Antique Hotelware Platter - St Anthony Hotel - Texas Restaurant Ware circa 1909 one dish dinners Was it a busy diner

Was it a busy diner in a big city or a humble mom and pop place in a small town

The bed pillow was hand-stitched in primitive fashion - mostly like executed by a little girl

An assembled collection of forty historic American homes

a historic 18th century Connecticut farmhouse and a brand new midcentury modern house that she and her husband designed and built (also in Connecticut)

Antique Hotelware Platter - St Anthony Hotel - Texas Restaurant Ware circa 1909 one dish dinners Was it a busy diner{HISTORY} Like so many vintage restaurantware and hotelware serving pieces, this vintage platter tells three stories in one the history of the maker (Lamberton Works), the history of the distributor (Albert Pick & Company), and the history of the esteemed establishment for which it was made (St. Anthony Hotel). The oldest story of the three starts with the distributor, Albert Pick, an Austrian immigrant, who opened up a dish shop in Chicago in 1857.