Megan,



Your best bet for finding pattern names for hotel wares would be to look at
catalogs from hotelware supply companies.  Some of the big ones that I know
of are:



Albert Pick Company, Inc. of Chicago

Nathan Straus and Sons Inc. of New York

Parkuet, Hout & Moneuse Co. of New York

R. A. Davis & Sons of Baltimore.

E. B. Adams Company of Washington D.C.



There are many more hotel supply companies that probably produced catalogs.
I have found my copies of such catalogs at paper shows.  One of the big
paper shows is at Allentown, Pennsylvania.  These catalogs are not cheap
when you find them.  There may be copies of these catalogs at the Library of
Congress, Winterthur Museum, or at the Smithsonian Museum of American
History Library.  The Warshaw Collection of historical ephemera at the
Smithsonian may also be another good possibility.



            The green lined hotelware pattern that is illustrated in the
sites you refer to has a very long history.  Page 7 of my article “A Revised
Set of CC Index Values for Classification and Economic Scaling of English
Ceramics from 1787 to 1880” (*Historical Archaeology* Vol 25 no. 1:1-25) has
a discussion of the “Lined” wares coming in during the 1770s as tableware
and the morphing of these into hotel Band-and-Line Wares in the last quarter
of the 19th century.



            Hunter Research in Trenton, New Jersey has excavated a boatload
of hotel wares from factory waster tips and done some good research on the
potteries.  They may have some catalogs.  Bill Liebeknecht has been actively
involved in these excavations and research.  The Pottery of Trenton Society
had a newsletter and an annual meeting.  There has been a discussion of a
session on hotel wares.



Peace,

George L. Miller




On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 PM, Megan E. Springate <
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> Greetings,
>
> I am looking for a reference/references that will give me the pattern
> names for stock (non-logo/non-custom) hotel ware or restaurant ware
> dishes. I'm particularly interested in the names of the patterns that
> consist of various numbers of lines of various thicknesses around the
> vessel edges. I'm less interested in finding dates of production of these
> stock pieces, since most of the companies that made them seem to have made
> heavy use of date codes.
>
> An example of what I'm talking about: Buffalo China Co.'s "Saratoga"
> pattern was a wide band paired with a very close thin band around the
> outer edge of the plate and a thin line closer to the center.
>
> image here: http://tinyurl.com/3e3jfc5
> (Goes to:
>
> http://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/buffalo-china-saratoga-green-stripe-8-plates-x-4
> )
>
> There are some books on restaurantware for collectors available, but the
> ones I've seen focus primarily on the custom production lines (specific
> hotels, railroads, steamships).
>
> Any assistance appreciated!
>
> Regards,
> Megan.
>
> Megan E. Springate, RPA
> Doctoral Student
> Department of Anthropology
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