This book contains almost 4,000 Homer Laughlin dinnerware patterns in full color, plus hundreds of additional photographs, advertisements, pamphlets, and the history of The Homer Laughlin China Company and its dinnerware. Represented are dinnerware patterns from pre-1900 to current Fiesta? patterns and everything in between.

For over 140 years, the Homer Laughlin Company, of East Liverpool, Ohio, made popular ceramic plate shapes, each with different decorative treatments that are identified by numbers and date codes. This book shows, in 805 color photographs, 43 dinnerware shapes as well as kitchenware, specialty items, and backmarks. With this information, you can learn to identify each shape and treatment. Today, this dinnerware is valuable in antiques markets.

Presents a sweeping survey of colorful Fiesta Ware, the Homer Laughlin China Company's most popular dinnerware. Over 300 color photographs chronicle Fiesta's many forms, accompanied by a written history of the Homer Laughlin Company. This revised edition features new photographs and updated values.

The Homer Laughlin China Company produced more than 100 different shapes of dinnerware since 1873 and more than 10,000 decorations. How is one to identify all the variations? This book fully explains the 1940s and 1950s products. This was a very prolific time for the company, and the era of dishes that people are collecting today.

The proud history of one of America's most prolific and best known dinnerware manufacturers is presented with over 500 color photographs and new research from the company archives. This book gives the factual history of all the shapes, decorations, and variations that have been found. Current market value ranges are given in the captions.

Three of the most collectible lines of vintage dinnerware are thoroughly explored in this major work written by expert collectors. Colorful Fiesta, Harlequin, and Kitchen Kraft sets made since 1936 by The Homer Laughlin China Company are shown in 592 color photographs and detailed measured drawings along with extensive analysis of the shapes, marks, production methods, and decorations. Their enormous popularity, originally and now, has made these dinnerware lines familiar to four generations of Americans, and this reference will link them with collectors, dealers, and users long into the future.

This handy and comprehensive guide quickly identifies the shapes, decorations, and patterns of dinnerware made by the Homer Laughlin China Company of East Liverpool, Ohio, from 1874 to the present. Their ever-popular Fiesta, Harlequin, and Historical American Subjects are just three of more than 160 different entries covered here in the A to Z listing.