American Toby Jug Museum 

Mike character jug produced by Shorter & Son of Stoke-on-Trent, England, circa 1960. Mike is an Irishman, a born and raised native and proud inhabitant of Ireland. His is full blooded with Irish descent on both sides of his family. A shillelagh, which is a wooden walking stick and club or cudgel typically made from a stout knotty blackthorn stick with a large knob at the top, forms the handle of the jug.