History of the Twin Winton Peanut Man Cookie Jar

The Twin Winton Peanut Man Cookie Man Jar. It is pictured in the Don Wintons Designs Book on page 157. It is a picture from the 1968 Twin Winton catalog book and indicates that none exist. One was recently found by Jesse Dahl at a garage sale in Denver, Colorado. It is only the second Peanut Man that I know that has been found. The first known one I saw was owned by Rick Willis, Washington State many years ago. 

I believe this is the rarest of the Twin Winton Jars.

What is the history behind the Peanut Man Cookie Jar. Here is a plausible explanation.

The cookie jar depicts a caricature of Jimmy Carter as a peanut man dressed to resemble Napoleon Bonaparte, the former emperor of France. In the battle of Waterloo, Napoleon and his forces lost to the British and Prussian forces, ending his reign and domination over Europe

Prior to his career in politics, President Carter and his family famously had a peanut-growing business. As a result, numerous illustrations portraying Carter as a peanut have been used in both positive and negative ways throughout his political career. Republicans opponents used the comparison to Napoleon to illustrate President Carter as weak leader.

Both Napoleon and President Carter had something else in common. Both were attacked by rabbits. Jimmy Carter was fishing, while on vacation, and attacked by a rabbit and Napoleon Bonaparte was attacked by hundreds of rabbits in 1807 at a outdoor luncheon.

Don was a lifelong Republican. He probably wanted to inject a little of humor into politics in1968 with the Jimmy Carter cookie jar.