The Couroc Company was a Monterey California company that produced many different types and shapes of trays, boxes, ashtrays and glassware from 1948 until their closure in the early 1990s. Their products have...
Couroc is tough to photograph. A photo can make a nice tray look bad or a bad tray look nice. It is hard to tell from a picture. Having seen hundreds of Couroc trays in person, I have learned what to watch out...
Packing Couroc trays is important. Broken trays can be prevented. Nearly all Couroc products are made of a proprietary formula of Phenolic Resin. There are exceptions; glasses (obviously) and very old...
Couroc of Monterey made a good number of boxes as well as their better known trays. Often, the labels washed off and there was no "signature" molded into the bottom like on the trays - except the largest,...
This fabulous cobalt blue glass tray was given as a representative’s award for selling Avon‘s Moonwind cologne successfully. It came out in campaign 19 in 1971. For Moonwind Perfume. Stock Code #0586. ...
Make Your Metal/Tin Tole Tray Look Its Best!! I spoke with a couple of antique tole tray collectors about how they keep there trays looking fabulous, along with my own methods. This is specifically for metal...
We offer this interesting and helpful guide on the history of tole to help you better understand this popular decorative art form. The word tole is half of the French term Tole peinte du lac, meaning...
Without rubbing very hard apply mayonaise to soft cloth and use lightly on surface... You will be amazed how this cleans up old metal and does not harm surface... Try it!!!
I HAVE OVAL TRAY WITH HANDLES AND FEET WITH THE MARKINGS OF A CREST WITH LIONS AND THE LETTER C ON ONE SIDE OF CREST. AND ON OTHER SIDE OF CREST THE LETTER S OVERLAPPING THE LETTER L.