On the first Saturday of each month, the HF Coors Dinnerware manufacturing plant has a factory sale. Papa and I went this morning and loved it! They sell seconds and extras for 25 cents to $6. We bought mugs and bowls, and spent $14. What a find in Tucson!
HF Coors-Dinnerware Made in the USA was formed in California in 1925 by Herman Frederick Coors, son of the renowned Coors brewery founder, Adolf Coors. Adolph Coors opened the Colorado Glass Works in 1887 to manufacture beer bottles for his brewery, the Adolph Coors Brewing company. The Glass works was leased to German born ohn Herold in 1910, who incorporated the Herold China and Pottery Company on the brewery site in Golden, CO. Herold used clay from nearby mines to make dinnerware and heat resistant porcelain ovenware under the trademark Herold Fireproof China. Adolph Coors Company acquired Herold China in 1914 and the company began producing chemical porcelain in 1915 as a result of a World War I embargo on German imports. Adoph Coors' second son, Herman F. Coors, was named manager in 1916. Herold China was renamed Coors Porcelain Company in 1920, and the trademark "Coors U.S.A." was first used. During Prohibition, the ceramic business was largely what kept the brewery afloat. Herman left in 1925 to start the HF Coors China Company, to manufacture dishes for restaurants and institutional use, in Inglewood, CA. HF Coors' assets were acquired by Catalina China of Tucson and moved from California to Tucson in 2003. http://www.hfcoors.com/
