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List of Cookie Jars Made by J.D. James

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List of Cookie Jars Made by J.D. James Pottery by J.D.
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Shown is a list of jars that have been made by J.D. and Pat James, including the reproductions that were made.

There are still some jars available, when the James moved to Florida, they decided to do away with some of the molds. If you're interested in a jar, contact Pottery by J.D. for more information.

Licensed Cookie Jars

  • Nancy and Sluggo for United Feature Syndicate
    There were two versions of these jars, head jars of each character, as well as a full figured piece for each character, a total of four different jars.
  • Pepsi and Pete for PepsiCo.
    The two old time characters were made into full figured character jars.
  • Potato Head for Hasbro
  • Dick Tracy for Chicago Tribune
    Because of a disagreement about advertising, only a few of these jars were made.
Original Cookie Jars
  • Jackie-O
  • Mother's Love (Gorilla holding baby based on the news story of a female gorilla rescuing a baby)
  • Nutcracker
  • Jesus
Reproduction Jars:

American Bisque

  • Mohawk Indian
  • Sitting Horse
  • Little Audrey
  • Wilma on Telephone
  • Fred Flintstone Golfer
  • Rubles House
  • Dino
  • Casper
  • Popeye
  • Olive Oyl
  • Tuffy
  • Wimpy
  • Sweet Pea
Brush Reproduction Jars Gonder Lane
  • Sheriff
  • Indian
McCoy DeForrest Redwing
  • Chef
Regal Van Telligen Pearl China
  • Cookie
  • Mosaic Tile Mammy
Other jars include:
  • Uncle Mistletoe
  • Wellerby Dog
  • Jiggs
  • Mr. Googly Eyes
  • Paddington Bear
  • Standing Fred and Barney
  • Little Lulu
  • Cat in the Hat
  • Grinch
  • Shmoo
  • Pokemon - prototype submitted to the company, but they opted to look into getting the jar produced in China.
*J.D. relates a conversation he had with Don Winton "Don Winton told me he liked the Brush Cow the best of all of his cookie jars. I made him a blue cow and he liked it very much".

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