VHTF Metlox Poppytrail Blue Owl Cookie Jar ~Mothers Day

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You are bidding on a VHTF Metlox Poppytrail Blue Owl Cookie Jar in awesome shape!! Highly collectable and selling for $90 - $150 elsewhere!! Mothers day is right around the corner......fine addition to any jar collection!!! Please see photos for detail and feel free to ask questions please! BUY IT NOW AND GET FREE SHIPPING!!!!!!! Metlox Pottery was a manufacturer of ceramic housewares, located at 1200 Morningside Drive, Manhattan Beach, California . It was founded in 1927 by T. C. Prouty and his son Willis Prouty, originally as a producer of outdoor ceramic signs. After the death of T.C. in 1931, Willis renamed the company Metlox Pottery ("Metlox" is a combination of "metal" and "oxide," a reference to the glaze pigments), and began producing dinnerware . The Metlox Manufacturing Company was incorporated October 5, 1933.Evan K. Shaw, of American Pottery in Los Angeles , purchased Metlox from Willis Prouty in 1946.After Shaw's death in 1980, Kenneth Avery became the president of Metlox.The first line of pottery produced, "Poppytrail," became well known for its brightly colored glazes derived from locally mined metallic oxides. Subsequent lines included "Nostalgia," "Red Rooster," "California Provincial," "Colonial Homestead," "Homestead Provincial," and "Colorstax." Besides kitchenware, Metlox also produced a very popular line read more