McCoy Pine cone tea set

McCoy has a long and interesting history. I will give you just a brief explanation of them. There have been 4 generations of the McCoy family involved in several different manufacturing companies.

In 1848 W. Nelson McCoy & W.F. McCoy started a pottery business in Zanesville, OH making stoneware crocks and jars.

In 1899 J.W. Mccoy organized the J.W. McCoy pottery company in Roseville, OH (near Zanesville). He added several lines of art pottery. In 1909 George Brush became the General Manager for J.W. McCoy. In 1911 they merged with several small pottery companies and became the Brush-McCoy company. In 1925 the McCoy family sold their interest in the Brush-McCoy company and it became the Brush pottery company.

Iin 1910 Nelson McCoy, son of J.W. McCoy started the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware company in Roseville, OH. He had financial help from his father. They were in direct competition with Brush McCoy making stoneware. In 1933 Nelson McCoy reorganized to become the Nelson McCoy pottery company and began producing art pottery like his father, J.W. McCoy.

The piece pictured is the Pine Cone Tea set and was manufactured in 1946. The mark shown is one of many McCoy marks.