antique old LS&S Lazarus Straus & sons Carlsbad Austria demitasse teacup saucer

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antique old LS&S Lazarus  Straus & sons Carlsbad Austria demitasse teacup saucer
circa 1895-1917
saucer measures 4 3/8" across. teacup 2" tall.
white china with brown, light blue, green floral pattern, leaves, flowers.
Lazarus Straus and sons, sons Isidor, Nathan and Oskar
They were Jewish immigrants from Otterberg in the Palatinate,
in 1849 Lazarus Straus and his sons founded a porcelain and glass manufacture.
They later became partners in Macy's  department store in  New York, where they sold their wares.,  Isidor Straus  with his wife Ida.
In 1912 made a trip to Europe, the return trip on the RMS Titanic where they both died.
Traveling back from a winter in Europe, mostly spent at Cape Martin
in southern France, Isidor and his wife were passengers on the RMS Titanic.
when, at about 11:40 p.m. on April 14, 1912, it hit an iceberg.
Once it was clear the Titanic was sinking, Ida refused to leave Isidor and would not get into a lifeboat
without him. According to friend and
Titanic
survivor Colonel  Archibald Gracie IV
, when he offered to ask an officer if Isidor could enter a lifeboat with Ida, Isidor refused to be made an exception; Ida is reported to have said, "I will not be separated from my husband. As we have lived, so will we die, together." Ida gave her maid, Ellen Bird, her fur coat and insisted she get into lifeboat No. 8. Isidor and Ida were last seen on deck arm in arm. Eyewitnesses described the scene as a "most remarkable exhibition of love and devotion".
The ship sank at 2:20 am. Isidor's body was recovered by the  cable ship Mackay-Bennett
and taken to Halifax, Nova Scotia,
where it was identified before being shipped to New York. He was first buried in the Straus-Kohns Mausoleum at Beth-El Cemetery in Brooklyn, then moved to the Straus Mausoleum in  Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
in 1928. Ida's body was never found, so the family collected water from the wreck site and placed it in an urn in the mausoleum. Isidor and Ida are memorialized on a cenotaph outside the mausoleum with a quote from the Song of Solomon 8:7.
"Many waters cannot quench love—neither can the floods drown it
location: oak showcase
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