Antique Simpson, Hall, Miller, & CO. Treble Plate Covered Butter Dish With Cow Finial

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This was one of my Flea Market finds on Saturday 8/4/2018 It's a Covered Butter Dish made by Simpson, Hall, Miller, & Company in the 1880s. The Dish is marked on the bottom with an applied button that reads in the round SIMPSON,HALL,MILLER & CO. with TREBLE over PLATE in the center. It has a Cow as a finial, and a handle on each side, with two hooks for a butter knife on the front, it's missing the inside butter drip tray, and knife. I added two different butter knives to show. The neat thing about this dish to me is the engraved names on the lid, it reads in script "Nettie FROM Daisy", that dates it to the 1890s or before, I'd say, anyway! :^D The inside that was protected from the air, polished easy, but the outside, stays dull, like it was made that way, so it's not that slippery, because of the butter.

Here's what Wikipedia had about Simpson Hall Miller & Company, that joined International Silver, in 1898:
Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co.
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Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co.
Wallingford works in 1879
Fate
In 1898 became part of the International Silver Company; continued operating with the Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. brand[1]
Founded
1866[1]
Headquarters
Wallingford, Connecticut, United States
Area served
Predominately the United States but also internationally
Key people
Samuel Simpson
Products
cutlery, hollowware
Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. was a cutlery and silver hollowware manufacturer in Wallingford, Connecticut, founded in 1866.[1] By c. 1895, the company operated large factories in Wallingford and Montreal, Canada.[2]
In 1898, Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. became part of the International Silver Company headquartered in neighboring Meriden.[3]
Many designs have been collected by many American museums including the Dallas Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Yale University Art Gallery.[4] In 2005-07, Modernist silver designs by Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. were featured in a traveling museum exhibition (Dallas, Washington, Miami Beach, Reno and Memphis).[1]
The designs have been exhibited since the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition.[4] In 1880-81, Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. was awarded the First Prize Medal competing with 44 other silver manufacturers from the United States and Europe at the Melbourne International Exhibition in Australia.[5]
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a b c d Stern, Jewel. (2005). Modernism in American silver, p. 355. Dallas Museum of Art and Yale University Press.
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^ Hall, Henry. (1895). "Samuel Simpson". In America's successful men of affairs (vol. II), pp. 710-11. The New York Tribune. Retrieved October 22, 2016
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^ (Undated). "A Guide to the International Silver Company Records, 1853-1921". UCONN university libraries, special collections. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
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a b (March 16, 2016). "Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. designs in collections, at auction, and in exhibitions". artdesigncafe.com. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
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^ Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. (1881). Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co., manufacturers of the finest quality electro silver plated hollowware: in great variety (trade catalogue), p. 4. Retrieved October 22, 2016.
Categories: 1866 establishments in ConnecticutCompanies based in New Haven County, ConnecticutDefunct manufacturing companies of the United StatesWallingford, Connecticut

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