Vintage Culver Rock Glasses Frosted with Gold and Black - Set of 6

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Elegant exquisite vintage set of six rock glasses designed by Culver ltd.
Vintage Culver Set of Six Rock Glasses Frosted … more Elegant exquisite vintage set of six rock glasses designed by Culver ltd.
Vintage Culver Set of Six Rock Glasses Frosted Gold and Black Regency Pattern
They will create a dramatic display for a back bar or table setting.
Midcentury low ball cocktail glasses frosted glass decorated with 24 K gold leaf and black.
Size: 4" tall,
3 1/4" mouth opening diameter.
Signed in gold "Culver Ltd "on each glass.
Description: Wide Frosted, Silver And Gold Bands
Pattern: Regency by Culver
Status: Discontinued.


Culver Glass Company – Lavish and Opulent Cocktail ware of the 1950s – 1960s
Culver Ltd was a glass company famous for their 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 1960’s. 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 silk screen. In the late 1950’s, Culver Ltd started the application of the 22-karat gold to their glassware. The super-heated, roll-on process of gold remains a secret today. By the 1980’s, Culver stopped making its own glass and began using glassware ‘blanks’ produced by other companies. less