Pattern: INDIAN TREE - ORANGE FLOWERS by SYRACUSE
Description: OLD IVORY, ORANGE FLOWERS
Heavy restaurant china, the Indian Tree pattern was used by New York, New Haven & Hartford and Pullman Railroad companies.
Saucers do not appear to be from RR use as they are not stamped with RR IDs on back.
Web info:
http://www.nhrhta.org/htdocs/images1099.htm
"The so-called 'Indian Tree' pattern china was used on New Haven Railroad dining cars between about 1920 and 1940. Indian Tree china was used by the Pullman Company as well as by the New Haven Railroad. The Indian Tree pattern china used on the New Haven was supplied by Buffalo, Shenango, and Syracuse and was always backstamped with the railroad's name or initials."
Back stamp: Old Ivory Syracuse China O P CO
Individually marked with #s: 40 33 33 51
Good condition: no chips or cracks, some surface scratches and an occasional dimple from its original production days.
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