Buffalo China Howard Johnsons HoJo Pieman Sample Plate
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Up for bid is a beautiful and extremely RARE one of a kind vintage Howard Johnsons HoJo Pieman sample test plate ingreat shape. It is 9 3/4 inches and has a great coloration to it and is only the second one I have ever seen and this one is different and more interesting with the various designs going around the plate. The plate has no chips cracks or repairs and has a rippled Buffalo rim. On the outer rim has the letters (K L J )hich I believe translates to the early fifties- sixties.This plate has virtually no usage but just a few marks seen in the light. Howard Johnson's is a U.S. chain of restaurants and motels which was founded in 1925 by Howard Deering Johnson when he borrowed $2,000 to buy a small corner drugstore in Wollaston, Massachusetts . It sold candy, newspapers and patent medicine .After noticing that his soda fountain was the busiest part of his drugstore , Johnson decided to come up with a new ice cream recipe ,mostly based on his mother's recipe (although some say the recipe actually came from a local ice cream maker, a German immigrant). The new ice cream was more flavorful with a higher butterfat content. He eventually came up with 28 flavors and opened a beachfront ice cream stand. According to Johnson, "I thought I had every flavor in the world. The 28 flavors became my trademark ."Over the next few summers,
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