American Toby Jug Museum 

Mr. Bumble character jug produced by Staffordshire Heritage of Staffordshire, England, circa 2000. Mr. Bumble is the pompous, self-important beadle, a minor parish official who served as an usher and preserved order at services in the workhouse in Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist". This is the same house where Oliver is born. The fat, well-dressed Bumble preaches Christian morality, but behaves without compassion toward the paupers under his care, becoming the symbol of Dickens' distaste for the workhouse system. He marries Mrs. Corney and later is disgraced and becomes a resident in the same workhouse. Due to Bumble's bumbling, Oliver escapes from Mr. Bumble's care and runs away to London. A truncheon forms the handle of the jug. This was produced from Artone Pottery's The Beadle character jug molds.