Collector Cookie Jars

Robinson Ransbottom (AKA RRPCO) “Bud” WW2 Collector Cookie Jar. No chips, no cracks. This jar is dated on the underside 1943. Most of these jars are not dated but this one is! This is now not just a cookie jar but is also recognized as a WW2 collectable [jar]. Robinson Ransbottom made a few different styles of these jars to reflect the different divisions of our war service men. “Bud” is Army and has a couple of minor issues to report, all of which I believe were somehow related to manufacture flaws. First, he has an area on his left shoulder (right in the photo) where there’s a darkened area on the outside of the jar on his shoulder showing through from the inside. When you look at the inside, you can see what appears to be some paint that I believe was a manufacturer flaw during the make process. This is a very interesting, historical quirk helping to make this already unique jar even more unique. There are some irregular spots along the base rim that are most definitely from the manufacture process when they “trimmed” the pottery after coming out of the mold. Some of those trimmings are seen adhering to the inside bottom of the jar since they were fired in place stuck by the glaze. Besides the manufacture spots, there are a couple of spots where the paint is thinned from age and use but not badly. All this is visible in the photos and in spite of them, he is still a very nice jar. He’s in otherwise remarkable condition for the age and being a cold-painted jar. A very solid jar great for display in anyone’s collection. Since this is a cold-painted jar, we highly recommend purchasing one of our hand-made soft cloths listed under the “HANDCRAFTED TEXTILES AND POTTERY LINK NEAR THE TOP OF THE HOME PAGE. They’re only $6.99 and crafted entirely by hand. These are soft cloths that will not scratch the surfaces esp for the cold painted jars. If purchased with a jar, there will be no additional shipping fees. If you are so charged for shipping this will be refunded to you if you have purchased one with one of our jars. There is a photo available of an example of these great cleaning cloths at that link mentioned within the site. Please click on the thumbnails to enjoy the view of larger photos of this fine jar, or, the title of the jar to enlarge the photos & print, then, click “add to cart”!
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RRPCO: Jardiniere set C 1930′s. Set consists of four graduated sizes of “nesting”   jardinieres. One jardiniere has a small chip at the base, its the second one in on the left. I’ve put a pointing arrow to the spot in the photo. One is signed with the appropriate RRPCO signature. This is one reason why when these sets are often split up, particularly during an auction at the auctioneer’s discretion, that we lose out on knowing who made these pieces. Quite frequently, the manufacturer would only mark one piece since they were always sold as a set. Tiffany quite frequently conducted this practice with the shades on their lamps that had cluster lights. Only one shade was signed so that if the rest “got away” from the “nest” no one could truly identify them as being Tiffany shades other than they could say they were “Tiffany look-a-likes”.

All the other pots are in perfect, damage-free condition. Nice color. This is a heavy set. Each individual “pot” is quite heavy and well-made in its own right. This is a nice find to have all four jardinieres together as they were intended to be.  Please click on the thumbnail to enlarge the photo for better detail.

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Robinson Ransbottom AKA RRPCO: Peter Pumpkin Eater Cookie jar. No big issues, just a small paint “rub” on the end of his nose. No chips or cracks. Nice jar, interesting rendition of Peter Pumpkin Eater.  Paint rub does not show in the photos and is not highly noticed at all. Click on thumbnail to increase photo size for better detail.

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