Posted by Cathy Grammer-Margolin (24.0.213.136) on January 21, 2001 at 20:26:36:
A history of Haviland is found from the Havilandonline.com front page- background-
second item links to this web site-
http://www.porcelainpond.com/research/history1.html
This has a small history of Johann Haviland, Bavaria.
In the Nora Travis book "Haviland China, the Age of Elegance", 2nd Edition-
page 18 says about the same thing, but it does date the Blue Garland pattern from 1960s to 1980s.