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Plate, Dessert

Object number2016.77.20

Date1983

OriginFalls Creek, PA

MediumCeramic; Paint

Credit LineGift of Brenda Weber

DescriptionWhite ceramic dessert plate with a depiction of a sleeping kitten with a pillow and blanket made out of the night sky that surrounds it. There is text in black on the back.DimensionsDiameter x Depth: 8.375 × 0.875 in. (21.3 × 2.2 cm)
InscriptionsText on the front states "Sleep like a Kitten".

Text on the base states ""Sleep Like a Kitten" / 1983 / 50th Anniversary Edition / Limited to 12,000 / No. [handwritten text] / Nostalgia Station / B&O Railroad Museum / "Chessie" was adopted as the mascot / of the C&O Railway in 1933, and is now the symbol of the Chessie System Railroads. / Design adopted from the / C&O Railway's 1941 corporate calendar. / "Chessie", a registered service mark, / is reproduced with the permission of the / Chessie System Railroads."

The gold handwritten text on the back states "3620".
Historical NotesPart of a collection of pieces made by the Jackson China Company. These were collected by the donor’s parents Marilyn and Wallace Weber. Marilyn’s mother had a Xenia patterned plate from Jackson China and Marilyn wanted to complete the set, this started a lifetime of collecting Jackson China. Collected to document a local industry and company. Jackson China was located in Falls Creek, PA and was started by Harry William Jackson after moving to Dubois, PA in 1914. He purchased the former Bohemian Art Pottery site (formerly Crystal Glass Company site) and formed Jackson China Company with Emanuel A. Fischel who had started Bohemian. Jackson was an English immigrant. Jackson was murdered by an employee in 1924 and Fischel ran the company until 1943. The pottery was most known for industrial restaurant ware, but also had several lines of fine china. The collection documents a range of both time and styles produced by Jackson as well as some items that show competitor's China, unfinished pieces with their finished counterparts, and tools of the trade. Jackson China closed in 1985.

Collector Marilyn Weber

Collector Wallace Weber

Related institution Baltimore and Ohio Railroad

Related institution Chesapeake & Ohio Railway

Related institution Chessie System, Inc.

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