Set of 6 Culver Glass Icicle Highball Glasses accented with 22kt gold bands. 2- Vintage Culver Glass 22K Cannella Roly Poly Bar Glasses- Set of 5, Circa 1970. Tallest cup measures approx. 6"; total weight 9 lbs. PROVENANCE: A Charleston, South Carolina Private Estate. 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 1950s 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 aka 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

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