The limited number of American pottery companies could not compete with the flood of cheap Japanese pottery reamers pouring into the dime stores and variety stores, and eventually they stopped their production of reamers. Also, in the 1930's, the electric juicers became popular, taking a bite out of the glass and ceramic reamer sales. By 1940, the introduction of frozen concentrate slowed the demand even more, making the reamer almost extinct. Not much has happened in the reamer manufacturing arena since 1940. Gone is the heyday of the wonderful reamer.
Shapes vary from round, square, oblong, triangular to figurals, such as clowns, animals and people.
There are one piece, two piece and three piece reamers. They come plain, fancy, engraved, embossed, frosted, handpainted and trimmed in gold and silver. There are advertising reamers, souvenir reamers and regular utility pieces. The number of once available reamers range to the thousands. Some of these are being reproducted in the original colors, causing devaluation of the original pieces and overpriced reproductions being sold.