Rare C.1939-55 Toby Jug “J. Barleycorn Old Lad” by Royal Doulton (UK)
Very Rare C.1939-55 Toby Jug “John Barleycorn Old Lad” by Royal Doulton. Royal Doulton is an English ceramic and home accessories manufacturer founded in 1815. Operating originally in Vauxhall, London, later moving to Lambeth, in 1882 it opened a factory in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, in the centre of English pottery. From the start the backbone of the business was a wide range of utilitarian wares, mostly stonewares, including storage jars, tankards and the like, and later extending to pipes for