American Toby Jug Museum 

Tony Weller character jug modeled by Leslie Harradine and Harry Fenton, and produced by Royal Doulton of Burslem, England, between 1936-1942. Tony Weller, the coach driver and repository of Cockney wisdom, is a popular character from Charles Dickens' "Pickwick Papers", first published in 1836. He is the father of Sam Weller, Mr. Pickwick's manservant. Experience of life has turned him into something of a philosopher, mistrustful of "vidder" and a staunch believer in the virtue of a "haliby." His wife, Susan, is the proprietor of the Marquis and Granby Inn in Dorking. Susan falls in with the hypocritical Reverend Stiggins, of the Brick Lane Temperance Association, who the frequently imbibing Tony later exposes. Weller's whip handle forms the handle of the jug. Along with this extra-large size jug, a large size (D5531), a small size (D5530), and a miniature size (D6044) were also produced.