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.”
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
1950s West Germany Floral Brooch and Earrings Set Including Rhinestones
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Christian Dior Top Handle Boston Bag in Brown Trotter Canvas
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Tacori 18K Sonoma Dew Droplets Ring
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Pair of Old Staffordshire Figures of Cats
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
18K Citrine and Sapphire Ring
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Alexander McQueen Two-Way Handbag in Floral Leather
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
LeCoultre & Cie "Atmos" Mantel Clock, Mid to Late 20th Century
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
BVLGARI Luky Cat Silk Scarf with Box
EBTH Columbus - Hilliard
Block Langenthal Transition Interaction China Luncheon Set
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Pair of Danish Modern Teak and Custom-Upholstered Side Chairs, Mid-20th Century
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
C. Liton Copy Oil Painting After Cornelis Springer of Dutch Street Scene
EBTH Columbus - Hilliard
Alexander Calder Color Lithograph from Derrière le Miroir, 1976
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Block "Wyndham" Crystal Biscuit Barrels with Godinger and Other Biscuit Barrels
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
L. Hils Hafele Desert Landscape Acrylic Painting, 1989
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Sterling Citrine Necklace
EBTH Columbus - Hilliard
Gregorio Prestopino Watercolor and Ink Wash Painting "Little Grandma"
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Sterling Amber Ring
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Walter Stomps Abstract Geometric Acrylic Painting "Galactic Border No. 7"
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Lithograph After Robert Hoppe "Nocturne"
EBTH Cincinnati - Blue Ash
Model Train Locomotives, Cars, Track, Transformer, Buildings and More, Vintage
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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.
