Manufacturer: Sterling China
User: Mayflower Doughnut Corporation
Date of pedestal mug: 1966

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Notes: Adolph Levitt opened the first Mayflower Doughnut Shop in 1931 at Broadway and West 45th Street. To attract customers, he featured a working doughnut machine in the shop's window. Eventually there were 18 Mayflower Doughnut Shops across the country; it was the country's first doughnut chain.

Eventually the company became the Doughnut Corporation of America. The last Mayflower seems to have gone out of business in the 1970s.

It was Levitt who adopted The Optimist's Creed as his own and had it printed on his doughnut boxes and on this pedestal mug:

"As you ramble on through life, brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole."

White mug has medieval jester figures examining doughnuts (donuts) with holes of differing sizes, with The Optimist's Creed on a shield between them. Graphics are in black, gray, red and pink.

For related info:
Mayflower Doughnut Corporation by Shenango China
Mayflower Doughnut Corporation 3 by Iroquois China
Mayflower Doughnut Corporation 4 by Wallace China
Mayflower Doughnut Corporation 5 by Sterling China

ID contributed by Susan Phillips