American Toby Jug Museum 

Dutch Boy toby jug produced by Grindley Artware of Sebring, Ohio, circa 1945. A Dutch Boy refers to the Little Dutch Boy character, a boy who plugs a dike with his finger, featured in the novel "Hans Brinker", or "The Silver Skates" by Mary Mapes Dodge. He is characterized as a boy dressed in traditional Dutch clothing and wooden shoes with a type of bob haircut featuring straight bangs and hair cut horizontally above the neck. This Dutch Boy is holding a small bouquet of flowers he intends to give to his girlfriend, the Dutch Girl.