One of the hottest areas of collecting these days is of vintage barware and "cocktail". Old recipe books, shakers, stirrers, strainers, squeezers, ice buckets, ice crushers, napkins, carts, advertising, cork screws, cutting boards, knives, spoons, measuring devices, pitchers, swizzle sticks and of course fancy glasses are very desirable. If you read here regularly you know we have given overviews of several different mid-century barware manufacturers.
Today we have asked our friends at Classy Concoctions to tell you about the Culver Glass Company and share photos of some of their inventory.
Any glass can hold a drink. . . Classy Concoctions start a conversation.
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.
Today we have asked our friends at Classy Concoctions to tell you about the Culver Glass Company and share photos of some of their inventory.
Any glass can hold a drink. . . Classy Concoctions start a conversation.
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.