Grandma’s Cookie Crock-Western Stoneware, USA

1980s Stoneware Two-Tone Cookie Crock made by Western Stoneware/Monmouth Pottery for Grandma’s Cookie Company.
Made in Monmouth, Illinois.
Excellent condition
Weighs 5 pounds 5 ounces
9” Tall and 7” Diameter
Circumference of canister is 23 inches.

ABOUT THE COOKIE BRAND:
Foster Wheeler was the man that founded Grandma's Cookie Company in Portland, Oregon, back in 1914. It was a family- owned company, typical of the times and the recipes were probably the best kept secret in Oregon. Grandma's trademark is the image of a lovely lady with white hair pulled back in a bun. She has black eyes and eyebrows, and her wire-rim eyeglasses sit low on her nose.
Grandma wears a big smile and is dressed in a long, blue dress with a white collar. Her only jewelry is a brooch is at the neckline.
Foster Wheeler enjoyed his business until he retired in 1942. At that time, another family took over when Ralph Whittenburg acquired Grandma's Cookies Company.
They kept expanding the company and by 1970 they had added 40,000 square feet to their bakery. By that time, they were selling cookies throughout the entire Pacific Northwest. Grandma's Cookies Grandma's Cookies became more famous, and the grandma's cookie trademark took on new dimensions. In the 1970s the people at Grandma's Cookie Company helped promote their product with three-dimensional advertising. They offered customers a figural bank in the image of their famous Grandma's trademark. The corporation even had famous English pottery furnaces in Staffordshire make their ceramic mugs. These mugs had gilded brims and featured their trademarked logo. The most collectible of the grandma's merchandise was the Cookie Crocks with lids made by various American studio potters like Western Stoneware and McCoy Pottery.
This 1970s-character bank has the features of the trademark, plus a long white apron with "Grandma's Brand" molded on the front of the it.
The success of Grandma's Cookie Company attracted the attention of snack food mega-giant Frito-Lay. With a generous offer, Frito-Lay purchased the baking goods company from the Whittenburg family on May 20, 1980, for an undisclosed amount. Following the successful test marketing in Kansas City, Missouri, Frito-Lay began distributing Grandma's Cookies nationwide in 1983.
Grandma's Cookies are made in a variety of flavors:
Some of them are the Peanut ButterCrème, Chocolate Brownie Cookies, Vanilla Crème Minis, Fudge Nut Brownies, and Oatmeal Spice. There are more than 20 different kinds.
Customers can find them in small packages of two and they taste better than ever! - (from ORMS)

ABOUT THE POTTERY:
Western Stoneware is a historic pottery company founded in 1906 through the merger of seven other companies. Headquartered in Monmouth, Illinois, the company produced a wide variety of stoneware products for over a century, including crocks, jugs, and vases.
The company made a wide array of products like crocks, jugs, water coolers, and butter churns. They also created specific dinnerware lines such as Americana, Four Seasons, and Casual from 1961 to 1974.
The brand was originally associated with the maple leaf logo of the Monmouth Pottery Company, which was one of the original seven companies.
The original production plants closed in 2006, but the brand continues with new artistic and digital ceramic art, according to Western Stoneware. The company is also still associated with Monmouth, IL.

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