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Tableware, Glassware and Misc. Fittings
from the former Book Cadillac Hotel, Detroit
[ barring the crest, it had no relationship to the Cadillac Motor Car Division of GM ]

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Left: The Hotel Cadillac, Detroit, MI;
right: the Book Cadillac Hotel in downtown Detroit

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Door knobs and room key fobs all
featured the renowned Cadillac crest

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Various rim designs were used
all of them featured the Cadillac crest

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Above six rows: plates, serving dishes
tureens, sauce boats and ash trays

The lower set of Frauenfelter china was made
in Detroit, in 1924, by Albert LPick & Company

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Ornate, crested menu binder (detail at right)

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Crested book match holder / ashtray, crested silver spoon and knives

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"Book" matches from the "Book" hotel

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All bathrooms had a recipient like this
for discarding used razor blades - neat !

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The hotel silverware was embossed with either the effigy of Antoine de Lamothe-Cadillac
(e.g. spoon handle, left) or with his family crest (e.g. tea pot and candelabrum (center and right)

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This 1912 silver sugar boat is marked "Cadillac Hotel"

Other Misc. Tableware, Glassware, etc.
[ not from the hotel ]

Miscellaneous

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...but first a bar menu from"The Cadillac Bar
in Nuevo Laredo, Tamps., Mexico

Cookie Plates / Jars

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These cookie dishes feature a Cadillac
Model A (left) and a 1930 phaeton (right)

Serving Trays

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A couple of serving trays decorated with early Cadillac models

Trivets, etc.

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Decorated trivet
(1903 Cadillac)

Trays

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A day at the beach ...when the 1904 Cadillac Model B broke down!
[ probably a piece from the late sixties or early seventies ]

Ashtrays

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Decorative ashtrays depicting turn of the century Cadillac models

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Ashtray gift set (left) one of which features a Cadillac Model A (right)

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Three more decorated ashtrays; item at right has mid sixties "V" and crest

Decanters

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Amaretto liqueur flask by ASI, from the mid-seventies; chinaware model
depicting a 1903-04 Model A runabout with tonneau and picnic hamper

Cups, Saucers, Mugs

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Cup and saucer set decorated with a 1903 Cadillac Model A (left)
...and an egg cup to match the cup and saucer (right)

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Two-handled mug featuring 1932 Town Car

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Cute "1959 Cadillac" coffee mug

Glasses

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Lemonade and beer glasses

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Cadillac Club glass with crest (left)
Set of wine glasses with etched Cadillac models (right)

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"Glasses" made from '59 tail-light lenses, by Peter Wilding Frey
Champagne anyone?
[ Photo by Mel Melcon ]

Š 1996, Yann Saunders and the Cadillac-LaSalle Club, Inc.
[ Background image: drawing of a'59 Cadillac convertible, a gift from J.-M. Roux ]