Creamer

The pattern on this pressed pitcher was called "silver age" by its maker and is known to collectors as "coin." The design, produced by the Central Glass Company at the time of its amalgamation in 1891 with Hobbs, Brockunier and Company into the United States Glass Company, may have been intended to commemorate the 1892 centennial anniversary of the United States Mint in Philadelphia. There is some suggestion that the reason that the pattern was short-lived was that the Federal government suppressed it for being in violation of the counterfeit laws. This explanation seems more plausible if we see in the original pattern name, "silver age," a favorable reference to the "free silver" question which was a vehemently contested issue in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.