Add a Little Flavor to Your Life: Collecting Salt and Pepper Shakers

Fellow Treasure Hunters, are you a fan of novelty salt and pepper shakers? Those lovable bench sitters, bobbers, carriers, go-withs, hangers, holders, huggers, kissers, longboys, mechanical, mini's, nesters, nodders, rockers, sitters, stackers, tallboys and turnabouts?

Yes, those are just a few of the different kinds of salt and pepper shakers that avid collectors know all about.

Here are a few pictures to understand the salt and pepper lingo:
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BENCH SITTERS:

HANGERS:

LONGBOYS OR TALLBOYS:

These examples are from the Novelty Salt and Pepper Club. Yes, a club for novelty salt and pepper collectors! How cool is that! Be sure to visit their website, it is a lot of fun and very informative.

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We are fans of these gems because they are fun to collect. They can be found at garage sales, thrift stores and antiques shops often at a low cost. They are full of personality, and they don't take up a lot of space.... unless your collection has gone wild! Like Ruth Rasmussen's collection that now resides in a gallery in Traer, IA. The Traer Salt and Pepper Shaker Gallery boasts "Over 16,000 different sets of shakers and still growing!"

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Not impressed with 16,000 salt and pepper shakers? How about 80,000? Collector Andrea Ludden has her shakers split between two places. 40,000 can be viewed at the The Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

 and the other 40,00 at the Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers in Guadalest, Spain.

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We currently have two shakers sets available on shopgoodwill.com.

Denby Memories Salt And Pepper Shakers

Hand Painted Black Americana Salt Shakers

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Be sure to look for more shakers at your local Goodwill on both the Treasure Chest shelves and the housewares shelves. Follow this link for store locations: goodwillswmi.org/our-locations/

If you have a salt and pepper collection, would you share it with us? We would love to see it! Send your pictures and information to marketing@goodwillswmi.org Thanks and

Happy Treasure Hunting!