The most prominent Viennese factory producer of silver goods in Austria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, originated by the amalgamation of the Stephan Mayerhofer (1772–1852) and Carl Klinkosch (1797–1860) companies in 1830. Its shop was on the corner of the Kohlmarkt in Vienna I, and the factory in the suburbs. The company was purchased in 1918 by Arthur Krupp, and he amalgamated it with the Berndorfer Metallwarenfabrik.

One of Schenker's patrons in the 1900s, Irene Graedener, was a member of the Mayerhofer family.