American Toby Jug Museum 

Sairey Gamp & Pecksniff thimbles produced by Francesca China of Longton, England, circa 1985. Sairey Gamp, the disreputable and garrulous nurse in the 1843 novel, "Martin Chuzzlewit", is one of Charles Dickens' greatest comic creations. "A fat old widow with a husky voice and a moist eye, it was difficult to enjoy her society without becoming conscious of a smell of spirits." Mrs. Gamp has the responsible job of midwife, watcher of the dying and 'performer of nameless offices about the persons of the dead." Mr. Seth Pecksniff from Charles Dickens' novel "Martin Chuzzlewit" is the sanctimonious surveyor and architect "who has never designed or built anything", and one of the biggest hypocrites in fiction. In an effort to gain old Martin's money he embraces, then throws out grandson Martin at old Martin's wish. When long time servant Tom Pinch learns of Pecksniff's treachery he is also thrown out.