Manufacturer: Shenango China
User: Savoy-Plaza Hotel
Date of service plate: 1950

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Notes: According to the 1927 Hotel Red Book, the 33-floor, 1000-room Savoy-Plaza Hotel was being built at 767 5th Avenue at East 58th Street and the Northeast corner of 59th Street in New York and opened in 1928. The Beaux-Arts style hotel building was demolished in 1964 and replaced by the 50-story General Motors Building in 1968.

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White body with wide dark green band border and coin gold lines along the rim and verge; center-marked with the initials SP in gold, set within a golden, ribboned wreath.

For additional info:
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