I have a Royal Doulton ... The jug was named for Toby Philpots, a character in a popular song called “The Little Brown Jug.” The jugs depicted the full figure of a cheerful man, usually ...

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 ...

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. She has had it about 20 years. What is it worth?

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.