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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 whe...

Can you please give me the value of this Antique Ansonia Mantle Clock? Your late 19th c Cast Iron Ansonia Mantle clock would sell for around $120-160 at live auction. This is based on 3 examples of the same clock that have sold since 2008. These heavy cast clocks have stayed fairly firm in value for 20 years and they will probably remain in that range in the foreseeable future.