Moore-McCormack Lines
mooremack pattern detail Mfg.: Sterling
Pattern name: Rio*
Item illustrated: 9½" dinner plate
Item date: 1973
Circa: late 1950's - 1960's
Steamship company backstamp: no 		 

 

 mooremack item detail
Pattern description: This pattern features a stencil and airbrushed design representing the harbor at Rio de Janeiro, with Sugarloaf in the background. Additionally, a colorful underglaze decal of a pair of bleeding heart flowers and leaves appears. Smaller items, such as A.D. cups and saucers, have merely the flower and a grey, airbrushed rim.
Submitted by: Cabin Class Collectibles
Pattern notes: Steamship company backstamps are commonly seen on items in this pattern, but one is absent on the example illustrated. Also, the 1973 date code on this piece is a bit puzzling, as we had not thought that this china was in use as late as the 1970's The principal Mooremack passenger vessels, SS Argentina and SS Brasil, were laid up in 1969. Perhaps the pattern was retained for the officers' mess aboard Mooremack's cargo vessels?
Contributors: 
Resources: How to Identify and Price Ocean Liner Collectibles by Karl Spence; Restaurant China, Vols. 1 and 2 by Barbara Conroy
*Karl Spence refers to this pattern as MM3

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