Vintage Royal Doulton Character Mug Sairey Gamp 6½ circa 1937

Vintage Royal Doulton Character Mug - Sairey Gamp - 6½ - circa 1937. Condition - Very Good Pre-Owned. Royal Doulton Character Jug, Sairey Gamp. Designed by Leslie Harradine and Harry Fenton, Issued 1937 - 1986. Depth - 5" (w/o handle) - 7¼" (with handle).

In Charles Dicken's 1843 novel " Martin Chuzzlewit" Sairey Gamp is a gossiping, gin drinking midwife and nurse. The general consensus is that. Toby Jugs were named for an 18th-century Yorkshire man who got the nickname Toby Fillpot after he drank 2,000 pints of Yorkshire stingo (ale). A Toby Jug is a figural ceramic pitcher modeled in the form of a popular character, historical, fictional or generic. It can be a person or animal.