Amazon.com description: Product Description: This handy 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. You will want to bring this useful reference along on buying trips so you'll have the most up-to-date information and values of all the Homer Laughlin dinnerware. Their ever-popular Fiesta, Harlequin, and Historical American Subjects are just three of more than 160 different entries covered here. The book has an A to Z listing of the dinnerware with 820 photographs, and useful sections on the dimensions, marking system, and history of the company. This is the best and most comprehensive identification book of Homer Laughlin shapes and patterns ever made available to the public. Collectors and dealers alike will rely on this book for years to come.