Manufacturer: Hall China User: Missouri Pacific Railway / Lines Pattern: Cobalt or Cobalt Blue Date of matchstand: 1930 – 1970s   Notes: Oval matchstand in cobalt blue with coin gold accent lines and Missouri Pacific buzzsaw logo. Five matching pieces were also made by Hall, including a teapot. Sources: Douglas W.

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Missouri Athletic Club Date of plate: 1911   Notes: This club opened September 13, 1903 at 405 Washington St. in St. Louis, MO. The original clubhouse burned in March 1914. The present 10-story club house opened it doors on March 1, 1916

Manufacturer: Syracuse China Pattern: Mission User: Missouri Pacific Railroad Date of plate: 1938   Notes: This pattern was used aboard the dining cars of the Missouri Pacific. First ordered in 1933, last ordered in 1948. The pattern was last used aboard the crew dining cars of the MoPac wrecker trains.  

Manufacturer: Sterling China User: Mishawaka Farmers Dairy Company Date of plate: 1920s – early 1930s   Notes: The Mishawaka Farmers Dairy Company supplied the cities of Mishawaka and South Bend, Indiana. Below is a 1922 company profile from An Account of St. Joseph County from Its Organization by John B. Stoll (Dayton

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Hotel Miramar Date of cup: 1952   Notes: Click here for hotel history. The Miramar opened in 1921 in Santa Monica, CA and has played host to the likes of Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Lindbergh, Eleanor Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Bill Clinton Barbra Streisand and Steven Spielberg.

Manufacturer: Shenango China User: Minneapolis Club Date of plate: 1981   Notes: "The Minneapolis Club, Minneapolis, Minn., was organized in 1883 and incorporated in 1885. Originally, it occupied the second floor of the Syndicate Block, then a newly erected building fronting on Nicollet Avenue and extending from Fifth to Sixth Street.

Manufacturer: Buffalo and Syracuse China User: Hilton Hotel chain Buffalo: date of fruit bowl: circa 1930s Syracuse: date of egg cup: 1934   Notes: The first hotel built by Conrad Hilton – the Dallas Hilton – opened in 1925. Yet, before construction began on the Dallas Hilton, as early as 1923,

Manufacturer: Mayer China Pattern name: Milton Date of plate: 1912 – 1930s   Yellow flowers with green leaves and blue blue leaves and foliage circle the rim of the plate. The flowers resemble morning glories.  

Manufacturer: Syracuse China User: Millikin University Date of sample plate: Circa 1907   Notes: Millikin University is located at 1184 W. Main St., in Decatur, Ill. It was chartered in April 1901, with a gift from prominent Decatur businessman, banker and cattle rancher, James Millikin (1827-1909). It opened Sept. 15, 1903.