[quote]LOL !! Oh,, did you also get to go on the obligatory ” Snipe Hunt ” ?? A rite of passage for most young southerners !!
http://collectrosenthal.com/designers.html You can cross van Loon off the list !! he didn`t start with Rosenthal till 1980 !! The list is all the artists and designers that worked for or with Rosenthal. I didn`t see anything else that looked helpful !![/quote]

Well I just heard back from the nice lady at Rosenthal Germany and it turns out that this pattern was designed by Bjorn Wiinblad.

The really strange thing still though is that she says this was not a limited edition run pattern at all but even with the designer, brand, series and pattern names now I still cannot find a single photo or reference to the pattern anywhere.

Very strange indeed.