With so much thanks to our friend Roland Burritt who researched this on our behalf, we now know that a New Jersey woolen company called Forstmann & Huffman ordered this china, presumably for their company cafeteria and social club:

From an article in the Nov. 29, 1911, issue of the New York Tribune, “The Forstmann & Huffmann Company, Passaic, N.J., was founded in 1904, with a capital of $750,000 by and under the personal direction of [president] Julius Forstmann …” The company’s goal was “to manufacture in American woolens as fine in quality as any produced in European mills.” By 1908, an additional plant was added in Garfield, N.J.

Roots for the company went back to 1803 in Werden-on-the-Ruhr, Germany and the founding of the original Forstmann & Huffman. As of Dec. 1, 1931, (from an article in Passaic’s The Morning Call), the company named changed to the Forstmann Woolen Co., with no associated change in ownership. It seems that despite the inclusion of the Huffmann name in the United States, the company here was always owned entirely by Forstmann and his family.

A 1929 story in Hackensack, N.J.’s The Record mentions a “card party and social” at the “F. & H. Cafeteria of the Garfield plant … for “about one hundred and fifty members and friends.” Presumably, that’s where the company’s china was used.

Our best guess on date range for this bowl would be the nine years between when Carr opened in 1916 and before 1926, when the distributor L. Barth & Son merged with Albert Pick.