The Complete Cookie Jar Book

by Mike Schneider

Book Overview

As American in origin as the totem pole, the cookie jar was born in the 1920s, grew up in the 1940s, and became highly collectible in the 1980s. Relying on more than 2,000 color photographs, Mike Schneider presents a visual and textual history of this unique kitchen art form in the largest and most thoroughly detailed work ever published on cookie jars. In addition to American pottery cookie jars, imported jars are covered, along with jars made of other media, such as glass and plastic. The only book to record the heights of jars, and to offer photographic images of marks, this classic volume serves as the collector's most complete and indispensable identification reference, and newly updated values are a tremendous help in today's market.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887403360
• ISBN13: 9780887403361
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 14 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 12.3"