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OhioRiverPottery.com -- An American Dinnerware Identification Web Site
The above images are from a 1950s Montgomery Wards catalog.
They're pieces from their open stock collection -- items which could be purchased to match sets of dinnerware.

How many shapes, patterns and makers can you name? Answers are given below.

“Open Stock” Answers given in the form: Maker-Shape-Treatment
Can you fill in the “unknowns?”
1. Southern Potteries(Blue Ridge) - Colonial - “Crab Apple”
2. Southern Potteries(Blue Ridge) - Plate* - “Crab Apple”
front: Blue Ridge “Crab Apple” small bowl*
3. Homer Laughlin - Georgian - “Cashmere”
front: Blue Ridge “Ridge Daisy” small bowl*
4. Homer Laughlin - Georgian - “Cashmere”
5. Santa Anita - Shape: unknown - “Del Mar”
6. Homer Laughlin - Swing - “Greek Key”
7. Vernon - San Marino - “Moiave”
8. & 9. Homer Laughlin - Georgian - “Cashmere” 		1. Southern Potteries(Blue Ridge) - Piecrust - “Green Briar”
2. Southern Potteries(Blue Ridge) - Piecrust - “Green Briar”
front: Blue Ridge “Green Briar”small bowl*
3. Southern Potteries(Blue Ridge) - Plate* - “Petal Point”
front: Blue Ridge “Petal Point” small bowl*
4. Southern Potteries(Blue Ridge) - Skyline - “Petal Point”
5. Southern Potteries(Blue Ridge) - Butter* - “Green Briar”
6. Southern Potteries(Blue Ridge) - Butter* - “Petal Point”
7. Knowles - Deanna - “Plaid”
8. Homer Laughlin - Georgian - “Chateau”
9. Maker: unknown - Shape: unknown - “Ivy”
10. Homer Laughlin - Georgian - “Rambler Rose”
11. Laurel Potteries - Holiday - “Cinnamon Brown” glaze
Items marked with (*) are generic or “pick-up” pieces which do not belong to any particular shape