![]() ![]() ![]() Lori is the expert appraiser on Discovery channel’s “Auction Kings.” Visit or call 888 431-1010. Lori presents appraisal events to audiences worldwide.ĭr. ![]() antiques appraiser, author, and award-winning TV personality, Dr. Today, collectors remain committed to the cookie jar category and amass large numbers of jars from Maine to California. The Warhol auction attracted new collectors to amass American cookie jars. Warhol’s collection of hundreds of vintage cookie jars brought more than $250,000 at auction. His famous estate auction brought cookie jar collecting to the forefront and put the sweet collectibles on the map. Warhol was an enthusiastic collector of cookie jars and viewed them as important objects of American culture. In the late 1980s, after the death of pop artist Andy Warhol, the cookie jar market enjoyed a market spike. It makes perfect sense that nursery rhymes would be the featured theme for cookie jars, as the characters were recognizable to youngsters. Nursery rhyme characters were among the most common types of cookie jars, such as Mother Goose, Humpty Dumpty, the Little Old Woman who lived in a Shoe and Puss ‘n Boots. Some examples of the market for good quality cookie jars in good condition from the mid 1900s include a Brush Pottery company cookie jar in the shape of a cow resembling the famous Borden milk mascot, Elsie, from 1945 to 1950, is worth $500.Īdditionally, an Aunt Jemima cookie jar sold for $325 a Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery firm’s Oscar cookie jar brought $500 and the popular Little Red Riding Hood cookie jar by Hull commanded $1,500 recently. I have reviewed cookie jar collections all over the United States and most are assembled in large numbers, dating from the 1950s, with values for the collections reaching the $10,000 to $20,000 range. With cookie jars, as with cookies, it’s difficult to have just one. The variety of cookie jars and the opportunity to collect so many different examples may contribute to the fact that many collectors just can’t stop collecting these cherished objects from childhood. Over the decades, cookie jars featured popular characters and cultural icons such as Felix the Cat, Howdy Doody, Mickey Mouse, Snow White, World War II American G. The American baby boom sparked cookie jar production as Americans were having more babies and eating more cookies during the late 1940s and 1950s. ![]() Chips, cracks and scratches to the surface decoration are key factors when evaluating vintage cookie jars. The fact that these vintage collectibles were positioned in “the front lines” (a.k.a., on the kitchen countertop) of busy post-war American kitchens, makes their condition a vital trait when assessing their value on the collectibles market. The jar was for sale at the price of $7,500 through the Ohio Ceramic Center.Cookie jars were of good size in order to hold many cookies for America’s growing families in the years following World War II. The jar can be seen at the Ohio Ceramic Center in Roseville, Ohio. No marks are on the bottom of the jar and it has small "chiggers" on the lid and crazing all over the jar. No one knows how many of these jars exist. It was finally authenticated when a 1965 McCoy catalog surfaced. When the jar was found the maker was unknown but thought to be a real McCoy. Beem also worked at McCoy for many years. It so happens that the house was formerly lived in by people whose relatives worked at the McCoy Factory. How many times have you seen the word rare or hard-to-find on a description of a cookie jar? Too many sellers, rare means the manufacturer is sold out or perhaps the run was a limited edition of 5,000.īut the McCoy Carousel cookie jar is the definition of rare.ĭan Beem has owned this jar since 1977 - when it was discovered it in the basement of a house he bought. Courtesy of Jackie Weinstock/Ohio Ceramic Center ![]()
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