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Based on the images, this is a Central Glass Company "Coin Glass" bread tray, decorated with cast American 1892 coin impressions. The original "coin glass"was produced in 1892 by the Central Glass Company of Wheeling, West Virginia. The company was a manufacturer of glassware of a mainly inexpensive variety witha wide market in mind. The novelty of the coin glass product line was an attempt by the company to further broaden its sales countrywide.

A number of denominations were used in the coin glass line, mainly silver dollars and silver half dollars, but the dime, quarter, twenty cent piece, andthree cent pieces were also used. Items in this novelty glass line included cake stands, footed bowls, celery dishes, goblets, sauce dishes, bread trays, syruppitchers and pickle dishes. There are also spooners, jugs, footed sauces, and lamps.

Production was short for this product line. Only five months of actual production occurred before the Treasury Department declared that the process wasactually a form of counterfeiting and destroyed the molds. In the current market, your Central Glass Company bread tray would sell at auction in the $50.00-$80.00 range(USD). The example above from our Worthopedia sold for 76.01. The one below sold for $71.00.

To read the complete article, see:
FROM THE WORTHOLOGISTS' FILES: COIN GLASS(https://www.worthpoint.com/articles/glass/from-the-worthologists-files-coin-glass)

To read earlier E-Sylum articles, see:
A LIBERTY SEATED QUARTER COIN GLASS SAUCE DISH (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n10a17.html)
ANOTHER LIBERTY SEATED COIN GLASS SAUCE DISH (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n20a16.html)
BOOK: U.S. COIN & COLUMBIAN COIN PATTERN GLASS (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n21a04.html)
MORE ON COIN GLASS (https://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v16n22a15.html)