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Chrome Top? Not a Product of Corning Glass Works!
A Guide to Look-Alike Accessories
Popular products attract imitations. Beginning with Corning Ware's Blue Cornflower emblem, glassmakers unaffiliated with Corning Glass Works have produced numerous products decorated with look-alike designs. Corelle was another series of popular patterns that became the focus of imitations.
Examples of items from Dispensers Inc., Gemco Ware and Dominion Glass.
This group of manufacturers specialized in practical kitchen and dining accessories made of ordinary white opal glass with metal or plastic tops. They are not made of opal Pyrex. Corning Glass Works never made dispenser style items with a chrome screw top lid on white glass.
All of these items were made without the permission of the company and they are not licensed products. If they had been approved by Corning, then these companies would have been entitled to produce perfect and exact replicas of Corning's patterns. But this is not the case, and there is always some aspect of these products that is inconsistent with the original. These differences enable the manufacturers to maintain the pretense that the decorations are their own design rather than copies.
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 Gemco Ware
Gemco Ware Inc. operated as an independent company from 1948 to 2003. Gemco's products include glass food dispensers of all kinds as well as storage containers and handy kitchen aids. They have produced a wide variety of items decorated with versions of Corelle and Corning Ware patterns: Winter Frost White, Butterfly Gold, Snowflake Blue, Spring Blossom Green, Old Town Blue, Woodland Brown, Meadow, Indian Summer, Wildflower, Strawberry Sunday, Blue Cornflower, Spice O' Life, Floral Bouquet and Country Festival.
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 Gemco Tops and Bottoms
Certain Gemco Ware pieces use the same sized glass jar for different purposes, so it is the design of the top that dictates the function of the item. This is a guide to identifying the chrome tops and matching them to the appropriate glass bottoms.
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 Dispensers Inc.
A California-based company, Dispensers Inc. produced practical glass and chrome items like sugar shakers, cream/syrup pitchers and salt & pepper sets. Other brand names appearing on these products include 'Starline' and 'Dripcut'. The chrome lids for all these glass items are solid metal and very heavy.
Corelle patterns imitated by Dispensers Inc. include: Butterfly Gold, Snowflake Blue and Spring Blossom Green. It is relatively easy to see that these patterns are not authentic. Versions of Corning Ware's Blue Cornflower and Spice O' Life also were made.
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 Dominion Glass Company Ltd.
Dominion Glass was a major Canadian glassmaker with product lines ranging from bottles & jars to pressed tableware and art glass. They also produced practical kitchen and table accessories in opal glass and clear glass, and four notable decorations are look-alikes of Corning Ware patterns: Blue Cornflower, Spice O’ Life, Country Festival, Wildflower.
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