So, hotel vs railway - that makes more sense and explains their abundance. I’ve always seen sellers promote them as railway, because of the obvious name on them. Some go for quite a high price, like the example I linked to. A lot of people buy chinaware marked CPR thinking they must be Railway dining car, but unless you know the patterns, they can as easily be exclusively hotel patterns.
Thanks for the info (and love that compote!),
Ralph
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