Manufacturer: Maddock Pottery
User: Saltzmann's Plaza Restaurant, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Distributor: L. Barth & Son
Date of example: 1916

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Notes: Louis H. Saltzmann was the operator of the Plaza Restaurant at Flatbush Avenue and Fulton Street in Brooklyn, N.Y., which opened in 1916. Occupying three floors, in addition to the restaurant that was ostensibly on the top floor and described as a "beefsteak garret" (a term for an upper-floor private dining room in early 20th century New York restaurants, specifically designed to host beefsteak dinners), there was a cabaret act, The Plaza Girl Revue, and a dance floor with two bands.

Ads in 1917 in the Brooklyn Eagle provide the smoking gun that identifies the logo with an "S" in shield with crown on top as the crest on the Maddock China.

Saltzmann owned other restaurants in Brooklyn and New York City that also might have used this same crested china.

As dramatic foreshadowing of his restaurants' fate, Saltzmann must have been less than timely when paying the distributor, L. Barth & Son, because they put a mechanics lien on Saltzmann and the Plaza Restaurant for $98,644.78, on March 21, 1917.

And in January 1918, Saltzmann filed for bankruptcy, with liabilities of $721,285.00 and total assets of $7,325.00. However, his financial problems were worked out and Saltzmann went on to own several hotels, and in the 1930s opened Cafe Loyale on Fifth Avenue.

The Maddock Trenton China has a greenish gray band flanked by orange pin lines that is placed mid-rim on each side of the crest. "Maddock Trenton China" is impressed on the back. L. Barth & Son has a green backstamp.

Sources:
New York Herald, Aug. 24, 1915 – building leased by Saltzmann
New York Herald, Jan. 30, 1916 – Saltzmann cafes
Brooklyn Citizen, Sept. 3, 1916 – Saltzmann to open place here
Brooklyn Eagle, Dec. 10, 1916 – Plaza opens soon
Brooklyn Eagle, Dec. 27, 1916 – Plaza opens
Brooklyn Daily Times, March 21, 1917 – Mechanics' Lien, L. Barth
Brooklyn Eagle, April 29, 1917 – ad with shield logo
Wall Street Journal, Jan. 5, 1918 – restaurants in bankruptcy
Times Union, April 5, 1936 – leases Far Rockaway Club

Contributor:
Larry Paul: author