The Hall China Company of East Liverpool, Ohio, has produced millions of beautiful china pieces since its founding in 1903. But by far its most popular pattern is what was later named Autumn Leaf.
A decade ago, Jewel Tea Co. consisted of little more than a chain of Chicago-area supermarkets. Then it began branching into other lines and locations. Renamed the Jewel Companies, it has grown into a ...
The Hall China Company of East Liverpool, Ohio, made the first pieces of the Autumn Leaf pattern ware, also known as Jewel Tea, as premiums for the Jewel Tea Company of Barrington, Ill., in 1933, with ...
One year before the Century’s turn a Chicago tea salesman named Frank Vernon Skiff who had saved $700 started a wagon route on his own, peddling dry groceries from door to door. He peddled for two ...