Customer Reviews

Collector's Encyclopedia of Cookie Jars, Book 1

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The Enyclopedia is well written in an easy to read and understand format.....Starting with the Intro and Hints to collectors, the authors relay their extensive knowledge to the reader...including their views on what to collect and how to collect in the world of cookie jars.....The full color photos of the jars are very helpful in identifying your next find when you go cookie jarrin' at the weekend flea market....In fact, I have all three books of the Collector's Encyclopedia of Cookie Jars.....I enjoy these books a great deal and they make great gifts for the collector in your family.

This book was not helpful at all. I have many older McCoy cookie jars and none of them were listed. This book mainly has new cookie jars listed. So if you are looking for a price guide for older jars this is not the book.

This book is very good for finding name brands, but it does not concentrate on a wide showing of each type. It is a helpful book for newer jars.

This is the 3rd edition of the popular book, featuring more than 1,800 large, sharp full color photos in its 360 pages. No repeats from the prior editions. There is not much in the way of background information, but loads of beautiful pictures, descriptions and prices. A complete index makes it easy to find the jars you're interested in. If you like to look at cookie jars, you'll love this picture encyclopedia.

Found this extremely helpful, especially the photographs. I was thankful for pricing guidance that the author also included. Information of the backgrounds of the manufacturers was interesting but a found a few that were too brief to nothing at all. When selling these jars it is always good to be able to pass on that type of information to the buyer. History was not covered in this book as this was the 3rd book covering the subject. I found this to be a very valuable reference tool to have available.

THIS BOOK WAS JUST OKAY BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAVE MANY OF THE JARS THAT I AM INTERESTED IN. THE BOOK SEEMED INCOMPLETE AS FAR AS DETAILS AND OR PICTURES OF MANY OF THE OLDER POTTERY JARS SUCH AS HULL RRH, REGAL CHINA,AMERICAN BISQUE AND SHAWNEE. IF YOU NEED INFO OR A VARIETY OF PICTURES OF THESE JARS, THIS IS NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU.

Wasn't as extensive as I would have hoped, I might have been expecting too much, and didn't contain alot of jars available on the market. But what it did contain was very good and I found very useful.