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

We are pleased to announce that we now offer character Disney Merchandise from Disney Marketplace Store
This extends the number of Mickey Mouse and other Disney Character items for you to see.
Just click on the small pictures on that page to see full details of each item.

What a Lovable Minnie Mouse Plush DollShe makes you want to cuddle her all the time !

You can see more about Minnie at  Amazon .

Mickey Mouse Radio

In 1938 Walt did the voice for Mickey Mouse for the first 4 episodes of The Mickey Mouse Theater of The Air
It was originally a musical variety series for Children.
Sponsorship came from Pepsodent and the program was broadcast from the Disney Little Theater on the RKO lot.

Music was provided by the Felix Mills Orchestra,The Donald Duck Swing Band and The Minnie Mouse Woodland Choir.
It was a Sunday afternoon program.The program promoted the release of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and other Disney movies.

After the War Walt grew the Disney business using Radio, Movies and eventually televison as part of a comprehensive plan
to widen the acceptance of Disney entertainment.

The Walt Disney Family Museum will open in the Fall of 2009 and it is located in The Presidio of
San Francisco, part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
It is renovating and upgrading three existing buildings on the Presidios Main Post.
The principal building, at 104 Montgomery Street, faces the Parade Ground.

There is a series of dvds called Walt Disneys Treasures which has some radio broadcasts of the tim (but is mostly movies).
These include a Tour of the Disney Studio: This is a rare half-hour radio broadcast from Australia in 1946,
in which studio personnel Homer Brightman, Harry Reeves, Eric Larson and Walt himself offer general
information on the making of the animated films at the time.
So Mickey has been popular through the bulky radios of the thirties and Forties to the valve radios of the Fifties
(I remember my father building me on of the first Transistor radios - I was so Thrilled !)
Disney soon brought out their own range of vintage Mickey Mouse Radios and collectors even today love them

Vintage Mickey Mouse Collectables

The word VINTAGE when used for Mickey Mouse Collectables is normally for Mickey Mouse Collectors items and costumes (yes people DO collect older Mickey Mouse Costumes ) made or sold before 1968
To easily identify Vintage Mickey Mouse collectables you really do have to do some research on the various models of Mickey throughout the years.
The earliest Mickey was Steamboat Willie where Mickey is crew on a steamboat.
This shows Mickey with a rather pointed face and smaller eyes.
He usually wears short red pants and white gloves.
Minnie has changed quite a lot over the years
(but they have been very kind to her..)
To see vintage Mickey for yourself please look at our early videos on this website or on Youtube.
You can see that Mickey appears as a Cowboy,Bandleader or Aviator.
Toys (especially Tinplate Toys) of any of these models of Mickey are quite rare and collectable.If you find one DO NOT try to renovate or repaint it as collectors like them in original condition (that includes a bit of rust !)
Several companies now make replicas of Vintage Mickey Mouse Toys and costumes.
If you are buying at an auction or off a website please ensure the word AUTHENTIC is included in the description.
Not all Disney Collectables appear at the same time.
People find them in Attics,Fleamarkets and yard sales and the first place they try to sell them is on eBay.
That is why we have ebay listings on this site.

One of the VERY popular Mickey Mouse Collectables is Mickey as The Sorcerors Apprentice. That Mickey Pointed Hat is one of Disneys Best Sellers even today at Disneylands Worldwide !
There is even now a version of the Hat that lights up at night with stars.
You may have to keep checking our site (would you go anywhere else ?)
to find the exact Disney Collectable you need.
If you are having problems finding specific Mickey Mouse Vintage collectables
then why not mention it in the comments at the bottom of this page.
We wish you great fun searching for Vintage Mickey Mouse Collectables.

The Best Place to start Looking for Vintage Mickey is FIND Vintage Mickey Here

Disney Savings Banks

Walt Disney produced many savings banks for children.
These were mainly based on Disneys cartoon characters.
Mickey and Minnie of course were the big sellers .
Other known character banks include:
101 Dalmatians
Buzz Lightyear
Disney Castles
Cinderella
Country Bear
Disneyland Paris
Donald Duck
Dopey
Eeyore
Flounder Bank
Lady and Tramp
Mickeys Car
Mrs Pots
Original Princess
Pinocchio
Pluto
Pocohontas
Princess Belle
Princess Jasmine
Rocket Banks
Simba
Sleepy
Snow WHite and 7 Dwarfs
Stitch
Tigger
Tinkerbell
Winnie the Pooh
Uncle Scrooge
Zurg
The early metal Banks are the ones to look for (especially those with a combination lock) Cast Iron and Tinplate banks are also popular with collectors
but later banks are known in Glass,Plastic and Ceramic
There are also Disney Banks with Gumball machines,moveable arm models,
alarm clock models and other imported models.
Banks were of course originally designed to encourage Children to save regularly
and very early ones had to be broken to get to the savings.
A novel idea was the automatic savings banks which were usually made of cast iron and the simple action of placing a coin the the mouth or hand of the character triggered a mechanism which moved an arm or other part of the character and deposited the coin inside the savings bank.

Disney Collectables - Magazines

Very early Mickey Mouse magazines are in great demand.
Mickey Mouse Magazine is the favourite which was first published in 1933 and went into several versions but was not sold at newstands until 1933.
The magazine continued until 1940 when it was published as Walt Disneys Comics and Stories comic book.
The series of magazines has always been very popular with Mickey Fans and Collectors

Disney Collectables - DisneyClubhouse collection

The Disney Clubhuse is a TV programme designed to have fun while learning for very young children.
Here is a sample :

The main character is of course Mickey himself and he manages to solve lots of problems with his able assistants.
(oh and the Magic Words too - Meeska,Mooska, Mickey Mouse !)

There are all kind s of merchandise associated with Mickeys Clubhouse -
these include :
A clubhouse for kids to play in,
Lots of Toys
A Sound Book,
A Clubhouse go-kart
clubhouse games for the Nintendo DS
Bedding and other furnishings
Videos, Dvds
Baking Cups and Cookie cutters
Party Supplies
and lots of books !

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Fashion Jewelry that is !
For the past 30 Years Jewellers have been designing Mickey Mouse Fashion Jewelry with pieces from simple things you might see in a local shopping mall right up to diamond encrusted gold pieces for really wonderful partis and social events.

Mickey is of course instantly recognisable to everyone and the reaction is usually HOW CUTE !
I have seen Mickey adorning bracelets and watches, rings and erarrings and even snuggling down on a few places as a pendant. (Shhh - dont tell Minnie !)
Seriously though I thought you would like to see a few examples - just for fun!

Heres Mickey ! :

And he even talked his way in Here :

These truly stunningly beautiful Capodimonte figures are seriously destined to become heirlooms for your grandchildren.
We have a small but lovely selection of these gorgeously crafted pieces created by master Sculptor Enzo Arzenton available.

All our available Capodimonte Disney Pieces are HERE

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The transistor radios definitely give your home that great Retro Feel.

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