Here are more photos of china from
the Railroad, Steamship,and Transportation Artifacts Show held in Gaithersburg,
Maryland, November of 2006.
Above left to right. A
master salad bowl in the Southern Pacific's "Prairie Mountain
Wildflower"
pattern; a display of Pennsylvania Railroad china and silver; a
compote in the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Brown Keystone" pattern;
a bowl in the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Salad" pattern
-- only salad bowls were produced in this pattern.
Above
left to right. A bouillon cup in the
Pullman Company's "Calumet" pattern; a compote in the
Pullman Company's "Indian Tree" pattern; an
ice cream dish in the Pullman Company's "Calumet" pattern;
a personalized shaving mug showing a locomotive -- personalized
mugs like this were once a fixture of barbershops.
Above
left to right. Two
gravy boats in the "Pelican" and Peach
Blossom"
patterns of the Southern Railway;
a great display
of nautical china pitchers; a tureen from the White Sulphur
Springs Hotel owned by the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; two
views of a "Seasons
Greetings"
plate made by Onondaga Pottery, suppliers of much railroad china.
