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similar regulation, the company turned to automation, with new equipment funded by the sale of several buildings. In 1946, Robert E. Gould (1900–1979), known in the ceramics industry as the "master potter," was named president. By this time, economic efficiency had forced the company to drop customization in favor of mass production of a limited catalog of designs.
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Harold M. Esty Jr. (1914–1986), John D. Larkin's grandson, served as the company's president from 1964 until 1970, overseeing the production of a wider range of designs and the installation of state-of-the-art direct screening, offset printing, and glaze equipment. By 1965, the company was producing
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Buffalo China with Heebner serving on Oneida's board until 1994. Oneida increased Buffalo China's manufacturing space and added a manufacturing plant in Mexico. In 2004, due to an economic downturn, Oneida sold the factory in Buffalo to Niagara Ceramics Corporation and closed the factory
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During World War II, the company again manufactured primarily for the US military. However, the company was declared a non-essential factory and was not permitted to replace employees who left to serve in the military. Having lost some of its best skilled labor and with competitors not subject to
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In addition to the china produced for distribution as premiums to Larkin customers, Buffalo
Pottery produced many lines of semi-vitreous china, including Deldare Ware, Roosevelt Bears, and Abino Ware, as well as the first Blue Willow dinnerware manufactured in the United States. These wares were
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Buffalo
Pottery was located on 8.5 acres at Seneca Street and Hayes Place in Buffalo, New York. At the time of its completion in 1903, the 80,000 square foot plant was the largest fireproof pottery in the world; and it was also the only pottery in the world completely operated by electricity.
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Buffalo
Pottery and pre-1983 Buffalo China chinaware is considered highly collectible by antique, porcelain, hotel/restaurant ware, and railroad collectors. Rarer hand-decorated pieces of lines such as Deldare Ware and Abino Ware have sold for thousands of dollars each.
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Under the leadership of John D. Larkin Jr. (1877–1945) in the late 1920s, Buffalo
Pottery changed its focus to manufacturing custom institutional, restaurant, railroad, steamship, and hotel ware. The company would produce ware for such entities as the
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with premiums for its customers. The company's first general manager, Lewis H. Bown, recruited a number of skilled craftsmen and artisans from throughout the United States, including
William J. Rea, Anna Kappler, and Ralph Stuart.
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