M-M-M-M GOOD,
THOSE WONDERFUL ADVERTISING JARS!!

By Sandi Phillips

They’re bright, cheerful in appearance and are poppin’ up everywhere! Advertising cookie jars are hot collectibles! Some of the companies have made so many in the last few years that you could start a mini collection of them! Pillsbury, Campbell’s, Coke, Nabisco, Keebler and Quaker Oats to name a few, keep producing jar after jar. Others are exclusive and often elusive.

Some folks make transatlantic phone calls to promote world peace, stop hunger and that sort of thing. My one and only transatlantic phone call should probably have been for those reasons. But no. I was calling Harrods’ Department Store in London to order their Green Doorman, made by Wade! In the picture below the Green Doorman is pictured on the far right.

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The picture above is in my kitchen. The jars add wonderful color and life to my “favorite” (gasp, wheeze, choke) work area! One of the jars shown is McCoy’s Barnum’s Animals made in 1972-73. It features a colorful decal on the jar and a clown head as the finial. Another older jar is the Pottery Guild Elsie, how thrilled I was to be able to add these jars to my collection!

Individual artists make some of my favorite advertising jars. Pictured below are five advertising jars made for or produced by ACJA members. We have some very talented members in our organization!

L to R: The wonderful Cracker Jack jar produced by Happy Memories Collectibles, the Keith jar made for Keith Lytle of Cookie Jar Antiques, Dolly, Big Boy’s girl friend, made by Kathy Wolfe and the adorable Pepsi Cops made by J.D. James. These jars are still available for purchase.

For information contact:

    Bill Hamburg, Cracker Jack jar:
    Keith Lytle, the Keith jar:
    Kathy Wolfe, Dolly:
    JD James, the Pepsi Cops:

Christmas advertising jars are scarce, above are four examples. L to R: Matco Tool Santa, McDonald’s Grimace, American Radio Flyer Santa and the Coca-Cola Santa Bear.

A hodge-podge of jars are pictured---->>

Top shelf, features two of the wonderful IGA Circus Wagon jars, with the Braum’s Ice Cream Cow in the middle. Bottom shelf features Campbell’s Soup, Aunt Jemima Syrup, Wade’s Tetley Tea Brew Gaffer, Harley Davidson’s Oil Can and the Red M&M jar. Below: Milk Bone and Shedds’s cookie crock.

It’s a Snap, Crackle, Pop ending as this last picture shows off some of last years jar! (Only the Coca-Cola jar didn’t come out last year.) Next to it is one of my last years favorite new jars, the Dairy Queen Sundae. Kellogg’s Rice Krispies jar was filled with what else, but Rice Krispies Treats! I loved the red, white and blue motif on the Pillsbury jar. The Campbell’s jar, although small, has gold trim; it was sold only at florist shops. Doesn’t it look m-m-m-m good? Flavor up your collection with some tasty looking advertising jars! :)