Manufacturer: Carr China Company
User: Southern Mansion
Date of soup bowl: Unknown
Date of sample plates: 1946

Carr sample plate from the WV Museum Collection

Another Carr sample plate

photo taken from this website, with permission: http://www.vintagekansascity.com/food-and-drink/dining_guide/southern_mansion.htm

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Notes: Thanks to Jim Mitchell, curator of the West Virginia State Museum, we were able to ID this one based on the addition of the restaurant's motto: "Famous for food."

It was located at 1425 Baltimore and 14th streets in Kansas City, Mo.

According to a story on pitch.com, written by Charles Ferruzza, "It was a white-tablecloth dining room with mirrored columns, a spacious dance floor and a bandstand big enough for a small orchestra," Ferruzza wrote. "The restaurant's motto (on the card, anyway) was "Famous for food."

"'It was probably more famous for gambling,' says veteran talk-show host Walt Bodine, who remembers hearing about police raids on the place back in the 1940s. 'I heard stories about cards and dice being frantically flushed down toilets. But I never ate there.'"

Also see the ad below contributed by Vintage Kansas City, with the ad's color very similar to the green on the soup bowl.

A sample plate from the West Virginia Museum collection, shown above, missed the mark as to the green color.

We've just added a brown variation of this pattern below, but because it was purchased along with several other plates with exactly the same color brown and size and shape, we think it was likely produced as a sample and was not used at the restaurant.

White body soup plate with a narrow lime green band around the top of the verge. At the top of the rim is a drawing of a colonial columned mansion surrounded by trees with a stagecoach approaching from the right. In the foreground of the mansion on the left is a sign with the stacked wording "Southern", "Famous for food", "Mansion" also in a matching lime green.

Sources:
Pitch.com – story by Charles Ferruzza
Vintage Kansas City – ad for the Southern Mansion

Contributors:
Susan and Ed Phillips