EARLY KELLEMS PASADENA BEAR EATING HONEY COOKIE JAR - RARE
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