Cookie Jar or Gold Mine?
Antique cookie jars made in the 1940s and 1950s are making their owners some serious dough – pun intended – these days. Reyne Hirsch, the PBS Antique Roadshow evaluator, said that a cookie jar from the 1950s sold for $1,200 in 2018, according to Uncle Mistletoe Marshall Fields. And to top it off, some of those cookie jars are really quite ugly! But then again, beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
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Not only are these highly sought-after cookie jars selling for thousands, but their prices could also go up more if they’re in the shape of a famous cartoon character. In 2019, a Little Audrey-shaped cookie jar sold for a whopping $3,400 on eBay! We sure wish we hadn’t given away all our old jars.