American Toby Jug Museum 

Mark Twain character jug in a white colorway designed by Ewald Nickel and produced by Giffen Porcelain of Hartford, Connecticut, circa 1970. Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1891), best known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" (1876) and its sequel, "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884), the latter of which has often been called the "Great American Novel".