Revere Ware
The line focuses primarily on consumer cookware such as (but not limited to) skillets, sauce pans, stock pots, and tea kettles.
Initially Revere Ware was the culmination of various innovative techniques developed during the 1930s, the most popular being construction of stainless steel with rivetlessly attached bakelite handles, copper-clad bases and rounded interiors for ease of cleaning.
Over the next 40+ years, Revere Ware would introduce new series to position itself in competition with other manufacturers at various price points, or for specific specialty markets.
[2] While the cookware division remained profitable, the seventies saw parent company Revere Brass & Copper Corp. experience a shift of fortune.
[3] By 1982 financial issues due to these failing aluminum operations forced Revere Brass & Copper to file for bankruptcy.
During this period Revere Ware suffered from branding incoherency, with nearly a dozen new "lines" introduced by 2006 before briefly leaving the market.
Revere Ware has since been reintroduced, as World Kitchen currently (as of 2016) offers select variations: Copper-cored stainless steel, traditional copper-clad bottomed cookware and anodized non-stick aluminum.
Full Sail IP Partners intended to revive the Revere Ware brand, expanding it to products such as dinnerware and kitchen gadgets.
The main series has always been the 1400 line, featuring the classic curved, smooth knurled bakelite handles, stainless steel walls and copper bottoms.
In 1959, in response to leveling sales, the Designers' Group series was introduced, intended to reestablish Revere Ware as the premiere consumer cookware.
The newly developed 2000 line, for use on the then-new 1980s technology of ceramic- and glass-top stoves, featured heavy aluminum bottoms for good heat transfer.
The first series developed and introduced after the Corning Glass inc acquisition was the Proline, a heavy gauge stainless steel product that went through many arbitrary, minor changes during its run.
[8] The 1400 line is manufactured with all of Revere Ware's defining features: copper-clad bases, rounded corners for ease of cleaning, bakelite handles, and Vapor Seal lids.
Dutch ovens are similarly constructed, but feature a flared edge at the top of the pot with a narrow seat for their larger, more pronouncedly domed lid to seal.
The last variety (marked (3) below) is also ribbed, but features two small handles (much like stock pots) on either side, to facilitate ease of use.
It was the "Gold Standard" of American cookware, at its peak offering 39 items simultaneously (counting lids as separate pieces) across 12 distinct utensil types.
While specialty items and minor revisions were occasionally made to the line, the 1400 series existed with a relative consistency before the sale to Corning Glass Inc. in 1985.
Measurements taken from the exterior of the walls often include the extra material of the rolled lip, giving the illusion of an additional quarter inch of width.
The marked skillet dimensions refer to interior circumference at the top most part of the flared walls, as the pans are designed to use a lid that coincides with this diameter.
Featuring far thicker copper cladding and steel walls, items produced prior to 1968 are the pieces most collectors seek.
Below this, in stark lettering, was printed REVERE WARE, with an identifying marker for the size of the utensil (a new feature) and the location of manufacture.
