Altoona, Pa?
Butter Pat 3"
Greenwood China
C.1890's
This is one of my very favorite piece's. It is one of the most unusual piece's I have ever seen showing lumber being cut. Probably from the company dining room.
Salt Lake City, Utah/Seattle, Washington/Portland, Oregon
Butter Pat 3"
No Maker Mark (made by Syracuse China)
C.1940's
This is one of the rarest and most outrageous piece's of china that I have ever owned. I have owned 2 of these butter pats over the years, the other is now in a bay area collection. Who knows, maybe there is a third one hiding out there?
Gardner Lake, Conn.
Dinner Plate 9 7/8"
Shenango China/Inca Ware
C.1940's
One of thr greatest piece's of china I have ever seen! It shows the lodge at the center of the plate with different sporting scene's around the rim. A truly wonderful piece of restaurant china.
Portland, Oregon
Butter Pat-Square 2 3/4"
Made in Germany
Pre-1906
Ilion, N.Y.
Creamer-Handled 2 1/8"
No Maker Mark
C. 1860's
The New Osgood Hotel was built in 1852-53 by Eliphalet Remington. It was a 3 story brick building at the corner of Otsego & Main.
Chicago, Illinois
Plate 6 5/8"
Mercer Hotel Ware
C.1905
Boston Store State, Madison & Dearborn Sreets Chicago. Charles Netcher moved to Chicago in 1869 working at The Pardridge Dry-Goods House. He bought out the owners after an 1871 fire & changed the name to the "Boston Store". He married his wife Mollie in 1891. After his death in 1904 Mollie guided the store through it's most profitable years. Mollie changed it to one of the best department stores in the country. The seventeen floor store had a post office, a bank, a barber shop, several soda fountains & restaurants & an observation tower. The store closed in july 1948.
Thanks to Scott A. Newman Jazz Age Chicago
