History
The Lefton company was founded in 1940 by George Zoltan
Lefton after he arrived in Chicago in 1939 as an immigrant from Hungary. Shortly after World War II the company started importing china from Japan into the U.S with the "Made in
Occupied Japan" mark, used in the years following
World War II.
Lefton
made a wide variety of pieces, from kitchenware and utilitarian
pieces to purely decorative pieces The Lefton company is still operating today
The
company's marks changed over time but were used for long periods and lack any definitive
dating marks
right now