Syracuse China Identifying Patterns Hotel & Restaurants

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 2nd guide identified more popular designs. This one on will identify Hotel & restaurant designs & another coming on rare or hard to find patterns.

Howard Johnson's, Fontainebleau, Friendly's Restaurant, SEARS Coffee House

The Fontainebleau ~ Luxury Resort Miami Beach Hotel

A long time tradition for years Simple Simon Met A Pieman Howard Johnson's Logo

Pretty Blue Stars For Friendly's Ice Cream Parlor & Restaurant

Sears Coffee House Restaurant- without the Sears topmark this is Syracuse's Festival pattern.

BASEBALL, FOOTBALL, & GOLF

Left is logo from plate for The Stadium Club at Wrigley Field in Chicago. Middle is plate from Lambeau Field Home of the Green Bay Packers. Right shows small boy golfing logo for the Pinehurst Country Club in North Carolina.

FISHERMAN'S WHARF

The Famous Fisherman's Wharf Restaurant in San Francisco California

Famous COZY SOUP 'n' BURGER

Well known Manhattan restaurant featured in Adam Sandler's movie Big Daddy
THE GRAND HOTEL

This gorgeous design is officially named Grand Hotel, but has been used other places as well. The Grand Hotel is a beautiful resort on Makinac Island Michigan, opened since 1887. Some of this china can be seen in the Christopher Reeve's movie Somewhere in Time, filmed on location at the Grand Hotel.

 St. Hubert's Chicken

St. Hubert's Chicken Restaurants are located in CANADA

Chownings Tavern &WilliamsburgLodge

Beautiful hand painted design made for Chowning's Tavern in Williamsburg VA.

Delicate blue floral design was made for the Williamsburg Lodge

SEARCHING FOR
SYRACUSE CHINA ON EBAY
When searching on EBAY for Syracuse China be sure to check  both

Pottery & Glass>Pottery & China>Syracuse China

Pottery & Glass> Pottery & China> Restaurantware

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.

The Official Guide Railroad Dining Car China

by Doug McIntyre

Dining on Rails An Encyclopedia of Railroad China by Richard Luckin

Restaurant China Volumes 1 & 2 by Barbara Conroy

If you have any questions you might want to check out the Pottery & Glass Discussion Board

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