Beginning with the Laughlin Brothers' pottery endeavor in 1871, the Homer Laughlin China Company of Newell, West Virginia has made tens of thousands of china patterns. What the casual observer may not know, however, is that not all Homer Laughlin China bears the Homer Laughlin backstamp. Having made many lines for other companies and department stores, some of the Homer Laughlin China out there is literally marked for other companies.
I'm including here a list of just some of the backstamps that were really Homer Laughlin in disguise. This is meant to be a cursory list and a starting point for you when looking for Homer Laughlin china. I would recommend highly another resource, Homer Laughlin: Decades of Dinnerware by Bob Page, Dale Frederiksen, and Dean Six, for a more exhaustive and in-depth look at the Homer Laughlin China Company.
This is not a complete list, not in any way. I would suggest using other identification guides on American Pottery & China for more information on Homer Laughlin backstamps. Also, the lines below include only those which did not incorporate the names Homer Laughlin, Laughlin, or the variations of the Laughlin logo, including the letters HLC.
Here then, are just some of the names on the backstamps for Homer in Disguise.
- Add-A-Place
- Art Wells Glazes
- Buttercup
- Chateau Buffet
- Coventry Castilian
- Craftsman Dinnerware
- Cunningham & Pickett Dixie Rose
- Decorated With DuPont Metallic Gold and Ceramic Colors
- Elaine (Sears Roebuck, & Company)
- Epicure (sometimes appears with the name Homer Laughlin, sometimes without)
- Fortune
- Georgian Dinnerware
- Golden Rule
- Golden Wheat
- Guaranteed OvenServe
- Harvest
- Harvest Gold
- Hercules Hotel China
- Hotel
- Household Institute - Priscilla (sometimes with the word "Pattern" & sometimes with the word "Ovenware")
- Interstate Sunrise Ware
- Jubilee
- Kenmark China
- King Quality
- Kingsway, Alliance, Ohio
- Kitchen Kraft Ovenserve
- Majestic
- Modern Star
- Moss Rose
- Nosegay (Sears Roebuck and Co.)
- Old Roman
- Original Mansfield Dinnerware
- OvenServe
- Pasadena
- The Pearl China Company (sometimes simply Pearl China)
- Queen Esther
- Ravenna
- Rose Medallion
- Royal Crown Dinnerware
- Royal Harvest
- Royal OvenServe
- Scandia by Sheffield
- Select Semi-Vitreous
- Shakespeare Country
- Sheffield Bone White
- Sheffield Imperial Blue Dresden
- Sheffield Provincial
- Sheffield Seville
- Sheffield Sierra Ironstone Dinnerware
- Sunrise Brand
- Tea Rose
- Town House (sometimes Semi-Vitreous China, sometimes Ironstone)
- Trellis
- Wells (with Peaccock)
- Wells Clair de Lune
- Wells Newell (with bridge)
- Wells Warranted
- White Dover Ironstone
- White Granite
- Wild Rose
- Zylco Fine Dinnerware


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