toby
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The single collection also included a glass bust, a Coalport vase featuring Churchill's ancestral home of Blenheim Palace and Royal Doulton toby jugs.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2022
Photograph: toby farrow @ farrows creative Who are they?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
A supposed example of the last named is included in the Page collection at Lynn, and is known as the Napoleon toby.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
Then when he found the bank-notes and the Buddha and the toby jug with the unnumbered clippings belonging to them, he got almost as excited as I was.
From The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
But afterwards young Sam had his reward; the library, a toby, long before he was old enough to smoke, and his grandfather reading aloud in a wonderful voice, deep, sonorous, flexible—Shakespeare, Massinger, Beaumont and Fletcher.
From The Awakening of Helena Richie by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland
There is a smoothness of texture and finish about the work which marks it as distinct from the English tobies, which unfortunately frequently lacked these desirable qualities.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
Tobies are broadly classed as Staffordshire, and while this is probably true of a large portion, Dutch and German tobies as well as French ones are not uncommon.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
Early as it was, crowds of American, English, and Continental tourists were abroad, their gleaming white drill attire and tobies and helmets, conspicuous among the grander colour of the natives.
From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson
English tobies are sometimes classified as young and old tobies.
From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Mary H. Northend
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