Goldscheider Everlast Bust

Q: These two Goldscheider busts have been in our family for a long time and we can’t find them on any price guide or for sale anywhere on eBay. Do they have any value?

A: The Goldscheider family made porcelain in Vienna beginning in 1885. They left Austria in 1938, when Nazi Germany annexed the country. One member of the family started a porcelain factory in England. Another member, Walter Goldscheider, started Goldscheider-U.S.A. in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1940. It became Goldscheider-Everlast Corporation in 1941 and was Goldcrest Ceramics Corporation from 1947 to 1953. The company is now Goldscheider of Vienna, a wholesale importer of religious art. The factory in Vienna was returned to Goldscheider in 1950, but it closed in 1953. The mark on your figures indicate they were made between 1941 and 1947. These busts, or bookends, were designed by Helen Liedloff. Prices of busts by the factory are unstable, anything from $60 to $400.