Victorian Turkish Baths Picture of the Month May 2004
 

Small tip dish from the Imperial Hotel,
Russell Square, London


Tip dish, obverse
< Photo: Ronald R Olson                          Top

 

Tip dish reverse
< Photo: Ronald R Olson                 Underneath
 

These small pottery dishes advertising the hotel's Turkish baths were just under 4½ inches in diameter and were manufactured by Wood & Sons Ltd of Burslem.

Called tip dishes by some collectors, they were widely used in the hotel and were probably left in strategic positions in the bars, bedrooms, and bathrooms to encourage patrons to leave a tip.
  Ronald R Olson, of New Mexico, for his photographs
 

                
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