based on the addition of the restaurant's motto: "Famous for food." It was located at

Manufacturer: Scammell China User: Biser's, Jacksonville, Florida Date of example: circa 1924 – 1945   Notes: Howard Biser began his restaurant career around 1910 as a waiter. Around 1920, Biser partnered with a Mr. Bingham to open Bingham & Biser's restaurant at 211 W Forsyth Street in Jacksonville. After Mr.

Manufacturer: Warwick China User: Biser's, Jacksonville, Florida Date of example: circa 1920s – 1930s   Notes: Howard Biser began his restaurant career around 1910 as a waiter. Around 1920, Biser partnered with a Mr. Bingham to open Bingham & Biser's restaurant at 211 W Forsyth Street in Jacksonville. After Mr.

Manufacturer: McNicol China User: Biser's, Jacksonville, Florida Date of plate: circa 1940s – 1960s   Notes: Howard Biser began his restaurant career around 1910 as a waiter. Around 1920, Biser partnered with a Mr. Bingham to open Bingham & Biser's restaurant at 211 W Forsyth Street in Jacksonville. After Mr.

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Snuffy's Restaurant Date of plate: circa 1935 – 1952   Notes: Snuffy's Restaurant in Scotch Plains, N.J., was established in 1932 and is still in business today (2012). Located at 250 Park Ave. on the corner of Mountain Avenue, the restaurant is famous for its sizzling

Manufacturer: Unknown User: General Controls Date of mug: unknown   Notes: General Controls was a manufacturer of automatic, pressure, temperature and flow controls, located at 801 Allen Avenue in Glendale, Calif. From a timeline (see image above) provided by its current iteration, GC Valves in Charlotte, N.C.: 1930s – General

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Smith's Service Date of plate: 1941   Notes: Smith's Service Buffet and Lounge was located in Manitou Springs, Colo., "where the world's famous Pike's Peak Highway begins." Except for finding an ad in the 1939 Colorado College yearbook and the postcard below that includes the logo,

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: SKF – Svenska Kullagerfabiken AB Date of mug: circa 1935 – 1952   Notes: SKF, or Svenska Kullagerfabiken AB, was founded in the first decade of the 20th century in Sweden and has been in business ever since supplying bearings, seals, lubrication and lubrication systems and

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Sigma Alpha Epsilon – SAE Date of sugar bowl: 1937   Notes: This covered sugar, not found in a Carr catalog, was made in 1937 for Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity – SAE – that was founded in 1856. It is completely hand decorated in the SAE

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Sherman's Restaurant Date of pitcher: circa 1936 – 1952   Notes: There are lots of Sherman's Restaurants, but our practice is to look for those that were located the closest to Grafton and research them first to see if they might be a match. In this

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Shawsheen Restaurant Date of pasta bowl: circa 1920s – 1930s   Notes: The Shawsheen Restaurant was located at 45 Haverhill Street in Andover, Mass. Its original use was as a restaurant/cafeteria with six bowling alleys in the basement and a 500-seat theater for cinema. And the

Manufacturer: McNicol China User: Laritz Cafeteria Date of plate: circa 1947-1950s   Notes: Laritz Cafeteria, what was to be a small and brief-lived chain of cafeterias, opened its first location on March 14, 1947 in Pensacola, Florida, at the corner of Romana and Jefferson streets. Charles Laritz was owner/general manager.

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Seros Lunch Date of grill plate: Unknown   Notes:  The grill plate pictured above uses Carr's Athens pattern 6011. George Seros opened Seros Lunch at 1439 Griswold Street in Detroit in 1918, specializing in chili to the point that he renamed the company the Seros Chili

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Sea Breeze Hotel Date of platter: circa 1936 – 1952   Notes: The Sea Breeze Hotel was located at 16151 Collins Ave., in Miami Beach, Florida, as early as 1936, according to a Hotel Red Book. At some point, at least by the early 1950s, it

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Scott & White Hospital Date of platter: Unknown   Notes: Scott & White Hospital, now Scott&White Healthcare, was started in Temple, Texas, by Arthur C. Scott, MD and Raleigh R. White Jr., MD. They began their medical practice in 1897. The platter was distributed by Huey

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Schmitt's Chop House Distributor: Restaurant China Company – Chicago Date of pitcher: Unknown   Notes: It is not known where this restaurant was located; any help would be appreciated! It does have what we consider to be an older, less common Carr backstamp with note of

Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery User: Granliden Hotel Date of bowl and covered sugar: Circa 1900   Notes: Granliden Hotel, located on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire – "the Gateway to the White Mountains" – "was originally built as a small inn around 1890, along with several cottages," according to the website

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Color Sample Plate Date of plate: Unknown   Notes: A hard-to-find color chart made by Carr including what we imagine to be their most-used colors whenever it was that the plate was made. On the back of the plate are the color names that relate to

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 7 Date of plate: 1937   Notes: This sample plate is part of our collection, purchased from the estate of Richard Mattson, who was one of Carr designer Paul Mattson's children. As you can see from the back, it was signed by Mattson

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 6 Date of plate: Unknown   Notes: Photos of this sample plate were contributed by ebay seller Mark (toytown-tavern). Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 5 Date of plate: 1937   Notes: This is another sample plate designed by Paul Mattson, photographed by Bill Mongtomery from the Judy Reed collection of her father's work. Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips

Manufacturer: Jackson China User: Pearl's by the sea – Gig Harbor, Washington Distributor: Kalberer Hotel Supply Company Date of demi cup & saucer: circa 1946 -1965   Notes: Pearl's by the sea was a restaurant in Gig Harbor, Washington, located at 13802 Purdy Drive. It is not known when it

Manufacturers: Wallace China and Tepco China Name of Pattern: Tweed Date of examples: circa 1938 – 1940s Notes: This pattern was used on Wallace's tan body – Desert Ware – china with a square covering the well of the plate and its corners bleeding onto the plate's rim. The rest

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Meyers Family Restaurant (Probably) Date of creamer: circa 1950 – 1952   Notes: Although where this handled creamer was used is not definitively known, based on the location of the Meyers Family Restaurant near Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and the Carr China Company in Grafton, West Virginia,

Manufacturer: Homer Laughlin China User: New York Public Library Date of mug: 2012   Notes: The New York Public Library held an exhibition from June 22, 2012 to Feb. 17, 2013 titled Lunch Hour NYC that looked "back at more than a century of New York lunches, when the city's

Manufacturer: Carr China Company User: Carr Sample Plate 4 Date of plate: 1937   Notes: Photos for this plate were contributed by Bill Montgomery from Judy Reed's collection of her father's designs. He was Carr designer Paul Mattson. Contributors: Susan and Ed Phillips