California Originals has been an important part of my cookie jar collecting. The Cookie Monster is the jar I credit with starting my collection. It was a wedding present in 1979 and it made me start looking at jars in a different light. Then a few years later when I decided to get serious, I asked a dealer what would be a good choice to start a collection. He talked me into the gumball jar. (I should have realized never to take advice of someone selling cookie jars displayed on the hood of his car.) Then a few years later my first ever eBay purchase was the Count Dracula in 1996. All three firsts were California Originals.
A sampling of California Originals cookie jars. Although the company was best known for their brown jars, their other finishes included a flat matte look/glaze, a few had traditional glazed finish and most of the jars had some sort of cold-painted accents with the exception of the single color antique-glazed pieces.
Sears Roebuck from the 1970s offered the licensed jars in their catalogs, including the ever popular Sesame Street jars. The prices shown are a bit surprising for the time and maybe a little expensive for the average family budget.
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| One interesting example of the a different finish is Tigger with a traditional glazed look, but the yellow “jar” he is holding is cold-painted. It can be hard to find Tigger with the yellow paint intact.
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