American Toby Jug Museum 

The Pickwick Papers square jug produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, between 1937-1960. "The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club", better known as "The Pickwick Papers", was the first novel by Charles Dickens, published in monthly installments between March 1836 and October 1837. The novel's main character, Samuel Pickwick, is a kind old gentleman and the founder of the Pickwick Club. He is usually portrayed as a round-faced, clean-shaven, portly gentleman wearing spectacles. Mr. Pickwick travels with his friends, Mr. Nathaniel Winkle, Mr. Augustus Snodgrass, and Mr. Tracy Tupman, and their adventures are the chief theme of the novel. One memorable adventure is Mr. Pickwick's legal case against his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, who is suing him for the breach of promise to marry her. Another is Mr. Pickwick's incarceration at the Fleet for his stubborn refusal to pay the compensation to Mrs. Bardell.