Home Sweet Home, that’s what the Swiss Alpine or Swiss
Chalet pattern reminds of. It is one of
those patterns that just make you feel at home - just says ‘family’ and makes
you feel all comfy and warm inside. The
blue, olive green and turquoise blend so well together. My mother’s favorite color combination was
blue and green – maybe that is why she kept these dishes for all those
years. This dinnerware was made in the late
1950s or early 1960s and marketed through gas stations and grocery stores as
premiums.
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| Bread & Butter Plate |
Besides the china dinnerware, there was the milk glass
baking dishes and kitchenware and also, glass tumblers. And, I just discovered
today that there is also kitchen tinware with this pattern called Decoware
(Continental Can Co.?)
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| Set of 3 Tumblers |
Some pieces are marked and some are not. The
dinnerware was made by the Stetson Pottery Co aka Stetson China Co (closed in
1966) for Marshall Burns, a distributor and division of
Technicolor and marketed as Mar-crest.
You will find that some people advertise the milk glass baking ware as Pyrex,
but most agree now that milk glass baking and kitchenware was made by Anchor
Hocking Fire-King and these items are mostly called Swiss Alpine instead
of Swiss Chalet. Not only bakeware, but there are also mugs
and bowls. Then we have the glass
tumblers. I have no idea who made them as there is no mark and I could
not find anything in books or the internet with any definitive answers.
If Anchor Hocking made the ovenware, would they have made the glassware,
too? I don't know. But maybe. I
understand that Stetson also made glassware to match patterns of dinnerware
that they produced, so maybe Stetson made the glassware. Who knows?
I’ve seen standard tumbler size and old-fashioned size glasses in this
pattern.
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| Dinner Plate |
My
mother loved collecting dinnerware and grocery stores sure made it easy
for her. I have to admit that I love dinnerware, too and have several
different patterns that I use depending on my mood. I think the first set
of dinnerware I bought was through a grocery store. Imagine that!
For me dinnerware is fun and why settle on just one pattern? I love mix-matching dinnerware - blending
patterns with solid colors, using pastels for the spring and summer and bold
colors for fall and winter. With the
Swiss Chalet / Alpine, you could use blue, turquoise or olive green solid
colors or a mix of those colors. I
also find it interesting how the pattern varies a little depending on the piece.
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| Cup & Saucer |
It would really be
interesting to know the real story behind this pattern. I found a blog that goes into so much more
detail than I have and also sharing a lot of information on the many pieces
associated with this pattern. You might
want to check her blog article out – really interesting: CULVER CITY P.O.
I had written a blog back in 2010 but after reading hers, thought
I’d better update my blog on the Swiss Chalet pattern. However, there are still so many unanswered questions
about the Swiss Chalet or Swiss Alpine pattern.
I do have some Swiss Chalet or Swiss Alpine pieces for sale
at:
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| Round Chop Platter |
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