RARE Vintage Shawnee Pottery U.S.N. Sailor Boy GOB Cookie Jar 1942- 61 Gold Trim

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RARE Vintage Shawnee Pottery
U.S.N. Sailor Boy GOB Cookie Jar 1942- 1961
With Gold Trim - Part of Original Label on Front Left side.
No Reserve
You are bidding on a
Cookie Jar With Lid,
this is another piece of my collection.
Had this for several years now, It needs a new home. This adorable
Cookie Jar With Lid
would make a great addition to your vintage
Shawnee
collection.
Condition is Good. There are no flaws or chips in the glass. Some Crazing inside
bottom
of jar (See Photo #8)
Please see photos for detail or email us with questions.
This article is not talking about this one particular cookie jar but for the style “The Sailor Boy”. The following article is from the National Museum of American History and as you will read, this cookie jar is now at the Smithsonian.
By Angela Modany, April 24, 2012
Sometimes an ordinary object becomes important primarily for the story it has to tell. A ceramic cookie jar, for instance, may have been mass-produced during a specific point in American history, meaning that thousands of similar pieces were found in homes across the United States. But add in a crucial component—a family history set in World War II—and the object gains a historical depth beyond the details of how and where it was manufactured.
The cookie jar in this example is, of course, an actual object—a recent acquisition for the museum. Our ceramic jar features a young boy in a sailor uniform, complete with hand-painted blond hair, a gilded neckerchief, and the gilded abbreviation “G.O.B.” The Ohio-based Shawnee Pottery Company sent blank wares like this sailor to China for decoration; the “G.O.B” is a shortening of “gob-bid-dan,”
the Cantonese term for a sailor.
The cookie jar was given to young Georgine Miller Dell by her Parkchester, New York, Macy’s coworkers when her husband, Edward John Dell, shipped out with the U.S. Navy in 1943. Their daughter Laura, who donated the cookie jar to the National Museum of American History, explained, “I know that we never used the jar for cookies! It usually sat on the top of the fridge and was used to store newspaper clippings about the family.”
So a cookie jar begins the conversation that reveals the following about its owners: Edward John Dell served as a shipfitter on the naval ship USS LST-471, which served in the South Pacific in 1943. The postcards he sent home to his wife are charming and conversational: “I just had a couple of hot dogs and pie a la mode and a big cup of hot coffee and boy did that hit the spot.” After the war, Edward worked as a plumbing contractor to support the family home that he and Georgine physically built themselves. Georgine took Laura for visits to the Macy’s in Parkchester where the salesgirls called her “Little Miss Macy.”
The little sailor boy’s complacent smile reminds us that although he is not one-of-a-kind, he is unique. Thanks to him, an entire family’s history will become an integral part of the National Collections.
“My mother would be so honored to know that something of hers was actually in the Smithsonian,” Laura Dell remarked. “She was thrilled when she heard that you have some of the same china that she has! (Franciscan Desert Rose) She used to say, 'My china is in the Smithsonian!' Little did she know that something of hers would really be in the Smithsonian!”
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