The Original Collectors Series: Dallas, TX; Toby Jugs

“This sale is mostly my father’s Toby jugs, which is a collection that started with his mother, father and one of his uncles. That’s how it began, and he added to the collection every year. He used have the jugs sent regularly from Royal Doulton. Even after he passed away in 2001, they kept coming.
That’s only one of his collections, though. My mom was a travel agent, and they went all over the world together. They went on cruises all the time—she was a real cruise expert. They both had a lifelong interest in learning and traveling, and my mom loved to shop, so they were always bringing something back. Sometimes it was so big my dad had to hold it in his lap on the plane ride home.
He was also an avid model railroader. We had a huge basement in our family home growing up in the Chicago area, and one-third of it was devoted to model railroading. He loved the circuit stuff. I think he could have been an engineer.”

Royal Doulton "George Washington" D.6669 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "Henry VIII" and His Wives Toby Mugs Collection

Royal Doulton "Cyrano de Bergerac" D.7004 Toby Jug

Signed Royal Doulton "Count Dracula" D.7053 Toby Jug, COA

Royal Doulton "Granny" B.5521 Toby Jug and D.6384 Mug

Royal Doulton "North American Indian" D.6611 Toby Jug and D.6614 Mug

Royal Doulton "Old Salt" D.6551 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "The Fireman" D.6697 Toby Jug


Royal Doulton "Captain Bligh" D.6967 Toby Jug, COA

Royal Doulton "Old Charley" Toby Jug and D.5527 Mug

Royal Doulton "Lobster Man" D.6620 and "The Poacher" D.6464 Toby Mugs

Royal Doulton Shakespearean Collection "Henry V" D.6671 Toby Jug

Limited Edition Royal Doulton "Punch and Judy" D.6946 Toby Jug, COA

Royal Doulton "Auld Mac" Toby Jug and D.5824 Mug

Royal Doulton "Lord Nelson" D.6336 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "The Witch" D.6893 Toby Jug

Limited Edition Royal Doulton Star-Crossed Lovers Collection "King Arthur & Guinevere" D.6836 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "Smuggler" D.6616 Toby Jug and D.6619 Mug

Royal Doulton "Beefeater" D.6233 and "The London 'Bobby'" D.6762 Toby Mugs

Royal Doulton Shakespearean Collection "William Shakespeare" D.6689 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "Capt. Henry Morgan" D.6467 and D.6469 Toby Jug and Mug

Royal Doulton "Robinson Crusoe" D.6532 Toby Jug and D.6539 Mug

Signed Special Edition Royal Doulton "Cabinet Maker" D.7010 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "Old Salt" D.6554 Toby Mug and D.6618 Teapot

Limited Edition Royal Doulton "Antony & Cleopatra" D.6728 Toby Jug

Limited Edition Royal Doulton "Mr. Quaker" D.6738 Toby Jug, COA

Vintage Royal Doulton "Touchstone" Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "Capt. Ahab" D.6506 Toby Mug

Royal Doulton "Yachtsman" D.6626 and D.6820 Toby Jugs

Royal Doulton "Lobster Man" D.6617 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "Long John Silver" D.6853 Teapot and D.6386 Mug

Royal Doulton "Capt. Ahab" D. 6500 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "The Lord Mayor of London" D.6864 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "The Wizard" D.6862 and "Merlin" D.6536 Toby Jug and Mug

Royal Doulton "Izaak Walton" D.6404 Toby Jug

Limited Edition Royal Doulton Star-Crossed Lovers Collection "Samson & Delilah" D.6787 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "Falconer" D.6533 Toby Jug and D.6540 Mug

Royal Doulton "The Sleuth" D.6631 Toby Jug and D.6635 Mug

Royal Doulton "Dick Turpin" Toby Jug and Mug

Royal Doulton "Apothecary" Toby Jug and Mug and "Lawyer" Mug

Royal Doulton "The Trapper" D.6609 Toby Jug and D.6612 Mug

Royal Doulton "Neptune" D.6552 and D.6548 Toby Jug and Mug

Royal Doulton "Sir Thomas More" D.6792 Toby Jug

Royal Doulton "Scaramouche" D.6814 Toby Jug

Five 1966-1969 Bing & Grondahl Porcelain Christmas Plates

Seven 2000-2005 Bing & Grondahl Porcelain Christmas Plates

Eleven 1989-1999 Bing & Grondahl Porcelain Christmas Plates

Nine 1980-1988 Bing & Grondahl Porcelain Christmas Plates

Eleven 1970-1979 Bing & Grondahl Porcelain Christmas Plates

Ten 1990-1999 Royal Copenhagen Collector's Christmas Plates

Seven 2000-2005 Royal Copenhagen Collector's Christmas Plates

Ten 1970-1979 Royal Copenhagen Collector's Christmas Plates
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Where did your parents display the Toby jugs?
My dad had so many he couldn’t keep them all out at once, so he rotated. About 20 were in the living room, maybe 40 in the den, and the rest would be packed in the attic until he decided to switch them. When my kids were little, they thought they were kind of creepy!
Why did he love them so much?
I think it was a family thing, that his parents had collected them. He would have been so thrilled to see the Everything But the House staff sorting and grouping them for the sale! They were getting really into it, and he would have loved that.
It must be hard to part with them.
It’s been really hard because they meant so much to him. But I couldn’t park the car in my garage because it was full of my parents’ collectibles. Somehow, out of the four siblings, I became the holder of the family archives!
How about the collector’s plates?
They loved the Christmas plates, and the Mother’s Day plates were all over the kitchen around the cuckoo clock, which was another piece they picked up on one of their trips.