While other kids his age were collecting stamps or baseball cards, 12-year-old John Frank bought his first Royal Doulton character jug -- the Gladiator -- in the gift department of the old Robert ...

Gain insight into the auction performance of Doulton Royal . Track the change in total sales value, performance of lots against estimate and compare the artist's sale price according to the artwork ...

Q. I have a Royal Doulton character jug that depicts George Armstrong Custer on one side and Sitting Bull on the other. This mug is marked number 6,613 out of an edition of 9,500.

Q: A relative has a very nice Royal Doulton Character Jug of King Henry VIII. It has the number D6642 on the base as well as the Royal Doulton mark.

Q: My wife has a Royal Doulton Dickens jug. It is approximately 20 inches tall. She brought it back from Europe 50-plus years ago and it is in mint condition. Can you give me some information ...

In the late 1920s, Royal Doulton's artist and modeler Charles J. Noke developed a version of the Toby jug called Character Jugs. Character Jugs depict only the head and sometimes part of the shoulder.

Watch as Stuart Slavid appraises a Royal Doulton Hannah Barlow Jug, ca.1880, in Vintage Omaha. Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines.