Lustro Ware
What You Probably Didn't Know About Lustro Ware
In the summer of 1938, Gebhard Keny Sr. started his own company, Columbus Plastics Products, with just four employees and a pair of used molding presses.
Initially, the company made plastic components for other companies; but Keny eventually decided to develop, manufacture and market his own line of products. Columbus Plastics revolutionized the plastics molding industry with new, yet cost effective technology, which meant better, but less expensive household products. By 1946 the Columbus brand was producing a line called Lustro Ware. With it's own design staff, and a keen focus on the development of new products, sales of their colorful thermoplastic housewares soared.
When the company was sold 28 years later it employed 800 people and had more than 300 items in its product line!
Keny probably never guessed that Lustro Ware would become one of the most sought after collectibles in the retro market today.
Ever wonder what Lustro Ware sold for in 1952?
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 Vintage Retro Vanity Bathroom Decor Green Lustro Ware Tissue Kleenex Box Cover  US $14.99
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 Lustro Ware Recipe Box With Recipe Cards Plastic US $45.00
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 Lustro Ware Recipe Box With Recipe Cards Betty Crocker Booklet Plastic US $66.00
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 1950s LUSTRO WARE Salmon Colored PLASTIC CUP MUG US $2.00
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 VINTAGE Lustro Ware Nesting Canister Set 40s 50s Retro US $33.00
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 Vintage 1960s Lustro Ware Lustroware Plastic Scour Pad Tray White Carded NOS US $7.99
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 Vintage1950s 1960s Lustro Ware Lustroware Plastic Cup and Saucer White NOS US $9.99
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 Vintage 1950s 60s Lustro Ware Towel Holder Plastic White USA NOS US $10.99
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 PLASTIC ATOMIC RETRO LUSTRO WARE LUSTROWARE COOKIE JAR CANISTER PERFECT US $29.95
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 Vintage LUSTRO WARE New Old Stock SET of Scoops Retro COOL US $24.00
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