The above photo shows various china restaurantware naval antique platters, antique plates or bowls being displayed on a dining room table crafted from a restored WWII Liberty Ship Hatch Cover
The above photo shows various china restaurantware naval antique platters, antique plates or bowls being displayed on a dining room table crafted from a restored WWII Liberty Ship Hatch Cover
Large WWII Imperial Japanese Navy Serving Platter - Note the cherry blossom in middle of anchor. There were two other identified patterns that the Imperial Japanese Navy used besides this one, Click HERE for Japanese Naval Collection.
Large WWII Third Reich German Kriegsmarine (translates: War Navy) Platters one with green stripes and the other with red stripes. On the bottom all German Navy or Kriegsmarine will have the Third Reich Eagle and below it a Swastika and below that a letter M. There is a third identified pattern with outside 2 thin stripes being gold and larger inner stripe being blue. Click HERE for More WWII German Kriegsmarine Navy Tableware
Large Netherlands Koninklijke Marine (KM) or Royal Navy Tureen or Serving Bowl. Click HERE For More Netherlands Koninklijke Marine or Royal Navy Tableware
Large Size Soviet Navy USSR Serving Dish or Platter. 11" from handle to handle with the post-WWII Soviet Navy Insignia VMF.. Click HERE For USSR Soviet Navy Tableware
Medium Size Russian Navy or Soviet Union People's Navy Serving Dish. Click HERE For USSR Soviet Union Russian Navy Tableware
Above photos illustrate an 1890's to 1910 Austro Hungarian Navy large size serving platter 17" x 11.5". Click HERE For Kaiserliche und Konigliche (KuK) Kriegsmarine Porzellan Dinnerware and Tableware
Large Modern Day Royal Canadian Navy Combined Armed Forces Double Badged Serving Platter - Note the topmark of the combined services: British Royal Crown, combined crossed swords, propeller and anchor all surrounded by maple leaves. Click HERE For More Royal Canadian Navy Dinnerware
Royal Canadian Navy Serving Platter (pre-Combined Armed Forces) - Note the badge consisting of a fouled anchor, British Royal Crown surrounded by maple leaves. Made by Medalta of Canada with what appears to be a 1952 date code. Click HERE For More Royal Canadian Navy Dinnerware
Royal Australian Navy (RAN) 9" oval china platter with associated topmark. Click HERE For More Royal Australian Navy Dinnerware
British Royal Navy Meat Platter, 17.5"x14" and weighing 5lbs! The topmark illustrates the traditional British Navy Royal Crown atop an oval medalion with a fouled anchor surrounded by the latin text "SIGIL OFFI MAG ADMIR MAG BR &C" translated to "The Seal of the Office of the Lord High Admiral of Great Britain, etc". Note the juice drains and collecting pocket are very similar to the US Navy and Confederate States Navy's turkey servers or platters as shown on this page. Click HERE For More British Royal Navy Dinnerware
Medium Size USCG US Coast Guard Serving Dish. Click HERE For More USCG Coast Guard Officer and Enlisted Mess Tableware
RARE Medium Size WWII to Vietnam era US Navy Wardroom Officer's Anchor 12x6" Oval Bowl with Flanged Sides. Click HERE For More Wardroom Officers Mess
RARE Medium Size WWII US Navy Captain's 9" Oval Bowl with Flanged Sides. Click HERE For More Captains Mess Tableware
Large Size (22" x 10" and heavy!) bottom dated 1898 US Navy Senior Officer's Fish Server - Pattern and insignia has been verified to have been in use as early as 1894. Click HERE For More Antique US Navy History Dinnerware Topmark Rank and Identification
Very Large Size (20" x 14" and heavy!) Civil War era to the 1890's US Navy Senior Officer's Turkey, Poultry or Meat Serving Platter or Bowl. We have a number of pieces of china with this specific USN insignia but were never able to determine a specific manufacturer or production date due to lack of bottom marks. However most recently we have come to obtain a Serving Dish which had both a manufacturer and date, see below! Click HERE For More Antique US Navy History Dinnerware Topmark Rank and Identification
Medium Size Serving Dish (12" x 5") used in the Officers Wardroom Mess bottom marked "James M. Shaw & Co. New York 1892". Note that this serving dish has the exact same topmark stylized USN as does the Fish Server but also has a manufacturer and date as the backstamp verifying provenance, 1892.
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Huge Fish Serving Platter (22" x 10") Part of the Official Navy-issued China produced for Admiral Dewey after he received his 4th Star and made "Admiral of the Navy" after having successfully engaged the Spanish Armada at Manila Bay during the Spanish American War. This was the highest ranking naval officer ever, and this is an historically significant piece of naval dinnerware.
Note the 4 Star Flag with Fouled Anchor to the left and the Union Jack with 45 white stars to the right, along with the initials USN placed between. This was representative of the Union Jack of 45 stars that was flown on Dewey's flagship the USS Olympia during the SpanAm War.
Each star in the Union Jack represents a state. In 1896 Utah was added as the 45th state in the Union and an additional star was added to the national flag and the union jack for a total of 45 stars. This number of states and stars remained the same for 12 years when in 1907 Oklahoma joined the Union as the 46th state, Click Here to Review List of States as Entered by Date into the Union).
The fish server has a manufacturers backstamp with a capital "M" above the word "CHINA" which is above a capital "L" which was the bottom mark used by the Maddock Lamberton China Company ca 1890's-1911! This backstamp has been documented and can be seen in Barbara Conway's authoritive "Restaurant China Identification Guide, Volume 2".
So during this period there was only a single 4 Star Admiral in the Navy, and it was none other than Dewey Click Here To Review List of 4 Star Admirals)! Additionally the initials USN being used are in the older pre-WWI font and style. The number of stars shown on the Union Jack is 45 which spans the years 1896 to 1907.
So therefore this fish server can not be any other than Admiral Dewey's.
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Shown to the left in the photograph is a very large (19" x 14") and heavy Civil War Confederate States Navy (CSN) Navy Meat or Poultry Server or Platter. Note the design similarities between the US Navy and British Navy Meat and Poultry Servers. The photo to the right shows the CSN Insigina and Motto "Aide Toi Et Dieu T'Aidera" which translates "Help yourself and God will help you"
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Large Size, (18" x 13" and heavy) 1880's to 1890's US Navy Officer's Meat Platter or Serving Platter. Note the simple square chain design around the rim without any other identifying topmark.
Both the manufacturer's and distributor's mark on the bottom is well known: "Greenwood China made expressly for the U.S. Navy - James M Shaw Co, NY". It has been suggested that this platter is ca-1860's Civil War era however we disagree since Greenwood China was only incorporated as the "Greenwood China Company" in 1868 and did not begin to make heavy gauge vitrified commercial china in 1876.
Whereas while the James M. Shaw Company was founded in 1828 and sold in 1936 the US Navy began to standardize on it's china patterns in the very learly 1890's and this linked chain pattern was not one of them. And as the backstamp indicates this platter was made by Greenwood China expressly for the U.S. Navy and distributed to the Navy by James M. Shaw and Company. Therefore the dating of this platter must be between 1878 and 1893, possibly as late as 1905.
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Medium Size WWI to WWII US Navy Plain White Enlisted 10" Oval Serving Bowl. Bottom stamped Scammell U.S. Navy. Click HERE For More US Navy Enlisted Mess and Galley Dinnerware
Medium Size Vietnam-era USMC US Marine Corps 10" Serving Dish. Bottom stamped Syracuse China USMC. Click HERE For More USMC Marine Corps Officer and Enlisted Mess Tableware
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