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First if you have to collect or have a Little Red Riding hood piece then be ready to admit defeat on the originality of the piece. Designed by Louis Bauer in 1943
with patent assigned to A. E. Hull Pottery Co. the line was produced until 1957. There are many many different versions of what was produced and who produced what.
Without going back to the past we have to get past the clutter and look at the facts as we now know or believe as I have listed below:
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1. Designed by Louise Bauer was the cookie jar, the grease jar and the salt and pepper set with her patent which was assigned to Hull co.
2. Hull DID produce the cookie jars, the grease jar and a set of 5 1/2 inch size sitting salt and pepper shakers and other pieces but DID NOT decorate the pieces.
3. The pieces where sent out to Royal China and Novelty Co. (a division of Regal China) to be decorated.
4. Royal China and Novelty Co. (a division of Regal China) DID produce most of the pieces of the Little Red Riding Hood line including the cookie jar and others.
5. Royal china used a vitreous material (china) which doesn't craze and was pure white and the Hull pieces were off white being made from clay material.
6. Cookie jars, the Royal pieces were not glazed inside of the head piece and the Hull head pieces were glazed inside.
7. There were three different heads produced for the cookie jars each with a different angle.
8. If it has a McCoy signature then it is a fake. McCoy NEVER made a LRRH cookie jar or accessory.
9. If any of the pieces have a large amount of crazing then it is a probably a fake. Vitreous china does not craze under normal conditions.
10. There were open baskets and closed basket cookie jars.
11. The cookie jars were almost 13 inches high.
12. Original LRRH pieces had blue eyes.
13. Cookie jars came with different numbers of flowers on the front, from two to 4 flowers.
14. poinsettias, poppys and roses were the flowers used on the cookie jars.
15. The roses were pink and not the blood red used on the fake pieces.
16. The most common flower was the poppy which would be either with one, two or three flowers on the piece.
17. Although there are "closed baskets" and "open basket" jars, there doesn't seem to be much difference in value between the baskets
18. Reproduced: Little Red Riding Hood string holders, baby dish, butter dish, teapot, milk pitcher, batter pitcher, cracker jar, match box, mustard
jar and spoon and banks.
19. Fantasy (never produced by Hull or Regal): Sugar shaker and hat pin holder.
Now this list is not complete nor will it ever be finished as fakes
and reproductions are once again flooding the marketplace via china and
Mexico Nor would I say with absolute certainty this list is correct. |
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| Description |
Value |
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| Cookie Jar |
value range from 100 for single flower to 300-400 for four flowers.
Gold trimmed also brings a higher price. Marked with 967 bring a higher
premium. open basket |
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| Cookie Jar |
value range from 100 for single flower to 300-400 for four flowers.
Gold trimmed also brings a higher price. Marked with 967 bring a higher
premium. closed basket |
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| Advertising Plaque |
2500-4000 |
| Baby Feeding dish |
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| Baby or chocolate mug |
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| Wall bank |
250-325 |
no picture |
| Standing bank |
250-300 |
no picture |
| Butter dish |
200-250o |  |
| Cereal canister |
250-350 |  |
| allspice canister |
250-350 |  |
| coffee canister |
250-350 | no picture |
| Flour canister |
250-350 |  |
| popcorn canister |
250-350 | no picture |
| potato chip canister |
250-350 | no picture |
| pretzel canister |
250-350 | no picture |
| sugar canister |
250-350 | no picture |
| salt canister |
250-350 | no picture |
| tea canister |
250-350 |  |
| Covered casserole |
200-250 | no picture |
| Cracker jar |
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| Grease jar 982 |
250-350 | no picture |
| Lamp |
Original lamps range from 650 to 1000 depending on condition. |
no picture |
| Matchbox |
250-300 | no picture |
| 5 1/2 inch mustard jar |
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| Planter |
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| 9 inch wall pocket |
250-325 |  |
| 6 1/2 inch batter pitcher |
75-100 |  |
| 8 inch milk pitcher |
75-100 |  |
| 3 1/2 inch small salt and pepper |
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| 4 1/2 inch medium salt and pepper |
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| 5 inch salt and pepper |
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| 5 1/2 inch sitting salt and pepper. |
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| String holder |
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| Side pour sugar |
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| Side pour creamer |
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| Crawling sugar |
75-100 |  |
| Tab handle creamer |
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| Sugar with lid |
75-100 | no picture |
| Creamer with pantaloons |
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| Teapot |
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| Wolf Grease jar, yellow |
350-450 |  |
| Wolf Grease jar, red |
350-500 |  |
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