1955 Homer Laughlin Skytone China Service for 8 Dinnerware - 59 Pieces

Description

8 Dinner Plates 10 1/4” Diameter 1 slight chip on platinum edge
8 Salad Plates 7 1/4” Diameter
8 Bread … more 8 Dinner Plates 10 1/4” Diameter 1 slight chip on platinum edge
8 Salad Plates 7 1/4” Diameter
8 Bread & Butter Plates 6 1/4” Diameter
8 Fruit Dessert Sauce Bowls 5 1/4” Diameter
8 Cups and Saucers Cups 2 1/2” H x 4 1/2” Wide Saucers 6 1/4” Diameter
4 Extra Saucers
2 Vegetable Bowls 7 1/2" Diameter 1 bowl has slight chip on back
1 Oval Serving Platter 13 1/2” x 11” slight chip on back not noticeable from front
1 Creamer 2 3/4” H x 7” Wide
1 Sugar Bowl with Lid 2 3/4” H x 5”Wide
1 Salt Shaker

The color on this set of Skytone HLC china with its platinum rim is spectacular. The Lilly of the valley mid century motif is iconic. This is a numbered discontinued set.Beautiful

This mid Century set was purchased through a Navel Air Base in Memphis Tennessee in the 1950's
Homer Laughlin China maintains contracts with the federal government to supply china and dinnerware for a range of functions. This includes formal dinners to dinnerware for use by US troops at base camps and in the field. A number of these designs are exclusive to the US government[11].

The Homer Laughlin China Company began as Laughlin Pottery in East Liverpool, Ohio. The company was started in 1871 by brothers Shakespeare and Homer Laughlin; however, Shakespeare left the company in 1879.[2][3] In 1889 William Edwin Wells joined Laughlin, and seven years later they incorporated the company. Laughlin sold his interest to Wells shortly thereafter. The firm experienced rapid growth and opened a facility in Newell, West Virginia, in 1903. By the late 1920s all production was centered at the West Virginia factory and the Ohio site was abandoned.[4].

Peak production for the company was in 1948 when they produced 10,129,449 dishes.[5]

In 2010, Homer Laughlin purchased The Hall China Company in East Liverpool, and under the new HLC, Inc. name the two brands are the sole potteries in the area. The Hall company was the producer of Fiesta Ware. less