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.

1. Add-A-Place
2. Art Wells Glazes
3. Buttercup
4. Chateau Buffet
5. Coventry Castilian
6. Craftsman Dinnerware
7. Cunningham & Pickett Dixie Rose
8. Decorated With DuPont Metallic Gold and Ceramic Colors
9. Elaine (Sears Roebuck, & Company)
10. Epicure (sometimes appears with the name Homer Laughlin, sometimes without)
11. Fortune
12. Georgian Dinnerware
13. Golden Rule
14. Golden Wheat
15. Guaranteed OvenServe
16. Harvest
17. Harvest Gold
18. Hercules Hotel China
19. Hotel
20. Household Institute - Priscilla (sometimes with the word "Pattern" & sometimes with the word "Ovenware")
21. Interstate Sunrise Ware
22. Jubilee
23. Kenmark China
24. King Quality
25. Kingsway, Alliance, Ohio
26. Kitchen Kraft Ovenserve
27. Majestic
28. Modern Star
29. Moss Rose
30. Nosegay (Sears Roebuck and Co.)
31. Old Roman
32. Original Mansfield Dinnerware
33. OvenServe
34. Pasadena
35. The Pearl China Company (sometimes simply Pearl China)
36. Queen Esther
37. Ravenna
38. Rose Medallion
39. Royal Crown Dinnerware
40. Royal Harvest
41. Royal OvenServe
42. Scandia by Sheffield
43. Select Semi-Vitreous
44. Shakespeare Country
45. Sheffield Bone White
46. Sheffield Imperial Blue Dresden
47. Sheffield Provincial
48. Sheffield Seville
49. Sheffield Sierra Ironstone Dinnerware
50. Sunrise Brand
51. Tea Rose
52. Town House (sometimes Semi-Vitreous China, sometimes Ironstone)
53. Trellis
54. Wells (with Peaccock)
55. Wells Clair de Lune
56. Wells Newell (with bridge)
57. Wells Warranted
58. White Dover Ironstone
59. White Granite
60. Wild Rose
61. Zylco Fine Dinnerware