More than you ever wanted to know... https://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/coatings.html
Thank you VERY much for the help and, Taupou, especially for IDing the basket!
How can I edit the title of my post (because I am obsessive about that sort of thing...) OK, I found the answer to that, but now I don't know how...
I always assumed this heavily-beaded basket has African origins and is older, but not an antique. I am quite sure that is a small, rusty, metal...
...and, finally, HERE is the patent information. I have to get back to belatedly packing boxes of gifts for shipping.
From a Jan 1935 ad, here are some tricorne designs...something for which you can hunt! [ATTACH]
...and here is the reference in the same publication, in a article that discusses new dinnerware shapes: "A SHORT LINE uses an unusual shaped...
In a university library database to which I have access I found a 1934 ad for Salem China's new Tricorne shape and in the same publication I found...
I forgot to add that once I found the Google hit on the 1950 Carolina Journal of Pharmacy, where I could only see the top part of the logo, I...
It is often just a matter of entering the correct words. In this case I started at the USPTO and just searched for Hunter's. I got something like...
Well HERE is a piece that would have gone nicely with your dishes.
...and I found it. Here is the full ad, from the 1950 Carolina Journal of Pharmacy, Vol 31 [ATTACH]
Here is the only little bit I could see in Google books; from the Carolina Journal of Pharmacy, Vol. 31. 1950. I would like to find the entire...
The Hunter's trademark here looks like yours...and it is associated with soda fountains. First, here is a comparison of the logos (I had to...
Separate names with a comma.
