American Toby Jug Museum 

Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson thimbles produced by Francesca China of Longton, England, circa 1985. From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination comes this most accomplished detective, Sherlock Holmes. The world's first consulting detective, Holmes, along with his eager narrator Dr. Watson, was uncanny in his ability to ferret out clues and deduce the perpetrator of some dastardly deed. Having solved thousands of cases and never far from his pipe and magnifying glass, Holmes is constantly stopping to investigate some vital clue in the case he is presently pursuing. Dr. John H. Watson is the eager associate of Holmes and assistant on solving many intriguing mysteries. Watson is a medical man of some experience. Watson is portrayed as a capable and brave individual; his intelligence serves as a foil to Holmes' insight. Both are brilliant, and each is useful for their purposes, they are remarkably different in their function, a clever literary pairing.