EARLY KELLEMS PASADENA BEAR EATING HONEY COOKIE JAR - RARE

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I recently acquired this Cookie Jar and cannot find anything about it on the internet. It is marked underneath, but, hard to make out.

Join the club ! You have a rare and early cookie jar made by Kellems-Pasadena, a fairly obscure California Pottery that was in existence in the late 1940's into the mid-1950's. You will not find this jar in any of the 3 leading cookie jar books, nor the California Pottery Books.

 It is an attractive jar and appears to be well made. The 1953 copyright date makes this a fairly early jar. Cookie Jars were largely a post WWII phenomena. 

 At first glance, it reminds you of Winnie the Pooh, but, there are no copyright markings to justify that thought. Nonetheless, I would think this to be a desirable guy that should be worth a couple few hundred dollars to a cookie jar fanatic. Kellums made a specialized figural cookie jar based on a comic strip character around that same time and it brought over $400 at auction.

 We will keep an eye out for when this guy gets listed and report the selling price.

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