# Unnumbered Vandor Cookie Jar **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 16, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnumbered-vandor-cookie-jar/752409 "2016-04-16T22:26:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnumbered-vandor-cookie-jar/752409/1 "2016-04-16T22:26:33Z")
Dear Friends; I have a question for the collectables market. I purchased, new, a number of years ago a Vandor Yellow submarine Cookie Jar. Neither the certificate of authenticity,nor the Cookie jar itself is numbered. It has the spaces where the numbers should go, but was left blank in both places. Does this make a collectable jar More, or less Valuable in the collector’s market. I see the cookie jars available on Ebay for quite a bit, and it has led me to ponder selling mine My Google-foo has failed me in answering this, so I pose it to you, The wisest font of information on the web. Thanks you!!. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnumbered-vandor-cookie-jar/752409/2 "2016-04-16T23:47:36Z")
Wrong forum at the very least. ---
**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnumbered-vandor-cookie-jar/752409/3 "2016-04-17T01:20:23Z")
I am definitely not an expert on collectibles, but a question about the value of a cookie jar seems factual enough to me. The OP isn’t trying to sell the cookie jar here (that would be a Marketplace thing), they are just asking about the value. ---
**Author:** ![DrMemory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@DrMemory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrMemory)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnumbered-vandor-cookie-jar/752409/4 "2016-04-17T01:44:10Z")
Sorry Silenus, if I chose a wrong forum. Couldn’t decide if here of café Society might be best. Did I somehow offend you? If this is the wrong place to pose such a question, can some kind mod redirect? Thanks again… ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnumbered-vandor-cookie-jar/752409/5 "2016-04-17T17:09:02Z")
I have dealt with some Vandor Beatles items over the years but not the cookie jar. Vandor, like a lot of other companies that make their own “collectible” market, will make as many items as they can sell. A few have sold on Ebay the past couple of years and they had serial numbers of less than 1000. One low numbered example sold for $265, the others sold for less than $150. A 5 year old book of ceramic collectible prices lists the value of the cookie jar at $75 to $125, the value is without regard to the serial number. There are two on Ebay now, one over priced at $295 and another at $215 with free shipping. I’m guess the market was not as strong for these items and the serial number part of the sales campaign became irrelevant.