🔎 UNIDENTIFIED DRPM? Restaurant China What Does it mean

[SlagMaster]

Picked up this cup and saucer at the flea market yesterday. Cant find it in the restaurant china books. Does anyone know what this stands for? I am thinking ship china from great lakes but it could be railroad or restaurant or ? Iroquois mark dates between 1917 up to 1940's.

 

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[gillious]

What area are you in. Maybe a trip to your local historical society would have records of a local restaurant, train, hotel etc. That would possibly have ordered the pieces.

 

[Mackaydon]

Any images or words on the bottom of either object?
Don....

 

[SlagMaster]

Any images or words on the bottom of either object?
Don....

Just the Iroquois china mark on both.

 

[cw0909]

Just the Iroquois china mark on both.

if you could give us the date code letter and number, that would would help us
narrow a time frame for the imprint on the cup, an img of the code would be helpful too

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Date Codes - Iroquois China < Restaurant Ware Collectors Network

Iroquois China Date Codes The date codes consist of a letter/number code. The LETTER represents the year and the NUMBER the quarter/or month. Block letter bottom stamps were used pre-1940; and script (cursive) bottom stamps were used after 1940. Year/Month 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922...

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[SlagMaster]

Picture is not very clear but they both appear to be marked P-2

 

[Retired Sarge]

P-2 if correct would be Feb 1930.

Date Codes - Iroquois China < Restaurant Ware Collectors Network

Iroquois China Date Codes The date codes consist of a letter/number code. The LETTER represents the year and the NUMBER the quarter/or month. Block letter bottom stamps were used pre-1940; and script (cursive) bottom stamps were used after 1940. Year/Month 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922...

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[cw0909]

Thanks for the date code,1930 start of the great depression,thinking that will make it much
harder to ID. DRPM was prob well known and popular and doing well enough to have cups made.
I started working off the Indian Chief and the P, M, as maybe a city named for a chief, came
up with the Ottawa chief Pontiac and Pontiac, Michigan named for him, thought some D name D/
Dale,Don, Donna restaurant,Pontiac, Michigan, and probably close to one of the car plants.
Many businesses that depended on the car industry at that time closed up an never reopened.

 

[SlagMaster]

Thanks everyone I think it is solved someone on facebook suggested it stands for Red Men Degree of Pocahantas. It would be from an Improved Order of Red Men local lodge and yes the date code is 1930. I contacted the Red Men museum and they said they think that is what is stands for.

 

[Retired Sarge]

Thanks everyone I think it is solved someone on facebook suggested it stands for Red Men Degree of Pocahantas. It would be from an Improved Order of Red Men local lodge and yes the date code is 1930. I contacted the Red Men museum and they said they think that is what is stands for.

Cool that you could get an ID, as sometimes these things are lost to history.