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Identifying Syracuse China Patterns #5
YET MORE DESIGNS
Syracuse China began operation in 1871 as Onondaga Pottery Company (OPCO) & still continues to produce china today in Syracuse New York. They are most widely known for their restaurant, hotel & railroad dining car china, although they have made fine china also. I will be writing several guides to try to help you as a buyer or seller identify some of their patterns & designs. They have made thousands of designs & it would be near impossible to identify them all. I have been selling Syracuse China on EBAY for about 5 years. SADLY I have NOT saved all of my pictures. I just recently decided to start saving them so I could write a guide. Therefore my pictures are limited. Each EBAY guide can only have 10 photographs each. This is the main reason I have to divide up the patterns into seperate guides. It may take me awhile to get all the patterns I have listed, as I have to do this in my spare time (of which I do not have much!) My first guide was on Railroad China patterns, the second guide was on more popular designs. The third on Restaurant & Hotel Designs. Fourth continued with more designs! And now Yet More Designs. I tell you it is never ending!
Northern Dogwood
Syracuse has had several DOGWOOD patterns. This is known as Northern Dogwood. See My Railroad Guide for the Dogwood design. There is some disagreement on whether this design was once used by the Spokane, Portland & SeattleRR. It is however a stock Syracuse pattern. There is another pattern called PARKLANE that is often confused asa Dogwood pattern, I believe it is actually a cotton blossom, or?? Sorry I currently don't have a photo of that design.
FLEUR DE LIS
Pattern rather speaks for itself, a rendition of a French Fleur de Lis.
DRAKE
Pretty Red Transfer Design
CALYPSO
Calypso was part of the CAREFREE line of Syracuse China produced from 1966-1970. There are numerous colorations of the same design. The one shown here is Largo in deep yellow & a pumpkin color. The other colors are Montego(which seems to be the most common) Barbados, Aruba, Trinidad, & Surf White, which is all white. They are usually clearly marked on the bottom.
ROOSEVELT HOTEL
& IVY
The Roosevelt Hotel , New York City, a blue oriental design. IVY is pretty self explanatory.
OLD HAARLEM
Pretty rose & parrot tulip. I have seen it with dark blue pinstripe as well as dark green pinstripe.If I am not mistaken, I think this design was made in a thinner dinnerware also.
VICTORIA ROSE
Victoria Rose ~ part of the Federal Shape Dinnerware line. Marked on back Federal Shape Syracuse China Made in USA
SAYBROOK & BRANFORD COLLEGES
Saybrook & Brandford Colleges were YALE'S first 2 residential colleges. The famous Quadrange is depicted on plates rim. The center says Saybrook Branford. I assume from dining hall of some sort.
As I said earlier this is only a touch of the many designs made by Syracuse China, but I hope it is of some value to you. If you are a collector or seller you might want to look into purchasing the following books here on EBAY.
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The Official Guide Railroad Dining Car China by Doug McIntyre
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Dining on Rails An Encyclopedia of Railroad China by Richard Luckin
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