12 Robins Egg Blue Gilded Porcelain Salt Cellars by Oscar & Edgar Gutherz, Royal, Austria. With the hallmark used from 1898 to 1918. Each 2"x2"x3/4". Good condition. Weight 1 pd. Maximilian Marx and Oscar Gutherz established a porcelain decorating factory along the Rolava (Rohlau) River in Stara Role, Altrohlau, Bohemia in 1884. The business was financed by the famed Importer Lazarus Straus & Sons of New York. By 1889 the business expanded into making porcelain, and in that same year, Oscar Gutherz was joined by brother Edgar (former manager of the New York & Rudolstadt Pottery) who had purchased Marx's share of the business, which led to an expansion, and stepping beyond the exclusive contract which, up to this time, had bound the Gutherz family to market their porcelain under Lazarus Straus & Son, using their LS&S factory mark. After successfully exporting their high quality factory wares with different Import / Export firms for 20 years, the factory was purchased by OPIAG in 1918, under the name of OPIAG Betrisbsstatte (Branch) Altrohlau, with a subsequent name change to EPIAG Betrisbsstatte (Branch) Altrohlau in 1920, which it carried until the factory was nationalized at the end of WW II.

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