Post #550073 by manndrew on Wed, Aug 25, 2010 1:12 PM

I posted the following on another topic:

"I surf the web from time to time looking for any information that may have been posted about The House of Favors, Boston. This was a company started by my Grandfather who was in the restaurant supply business. My father joined the company in the 1940's and traveled extensively to Hong Kong, Tokyo and later Seoul where he designed and then imported plastic and china novelties. One of our accounts was the Mono Laua chain and the mugs and bowls were all created for the polynesian restaurant business. My father also designed party goods items for birthdays, baby and bridal showers and weddings. After the jobber/wholesale business ran out of steam we concentrated on retailing. The first location was at 89 Chauncy Street, downtown Boston and we branched out to several stores in the suburbs. The last store was sold in 1993. I spent many years as a child working for my father, learning the business from the shipping room to the accounting books. I still have the last catalog we produced. It was a real joy seeing this post about the mugs and the HF logo which my father designed. Favor-It brand was the trade name for the importing business. Is there a real value for these mugs and bowls? I had a bunch of them years ago, but tossed them when we closed the store."

The fact that you discovered an "R.A.M." imprinted on the mug is unbelievable. This would be my father, his name was Raymund Arthur Mann and he was responsible for supplying all the "Tiki Port" and Polynesian restaurants with these products. I thought he designed them as well, but it seems credit for that has been given to someone else. I know, however that The House of Favors, Inc. (my father's company) was the sole importer of these products into the States in the 50's and 60's.

Regards,

Manndrew