MAYER CHINA UNITED STATES LINES STAR CUP & SAUCER

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DESCRIPTION : This is a Cup & Saucer made for The United States Lines. Pieces are from the Late 50's and Early 60's. This is the familiar Star Pattern used by the United States Lines. Nice Pieces for the Restaurant Ware or Ship or Shipping China. The company was formed from the tonnage of the failed United States Mail Steamship Company. It started with three ships, America (formerly Hamburg-Amerika Line's Amerika), and George Washington, both German vessels seized during World War I and kept as reparations. They made New York - Bremen runs, while Centennial State went New York to London. One of the founders was Kermit Roosevelt, son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt.Throughout the 1920s the line accumulated debt, and in March 1929 the line was sold to P.W. Chapman Company, and reorganized as "United States Lines Inc." of Delaware. The stock market crash just made matters worse, and in 1931 the remaining ships were sold to "United States Lines Company" of Nevada. In World War II, the ships were converted into troopships. The Manhattan became the Wakefield, the Washington, the Mount Vernon. The flagship America became the USS West Point. After the war, the company began to build smaller and cheaper ships, and operated a number of cargo ships, all named beginning with "American" or "Pioneer". With government subsidy for her construction, read more

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