Here is some information on L.Barth&Son: They seem to have retailed (wholesale only?) all kinds of cookware, including items made of copper, silverplated items and apparently also china.
The company is mentioned in http://www.oldcopper.org/Marks%20A-B.htm and http://www.oldcopper.org/Marks%20B.htm for copper and, inter alia, in http://www.kovels.com/priceguide/kovels_matchholder/2005/shenango_china/2104057.html and www.tias.com/102/PictPage/1922768251.html for china. Some items are available on ebay. For china, they also seem to have supplied the railroads as I found two mentionings for this area (one on ebay and one on http://www.havilandonline.com/railroad.htm). It would thus not be surprising to see them having sold items to the Ritz Carlton. Other examples for silver plated items can be found at http://www.rubylane.com/shops/knicknacnook/item/1843
I just found some more information on the background of the company and it is indeed a wholesaler and not a maker, hence it was not mentioned in Rainwater: If you go to http://www.restaurantwarecollectors.com/forums/showthread.php?t=821, have a look at where it says “L. Barth & Son was a distributor. Barbara's Volume 2, page 610 lists L. Barth Co. of New York City, New York and says...
‘Leopold Barth founded this firm in 1868. Distributed GDA, Greenwood , Grindley, Maddock ( U.S. ), D.E. McNicol, Rosenthal. Scammell, Shenango, Syracuse & Warwick china. Supplied at least nine patterns to the railroads. Merged with Albert Pick in 1926 and operated as Albert Pick-L.Barth Co. until 1931 when L. Barth was eliminated from the name.’”
I then checked Rainwater: Albert Pick & Co. ( Bridgeport , Connecticut ) is mentioned in Rainwater on page 184 as a manufacturer of silverplated flatware and holloware. On replacements.com, some china can be found at http://www.replacements.com/china/AKPIMG01.htm and flatware under “Pick-Barth” at http://www.replacements.com/silver/PIKIMG01.htm
In April, someone sold a catalogue of the company on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4629338408&category=378&fkxs=1)
There it says:
“This 95-year-old volume is the 1911 catalogue for L. Barth & Son, which offered hotel, restaurant and saloon supplies. Under the motto "Everything at One Place ," the company offered china, glass, silverware, cutlery, woodenware, furniture, linens, ranges, utensils, sundries and other items. It said it could provide complete equipment for hotels, clubs, cafes, railroad dining cars, steamships, hotels and saloons. This big well-illustrated catalogue backs up the claim. There seems to be nothing that the company couldn't provide. The company called itself "the great mail order hotel, restaurant and saloon supply store." It boasted a "great factory at 644-646-648-650 W. 44th St. in New York City ," along with general offices and salesrooms at 30-32-34-36 Cooper Square in New York City . (That address now is claimed by the Village Voice newspaper.)
L. Barth & Son was a distributor of various wares and is remembered today for its china. Barbara Conroy, in "Restaurant China Volume 2," page 610, lists L. Barth Co. of New York , N.Y. , and says: "Leopold Barth founded this firm in 1868. Distributed GDA, Greenwood , Grindley, Maddock ( U.S. ), D.E. McNicol, Rosenthal, Scammell, Shenango, Syracuse and Warwick china. Supplied at least nine patterns to the railroads. Merged with Albert Pick in 1926 and operated as Albert Pick-L.Barth Co. until 1931 when L. Barth was eliminated from the name." In addition, much of the china supplied to the railroads was ordered via a small number of wholesaler companies. Two of the largest were L. Barth & Son of New York and Burley & Co. of Chicago , and their backmarks are often found along with the railroad’s name on the backmark.
Barth's catalogue showed the scope of its wares. The tableware department section included semi-vitreous ware, Greenwood china, Syracuse China , English vitrified china and G.D.A. French china manufactured by Porcelaines G.D.A. in Limoges , France .
Other china items were toilet sets; fireproof baking dishes; tea, coffee and chocolate pots; water coolers and ice tubs; vinegar jugs; mixing bowls, and butter jars.
Tableware included nickel-silver, silver plated, triple plus plate, as well as sugar bowls, soup tureens, coffee pots, creamers, salad casters, meat dish covers, casseroles with holders, corn servers, steak holders, chafing dishes, coffee percolators, trays and vegetable dishes.
There was plain and fancy pressed table tumblers, lead-blown tumblers, pressed and blown water goblets, water bottles, oyster cocktail serving pieces, ice cream dishes, celery trays, vinegar bottles, sale and pepper shakers, stemware, bar bottles, plain-cut and etched decanters and bitter bottles, beer mugs and steins, flasks and demijohns, Tom and Jerry sets, and more.
There were various corks, picnic beer pumps, beer faucets, wooden mallets, cork pullers, lemon and lime squeezers, bar spoons, lemon knives, muddlers, wine coolers and stands, water filters, papier mache trays, glass and bottle brushes, hot water urns, match holders and sausage cookers.
Kitchen equipment includes Barth ranges, French ranges, hotel and restaurant broilers, hammered copper kitchen utensils, seamless aluminum cooking utensils, seamless re-tinned steel hotel kitchen ware, enameled nickel steel ware, heavy steel and iron cooking utensils, fry baskets, cruller pots and drainers, ice cream molds, copper molds, pastry and vegetable cutters, graters, fruit and vegetable slicers and choppers, Sterling vegetable peelers, butter paddles and butter spades, egg slicers, milk shakers, meat and fruit presses, meat choppers, coffee mills, knife grinders, mustard spoons, tooth picks, bread boards, cutting boards, butcher blocks, meat saws, cook's knives and spring scales.
There also are baskets, fly traps, water coolers, ice cube cutters, hand-operated and power ice cream freezers, ice cream and milk cabinets or refrigerators, floor mats, brushes and brooms, toilet paper, polishes, cuspidors and spittoons, bathroom fixtures, palms and plants, hanging baskets, artificial vines and garlands, brass hotel key and baggage checks, metal trade tokens, badges, waiters' and bartenders' coats and vests, lace and lawn curtains, tablecloths and towels.
The furniture department offered hotel bedding; brass beds; iron beds; enameled iron beds; bed springs; bentwood chairs and tables; "Neverwear'' metal furniture; child's furniture; bedroom chairs; cane and wood seat dining and bedroom chairs; rockers for parlor or bedroom; Adirondack lawn furniture; rustic hickory furniture; settees for lobby, lawn or billiard room; oak hotel dressers of quartered oak; chiffoniers; washstands; dressing tables; desks; sideboards; buffets; kitchen cabinets and cupboards; wardrobes; bedroom tables; dining room tables; desk tables; writing tables; library tables, and lots more.”
I think this should be plenty of information
Kind regards
Karin

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