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RESTAURANT CHINA
- Volume 2
Identification & Value Guide for Restaurant,
Airline, Ship, & Railroad Dinnerware
Click cover to go to Volume 2 site at Amazon.com
Volume 2 Overview
While Volume 1 is presented by
subjects such as airline, ship, railroad, military, government, casino, and western theme
china, Volume 2 is organized alphabetically by manufacturer, offering brief histories,
commercial china information, date codes, dated backstamps, colored photographs of ware
predominantly used in restaurants, hotels, clubs, schools, and so forth with a sprinkling
of the subjects covered in Volume 1, individual value ranges, numerous catalog pages, and
more. Two hundred plus American as well as foreign china companies are covered, because
both have played a significant role in the United States and worldwide foodservice
industry. Though the history of several has been altogether undocumented until now,
certain manufacturers are covered extensively in other works, but data on their commercial
china products has been generally limited or neglected completely. Principal manufacturers
included in Volume 2: Bauscher, Buffalo, Carr, H. F. Coors, Corning, Dudson, Dunn Bennett,
Greenwood, Grindley (now Duraline), Hall, Haviland, Hutschenreuther, Iroquois, Jackson,
Homer Laughlin, John Maddock and Sons, Maddock Pottery, Mayer, McNicol, Noritake,
Porsgrunds, Rego, Ridgway, Rosenthal, Royal Doulton, Scammell, Schonwald, Shenango,
Steelite, Sterling, Syracuse, Tepco, Union Porcelain, Walker, Wallace, Warwick, Wedgwood,
and Wellsville.
NOTE: Volume 2
is OUT OF PRINT according to the publisher. Copies are available on eBay, at Amazon.com, and from
other resellers as long as the supply lasts.
Volume 2 Details and Ordering
Information
8-1/2 X 11", 656 pages, hard cover
First edition released August 1999; values updated in
late-2002 second printing following sellout.
(Please note: what was originally planned to be Volume
2 and Volume 3 has been combined to create this single, 656 page Volume 2).
136 manufactures with brief histories,
commercial china information, date codes, dated backstamps, photographs
of ware with value ranges, numerous catalog pages, and more presented alphabetically by
company name. Click link to see
samples of manufacturer
backstamps and date code tables.
Manufacturer addendum with minimal
information on an additional 89 manufacturers including location, years of operation,
backstamp illustrations or descriptions, and so forth.
Nearly 900 colored photographs of
commercial dinnerware (including the following body materials: vitrified china, porcelain,
bone china, glass, glass-laminate, glass-ceramic, melamine, pewter, and so forth) with
description, custom backstamp information, date code, and value range.
More than 950 usage dated manufacturer
marks (backstamps). Click link to see samples of
dated manufacturer backstamps.
Almost 200 manufacturer catalog pages, 1931
to 1990s, most in full color.
Two diagrams illustrating
inter-relationships of the major American commercial china manufacturers.
146 distributors with known
china brands distributed, customers (e.g., hotels or railroads), and
directory listing years to cumulatively substantiate years of operation.
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170 restaurant chain capsule histories.
114 hotel chain capsule histories along with 167 dated hotel chain
logo illustrations. Use these logos to identify and date hotel china, as well as related
collectibles such as hollow ware, flatware, glassware, and ashtrays.
History of the commercial china industry.
Extensive index with 1,263 entries includes
a cross reference to backstamps that do not incorporate the manufacturer's name.
Ordering Information
ISBN#157432148X; originally released in
August
1999 (values were updated in 2003
after initial sellout); published by Collector Books @ $39.95.
The book has sold out again and will not be reprinted by Collector Books.
To order a copy at Amazon,com, click the Volume 2 book cover (near top
of this page) which will take you directly to the Restaurant China
Volume 2 page
at Amazon.com.
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Golden West Restaurant (California
coffee shop chain) cup and saucer;
Shenango b/s; 1968 and 1969
date codes; $35.00 - 45.00. |
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"Park Lane" pattern; Syracuse b/s;
1953, 1956, and 1960 date codes;
12¾" platter, $24.00 - 30.00;
open sugar, $10.00 - 12.50;
cream pitcher, $12.00 - 15.00.
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Sam's Hof Brau (Sacramento,
Oakland & Los Angeles,
CA)
mug; Tepco b/s;
circa 1950s
- 1960s;
$40.00 - 50.00.
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Sambo's cup; late 1950's;
Wallace b/s; Sambo is an acronym of the founder's names, Sam Battistone
and Newell
Bohnett; this nationwide chain, primarily in Western and Midwestern states, began in 1957
in Santa Barbara,
CA;
$60.00 - 80.00.
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Red Lion 10"
compartment or grill plate; restaurant name on sign above building door on plate; "Roselyn
Castle Grill Plate" Shenango b/s; 1960s; $30.00 - 40.00.
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Photograph and caption examples from Restaurant
China - Volume 2
© Barbara J. Conroy
Updated 10/15/06
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