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Lefton mark can be found on a wide array of pottery, porcelain
, and glass imported into the United States by the George Zoltan
Lefton Company. The company was founded by this new immigrant
from Hungary after he arrived in Chicago, Illinois in 1939 and
established the company in 1940. George Lefton had previously
worked in the clothing and sportwear industry, but he was a collector
of fine porcelain and dreamed of entering that business. America
offered the backdrop for even a new immigrant into the country
to have a chance at commercal success. George Zoltan Lefton had
always admired the quality and workmanship in finer Japanese and
oriental porcelain, and after the end of World War II he pursued
business relationships in post-war Occupied Japan to export Japanese
porcelain to America through his company. George was one of the
first American businessmen to enter post-war Japan, and he worked
with a Japanese-American named Nunome who helps him to arrange
the commercial contracts and becomes his business agent in Japan.
Early Lefton china was imported into the U.S. with a "Made in
Occupied Japan" mark, used in the years immediately following
World War II commencing in about 1946. While not comparable to
the best wares of European or Chinese porcelain manufacturers,
Japanese porcelain was still of good quality and was produced
at a cost that made it affordable for the average American family
in the post-war years. The export of china and ceramics was a
key contributor to the emergence of Japan from the destitution
of the war years and the reinvigoration of their economy. Lefton
made a wide variety of pieces, from kitchenware and utilitarian
pieces to purely decorative pieces to be displayed on the living
room shelf. The company is still in business today, and still
makes collector series such as the Colonial Village Collection
introduced in 1987, the Historic American Lighthouse Collection
in 1991, and the Great American Carousal Collection in 1995. The
company's marks have changed over the course of production, but
most were used for long periods of time and lack any definitive
dating marks. As such, styles and colors are more helpful in dating
Lefton China.
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