Winston Churchill Toby mug. | Brian Seed/GettyImages. The faces were somewhat caricaturish, which may explain why the word mug is often used to describe an unattractive face, a funny facial ...

Thrifting homeware and décor can be great fun, especially when you're on the lookout for this unique mug that vintage collectors are obsessed with.

BORIS JOHNSON is still the most popular face in Parliament, more than a year after he left Downing Street. It’s been revealed the ex-PM’s caricature is the top-selling Toby jug on sale in the ...

PHOTOS/JULIE ROBINSON ROBARDS Three character mugs are about 2 3/4 inches tall. The first two, Widdicome and Queen Bess, were produced as Character Ware by the Lancaster Sandland pottery in ...

Royal Doulton introduced Toby and character mugs in the 1930s. Both styles are marked with numbers in a "D" series. The character mugs are made in three sizes, large, small and miniature.

A Toby is a figural jug of a seated man, occasionally a woman, wearing a tricorn hat in a drunken state, usually with mug in hand. Tobys were first made in England in the 1760s.