Fred Harvey Shenango China China Butter Pat Railroad Station Eating Houses 1955

Fred Harvey Shenango China China Butter Pat Railroad Station Eating Houses 1955 

This butter pat was made for Fred Harvey that was used throughout the system in the 1950’s.

It was made by the Shenango China Co, New Castle, Pa. in the second half of 1955 with a date code of F-13.

Butter pats like this in this pattern rarely surfaces, just try finding a photo just like it.

The butter pat is just a smidge over 3 and 1/16th’s inches wide.

This would have been used in Harvey Houses, Restaurants, or railroad station eating houses of Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe or the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroads.  It would have held fresh baked bread, rolls, croissants, or other bread / pastry items to be served to the patrons in the restaurants in the most elegant manner.  Additionally, it would have been used in connection with the Harvey (and even Santa Fe Railroad or Frisco) china for actual table and counter settings.  It is the heavyweight type Restaurant, Hotel, and Steamship silver plate.

Some of the locations where this may have been used at the Fred Harvey operations included El Tovar, The Bisonte at Hutchinson Kansas, Topeka Kansas (the 1st eating house), Waynoka Oklahoma, Union Station & Westport Room in Kansas City Missouri, The Casa del Desierto (House of the Desert) Harvey House in Barstow California, Hopi House, the Bright Angel Lodge in the Grand Canyon, Alvarado Hotel in New Mexico, Spinning Wheel Restaurant in Hinsdale Illinois, Union Station in Kansas City Missouri, Harvey Hotel in Dodge City Kansas, Belen New Mexico, Cardenas Hotel in Trinidad Colorado, Amarillo Texas Harvey Hotel, La Junta Colorado, Springfield Missouri, the Gold Lion Restaurant in Chicago Union Station, Fray Marcos, El Garces Hotel in Needles California, Harvey Hotel in Emporia Kansas, Winslow Arizona,  Seligman, Arizona, Merced California, Bakersfield Ca., Williams Az., Albuquerque Nm, Mojave Ca, Las Vegas Nm, Lubbock Tx., Purcell Oklahoma, Ft. Worth & Dallas Tx., Colorado Springs, and several more locations throughout the west.