Cookie Jar Guide

Remember Your Grandma and those delicious Cookies she used to make?

And how sweet she was pretending not to notice when you took two instead of one !

Even now just the sight of a cookie jar makes my mouth water. I can still taste her cookies and smell that delicious smell drifting from the Kitchen.

Many cookie jar collectors would be so jealous of those antique cookie jars she kept the treats inside.

Cookie Jars of course originated in England and were originally used to store and keep crisp the spiced and honeyed biscuits from earlier times.

In the 20^th Century Cookie Jars really became a craze to collect – especially when Walt Disney began promoting Mickey Mouse and the combination of cookies and Mickey Mouse became quite irresistible to a whole generation of American and worldwide children.

Those early Mickey and Minnie jars are still avidly snapped up by cookie jar collectors (and I suspect still used to store cookies for new generations of kids.)

The most valuable Cookie jars for collectors are ones featuring early movie characters.

Cartoon characters like Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Clarabelle, Betty Boop, Donald Duck and the whole panoply of Disney favourites and other popular characters like Felix the Cat are very collectable and  have all graced the Jars as have many famous early movie stars and more recently film stars and entertainers like Elvis Presley, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe.

A whole fleet of Superheroes fiercely face unknown daners from the front of Grannies Cupboard  including Superman, Batman and right up to date heroes are still being collected.

These are some of the cookie jars worth looking out for:

Jars from  Dsney

All major characters

Quaker Oats

Aunt Jemima

Vandor Beatles  or Elvis Jars

Uncle Sam jars

Nightmare before Christmas is a modern favourite

Nursery Rhyme and fairy tale cookie jars make a lovely display

Disney Princess Jars are really popular

Modern Film Heroes like Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean are collectable but many have been sold.

Some major collections have been sold at auction – Andy Warhols collection sold for $250,000 and he bought at regular stores ,flea markets and yard sales.(that must have been  quite a sight - Andy Warhol with an armful of Disney Princesses !)- actually . I wonder if he signed any of them ?

Here are some average recent Cookie Jar auction Prices :

Mickey Mouse Fireman  $25

Minnie Mouse $ 35

Donald Duck $20

Pluto Dining $150

Snow White $38

Lady and the Tramp $60

Haunted Mansion $90

Coca Cola $9

John Wayne  $55

Snoopy $32

Dr Seuss Cat $35

Tazmanian Devil $15

Vintage Old King Cole  $325

Vintage Pig $50

Shawnee Smiley Pig $15

Puppy Hound Dog  $10

McCoy Mammy Jar $52

Vintage Kraft Bear $20

King Frog $30

Starwars R2D2 $100

Cat Treats $4

 

 

Auction prices are usually higher than prices in fleamarkets,yard sales , car boot sales.

Vintage Cookie Jars are nearly always more expensive

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Most Popular sections for collectors are :

Disney

Cats

Pigs

McCoy brand

Vintage Jars

Shawnee Jars