shiftythrifting:This fine china cup (it has a handle, it’s just not visible from this angle) intrigu
shiftythrifting:This fine china cup (it has a handle, it’s just not visible from this angle) intrigued me because I STILL can’t find out what happened in 1881 in Carlsbad that made it worth printing on crockery. In the Tavistock Museum charity shop, UK. The Fallbrook, National City line of the California Southern Railway was put into service through Carlsbad on January 2, 1881, but that’s likely not it.It was also the founding year of many things still in Carlsbad, CA today…and the year that John Frazier dug a well that produced mineral water much like that found in many of the world’s most famous spa towns, which very shortly led to the creation of the Carlsbad Spa and even inspired the name ‘Carlsbad’, after Karlsbad in Bohemia (now Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic). This name choice was part of a major advertising campaign to attract tourists. So, might have been from Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary, which was a world famous spad town and well known for souvenior crockery like this, or it might have been from Carlsbad, CA, which was already going to great lengths deliberately trying to evoke that towns’ fame in their own advertising push in that same year that they started up their own spa. -- source link