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 of the rim is covered in thin parallel lines of burgundy red.
It is interesting to note that in a 1952 lawsuit, Pagliero (Tepco) v. Wallace China Co., Wallace sued Tepco to keep them from copying four patterns appearing on its china, claiming in part that Tepco's china was of inferior quality. Those patterns were Hibiscus, Magnolia, Shadowleaf, and Tweed.
From the lawsuit: "The act of trade-mark infringement alleged is the use by Tepco of the words "Hibiscus", "Magnolia", "Shadowleaf", and "Tweed", to designate its imitations of Wallace designs, such use exemplified by the price lists and shipping cartons. Wallace does not contend that the words have been registered as trade-marks, or that the designs have been patented or copyrighted. The trial court expressly found that they were not.
"Tepco maintains that, in accordance with the custom of trade, all pieces of china manufactured by it, including those impressed with imitations of Wallace designs, bear on the underside of the china Tepco's name as manufacturer. Tepco alleged that the designs were not original with Wallace, that it had in fact used one of the designs, "Tweed", long before Wallace, and that its china was not of inferior quality."
Ultimately, Tepco was prohibited from using Wallace's names to describe those patterns but was apparently not enjoined from using the same designs with different names. Consequently, the Wallace patterns: Hibiscus, Magnolia, Shadowleaf, and Tweed became Tepco patterns: Palm for Shadowleaf, Hawaiian for Hibiscus, Dixie for Magnolia, Unknown name for Tweed.
Source:
Justia.com
For additional info:
Original Joe's Restaurant- San Francisco by Wallace China
Contributors:
Author: Ed Phillips