Toby Style Captain Ahab Mug with Moby Dick Whale Handle - by Royal Doulton
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This is a "character jug" or "Toby style mug" of Captain Ahab in a blue cap, black coat, and white sweater. Handle is shaped like the whale, Moby Dick. Designed in 1958 by Garry Sharpe. Captain Ahab sailed the whaler, Pequod, in Herman Melville's great 19th century American classic, "Moby Dick". He lost a leg and then his life in pursuit of the great white whale, who triumphed in the chase and sunk his ship.
Production
- Manufacturer
- Royal Doulton
- Producer
- Royal Doulton
- Date
- 1959-1984
Release
Physical Characteristics
- Material
- Ceramic
- Colour
- Beige / Grey
- Imagery
- Animal
- Marking
- 'Royal Doulton" on bottom.
- Notes
- beige (flesh color), gray, dark blue glaze