Sale! Buffalo China Roycroft Inn Single R deals Logo Salad / Luncheon Plate Restaurant Ware 7" Diameter: Priced per Plate
Sale! Was $80.00. now $64.99: Hard to find Roycroft Buffalo China lunch/salad plate featuring green trim with rust accent; diameter is @ 7". In excellent condition. These plates are in the Arts and Crafts colors that will add movement to your home decor: hunter green, rust brown and off-white ceramic.
The Roycroft orb and cross symbol is featured (Single R). These plates have the green buffalo hallmark and numbered. (See photos).
This pattern in testimony to the enduring legacy of the Roycroft campus. This china is a copy of the original china produced for the Inn's opening in the early 1900's.
Excellent used condition; factory fleabites do appear and are common with Buffalo Pottery. Color is distinct, no cracks or damage; Please see photos. Very little in the way of utensil markings.
Buffalo Pottery produced tableware for the Roycroft Inn, which opened in 1905. Buffalo pottery is the original manufacturer of the Roycroft line. Subsequently, Niagara, Oneida and Syracuse deals produced these as well after the initial Buffalo production.
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Beginning history of Buffalo China:
Buffalo Pottery's history began in 1903 when the Larkin Soap Company of Buffalo, New York began making pottery and china to offer customers as premiums when they purchased soap products by mail order or through select retail outlets.
The story began before the pottery was produced, however. While the soap being sold was the focus of John Durrant Larkin, his brother-in-law Elbert Hubbard, who was a salesman with the company, spearheaded the marketing plan that ultimately resulted in the now-famous pottery by devising a gift-with-purchase concept. Silk handkerchiefs, silver, and imported china were given away for years before Buffalo Pottery was conceived. About 1890, Hubbard introduced what he called the Club Plan - a system of selling soap products to groups, usually women's clubs. Again the products were bought at retail prices, but premium merchandise was offered, and generous credit terms were extended to such groups. This new marketing idea was so successful that Hubbard was able to retire from the firm, on January 7, 1893. By that time, Hubbard had moved on and was nurturing his Roycroft community.
After a trip abroad, where Hubbard fell under the spell of William Morris, the English exponent of the art-and-crafts movement, he set up a colony of craftsmen called the Roycrofters in his home in suburban East Aurora, and devoted the rest of his life (which ended on the Lusitania in 1915) to publicizing the doctrines of Morris. Hubbard had an immense influence on popular taste in this country at the turn of the century. It is partly due to his activities that today's vocational and adult schools throughout the country teach weaving, caning, ceramics, and other crafts. And to the student of ceramics, it is not mere coincidence that the pottery founded by the Larkin company manufactured "art" pottery, nor is the fact that the general manager of the pottery lived in East Aurora without significance.