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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