WEDGWOOD College Plates
Wedgwood issued its first set of College Plates in 1927, 12 views of Harvard University in blue. They chose a Fruit and Flower border that had been used on Harvard dIning hall china c.1840. The following year, a set of twelve plates was issued for Saint Paul's Preparatory School in Concord, New Hampshire, many of whose graduates go on to college at Harvard. A border featuring Oak leaves, acorns and squirrels was chosen to reflect the rural nature of this boys' school. Several other schools had plates issued in 1929, and by 1930 these plates had proved so popular that most prestigous colleges were having them made.
In most cases, these plates were issued in series of eight or twelve views for each school, and, in many cases, a school will have plates in more than one color or more than one series. When I have more than one plate in a series, I show a representative plate below, along with a link to a page showing the other plates that I have in that series.
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Rutgers University Sold |
Brandeis University Sold |
Brown University $49 |
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Chicago, University of Sold |
Columbia University $49 |
Phillips Exeter Academy
Sold |
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Harvard University 1927 $49 |
Hawaii, University of $65 |
Mount Ida College (MA) Sold (Click on photo to enlarge) |
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Mass. Inst. of Tech. (Mulb.) |
Mass. Inst. of Tech. (Bone) |
Mass. Inst. of Tech. (1952) |
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New York University $39 |
North Dakota, U. of Sold |
Yale University from $49 |
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