Restaurant China : Identification & Value Guide for Restaurant Airline Ship & Railroad Dinnerware (Volume 1)

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This giant new reference book covers dinnerware oven-to-table serving pieces and accessories specifically designed for use in commercial food service as opposed to household tableware. This fine china is used in restaurants in addition to hotel government company military hospital school church club fraternal organization department and drugstore railroad station and airport dining rooms and cafeterias as well as on trains ships and airplanes. Restaurant china brings a hint of nostalgia of pre-freeway cross-country vacations by car or rail when fast food stops were nonexistent and dining out was a big event for people. In addition to 690 color photographs Conroy has included lengthy alphabetical topmark lists logo illustrations value ranges and in-depth sections on manufacturing and decoration techniques. 2003 values. 8.5 X 11.