Vallona Starr Ceramic Glum and Glee Clowns Made in USA

Vallona Starr Ceramic Glum and Glee Clowns Made in USA In the early 1930s, Everett Starr Frost, Leona Frost, and Valeria Dopyera de Marsa opened a small gift shop called Triangle Studios which sold primarily local California ceramic wares The three partners combined parts of their names – Val from Valeria, Lona from Leona, and Starr from Evertt – to form the name they used for their ceramics – Vallona Starr. In 1946 Triangle Studios and Vallona Starr expanded and moved into a factory in an industrial area of El Monte, California Vallona Starr ceramics followed a similar path of most USA pottery. Production was rampant during World War II, but crashed after the war when cheap Japanese imports flooded the American market. The company closed its doors in 1953.