12″ tall Metlox Little Red Riding Hood Cookie Jar sells for $1000 in September 2009. The jar has both the original Metlox Poppytrail sticker and incised mark on the base. Made in Poppytrail Calif. USA in the 1960s. (The book value is $1000 - $1800)
Wow! This is a rare one. The Fox Squirrel cookie jar is one of Nelson McCoy’s most coveted rare cookie jars. Why are these so rare? Apparently the tail was apt to fall down in the firing process. McCoy did produce a small number of Fox Squirrel cookie jars.Most are in shades of brown and green and a few are white with painted decorations. This jar sold for $7,777.77 in September 2009
The Hull Pottery Little Red Riding Hood Cookie Jars have different decals, I will post as many as I can find over time. Send me your pictures. The Cookie jars can range in price from $200 - $1200. There are fakes, and they are marked to deceive … so buyer beware! A few easy indications - the paint colors on fakes are too bright, and the painting tends to look sloppy. Also, fakes almost never have crazing - where the real cookie jars do have crazing. If you buy a cookie jar, ask the dealer for a guarantee that it’s “right”. If they won’t give you that guarantee, look elsewhere.
This is a later cookie jar, note the smaller basket:
This is a later cookie jar, note the smaller basket:
