George Rodd established his workshop in 1919 in Melbourne where his brother Ernest joined him as a working partner in 1922. They made watch alberts and bangles and began making trophies and medallions soon expanding into manufacturing a large range of cuff links, tie pins, brooches, bracelets lockets and crosses.  By the 1930's Rodds were the leading manufacturer of jewellery in Australia. Their jewellery was marked Apex, the name chosen to indicate a high quality top of the range product.

This gorgeous piece was made by them and is marked Apex to the inside back of the setting.

During the depression years the Rodd brothers pioneered the manufacture of cutlery. They produced them in sterling and EPNS. Production was scaled down during the 2nd world war and the company went into helping the war effort by producing machine tools and gauges.

After the end of WW2 they reintroduced jewellery, table wares and cutlery. In 1948 they became a public company, Rodd Australia Ltd, and all their wares were then marked Rodd.

 From 1950 they produced mainly table ware and cutlery. They merged with Myttons, the manufacturer of Grosvenor Cutlery in 1961 but the two were offered as separate brands until the manufacture of them was combined in the one place in 1981. This is why certain Grosvenor patterns were then re branded as Rodd, for example one of those was the Balmoral cutlery pattern.

This era was the hey day of cutlery production for the company and their sets and pieces are now highly sought. Even today settings are being purchased as wedding gifts due to the high quality and timeless designs. If you visit our Rodd pattern page you will see the wide range of patterns produced.

The Rodd era ended when they were taken over in the late 1980's by River Holdings.