Rare Antique Austria France Higgins & Seiter New York 2 Ramekins w plates Roses

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The set is in very good condition, especially for age. - see pics.
This set of two small plates and  two ramekins with roses and black border are really chic.
History of Higgins & Seiter:
By the turn of the last century, the blocks between Fifth and Sixth Avenues below 23
rd
Street—once tony residential enclaves—saw drastic change.  Retail establishments spilled over from Sixth Avenue, the major shopping district for women; and small businesses set up in converted rowhouses.
Well-dressed females shopping for wedding gifts or enviable cut glass lemonade sets for themselves most likely instructed their carriage drivers to take them to Nos. 50 through 54 West 22
nd
Street.  Here Higgins & Seiter operated its china and glass emporium; considered among the foremost in the city.
The firm was organized just after the end of the Civil War by Colonel Charles Jacob Seiter of the 7
th
Regiment and brothers Barton B. and Arthur Higgins.  The partnership was formalized in 1887 and the three men filled their warerooms with the highest grade and costliest home items imported from Europe.
Business was booming for the retailer and in 1901 it opened a connecting annex directly behind its store, at Nos. 51 through 55 West 21st Street.  The firm had purchased three abutting brick-faced homes which were demolished to make way for its new store and loft building.  Designed by architect Mortimer C. Merritt.