1950s Culver Harp Scroll Design Footed Serving & 4 Salad Bowl Set Olive Green Gold Trim- 5 Pieces

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Culver Ltd was a glass company famous for its stunning decorative glassware in 22-karat gold.

Culver Ltd was founded in … more Culver Ltd was a glass company famous for its stunning decorative glassware in 22-karat gold.

Culver Ltd was founded in Brooklyn, New York in 1939 by Irving Rothenberg. Culver Glass features real 22-karat gold decoration used effusively and magnificently especially from the late 1950’s on through the 1960s. The company gained notoriety and its products became highly collectible and only sold at high-end department stores. In 1980, the company moved to downtown Rahway, New Jersey. Irving Rothenberg passed away in 1987 and his son, Mark ‘Mickey’ Rothenberg, continued the Culver Glass Company. Mickey ran the company until he sold Culver Ltd. in 1996 to Moderne Glass Company, Inc. Mickey Rothenberg continued in the glass manufacturing business by running another glass company until his death on 9/11. He was one of the passengers on the hijacked Newark-to-San-Francisco flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.

The company’s early production line featured acid etch, decalcomania, sandblasted, hand-painted, banded, sand-cut monogramming, and silkscreen. In the late 1950s, Culver Ltd started the application of 22-karat gold to their glassware. The super-heated, roll-on process of gold remains a secret today. By the 1980s, Culver stopped making its own glass and began using glassware ‘blanks’ produced by other companies. Since 1939, Culver has provided only the finest quality beverage and bar products for homes all across the globe. Eighty years later, we carry the same proud traditions of superior quality and design started by the Rothenburg family into the next generation of housewares. less