Lehner's Encyclopedia of U.S. Marks on Pottery, Porcelain & Clay
(1988:129) has an entry for Dohrmann Hotel Supply Company in San
Francisco. It notes that "Warwick China Company made products for this
mark" (which is more modern than the mark you have). I believe they are
a descendant of Nathan, Dohrmann & Co, who are profiled here, among many
other places:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~npmelton/sfbdohrm.htm.
Websites of collectors of railroad china indicate that Dohrmann Hotel
Supply (and the related Dorhmann Commisary Co) made china for use on the
Southern Pacific: http://railroadcollectors.org/pgChina_PMWF.shtml.
Dohrmann Hotel Supply seems to have been a subsidiary of the Dohrmann
Commercial Company
(http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=tf100001g2&chunk.id=c000078&query=parrott%2520building&brand=oac).
I haven't found your mark, but this might give you a place to start.
Michelle
Stacey Camp wrote:
> Greetings histarchers,
>
> I am looking for some more information on two ceramic vessels excavated from my site in historic Los Angeles. Just to give you a quick background, my site was occupied primarily by Mexican immigrants working on the famous Mount Lowe Railway between 1906 and 1938.
>
> The first vessel is a brown stoneware fragment with a unique molded design. Does anyone happen to know where this vessel was made and it's approximate date of circulation/production? Here are some photos:
> http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/brownstoneware1
> http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/brownstoneware3
>
> The second fragment is a partial maker's mark from a whiteware fragment that reads: "...G(C?)LA.../...E DOHRMAN.../...S ANGELE...")
> http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/dohrmanlosangeles
> http://www.stanford.edu/~scamp/dorhmanlosangeles1
>
> Many thanks in advance for any and all help!
>
> Stacey Camp
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> www.stanford.edu/~scamp/mountlowe
>
>
>
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