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Mark's got lots of little and large Toby jugs

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These are just a few items from a huge collection of Toby jugs expected to fetch several thousand pounds at auction.

About 1,000 of the pottery jugs in the form of a seated person and other famous character jugs, such as the late Margaret Thatcher, are going on sale in the Westcountry next month.

Beryl Burgess, a resident of Hayle in Cornwall, spent more than 50 years collecting the items – including members of the royal family, political figures and First World War generals designed by cartoonist by Sir Francis Carruthers Gould – before she died.

Mark Hales, of Hales Auctioneers in Bovey Tracey, South Devon, said: "The sheer size of the collection is wonderful. And the variety of the items is mind-boggling: there are historical, political and theatrical figures."

The collection contains what is thought to be the world's largest Toby jug at nearly three feet tall and probably the world's smallest at just 13mm tall.

Mark's got lots of little and large Toby jugs


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