Milk jug/creamer
Silver plated milk jug/creamer. Manufacturer mark states Manufactured and plated by Simpson Hall Miller & Co, USA. Jug has a wide spout, one decorative handle, beaded decoration around lip, and 4 filgree mounted legs.
Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co. was a cutlery and silver hollowware manufacturer in Wallingford, Connecticut, founded in 1866. By c. 1895, the company operated large factories in Wallingford and Montreal, Canada. The firm was organized by Samuel Simpson in 1866. In 1878 Simpson made an agreement with William Rogers Jr to supervise the manufacture and marketing of Simpson, Hall, Miller & Co Rogers “Eagle” brand.
The “Eagle” was a brief duration business (1862 – c. 1865) managed by William Henry Rogers (often identified as William Rogers Jr, he died in 1896) after the retirement of his father in 1861. In 1872, when the William Rogers Manufacturing Co was incorporated, the Rogers were no longer associated to the firm and in the 1880s the firm had a bitter controversy with William Rogers Jr. about the right to use William Rogers name.