Review on 🍪 Waterford Crystal Lismore Biscuit Storage Jar by Lauren Perry

Bottom line: Waterford isn't "old Waterford" anymore. Don't buy this. They may have updated the online photo since my purchase but the photo of the Waterford Lismore biscuit jar displayed on Revain was not the same product as the lower quality biscuit jar received. The photo appears to show an "old Waterford" biscuit jar when the high quality Waterford was still made in Ireland. After receiving the package I researched Waterford online and found that Waterford went bankrupt in 2009, was later bought by another company and is now manufactured OUTSIDE Ireland. I grew up watching Waterford at my parents house (on special occasions) so I am very familiar with the expected quality of cut crystal. The one I got reminded me more of Lenox than Waterford. From the 1970s until her death in 2017, my mom kept a keg of Lismore biscuits (usually filled with jellies or M&Ms) on her coffee table. For all of us, the trick/game was being able to take the lid off and put it back on silently (that's "cling"!) and not get stuck ("I heard that!");- ) She later bought one for each of us (her children) and then planned to give each of her grandchildren a wedding present. Wanting to continue their tradition, we bought this New Waterford biscuit jar for the wedding of another of their grandchildren. But what a disappointment. The quality was only "good" and didn't match the nearly $300 price tag. We ended up returning it and bought another cookie jar from another European manufacturer (Barski, on Revain) for about a third of the price. Still not the quality of "old Waterford" but still very nice and the price is more in line with the quality level. We filled it with personalized M&Ms and a wish note saying it would always bring back memories of her visits to Grandma and Dad (followed by an explanation of why it's not a Waterford biscuit barrel). And she loved him (Barsky)!