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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DanaB, post: 1296829, member: 10739&quot;]Johnny, </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve checked out eBay Australia, there are over 1000 tobys listed. Mind you that most people don&#039;t know the difference between character jugs and toby jugs so they all seem to get lumped into the same category.&nbsp; I searched All categories and here&#039;s my search: toby +(mug,mugs,jug,jugs,pitcher,pitchers) this seems to work well for me on eBay. Now I&#039;d say there&#039;s probably about 50 items on Australia&#039;s eBay that aren&#039;t tobys but when I went to try and limit using the category I lost most of the jugs so 50 is not bad. But you&#039;ll also see jewelry and this is not a mistake. There are toby jug charms. So with all that said, I didn&#039;t find any toby jug steins. So I only checked in case you decide to sell. There are many sellers from Australia but I noticed other sellers selling there. </p><p><br /></p><p>But keeping it in the family does sound like a wonderful idea. I bought a collection this year of French toby jugs. The owner was an 80 yr old man who finally decided to downsize his collections but this one was special to him and he wanted the right person to get it. His grandmother had bought the first one a 100 years ago. And it was passed to his mother, then down to him. He called it a pitcher. He liked it because it had a unique expression on its face. One day while visiting France, he went into an Antique Shop. And there was another similar to his with a different expression. He loved the eyebrows, eyes, eyelashes, nose, mouth etc. Just every part that made up the face. If it was different he began to look for more but there was two hitches, they all had to be the same molded toby and been created from the same potter and therefore region of France. And so they were. He collected for many, many years and he finally had 8. He collected so long, he no longer remembered which one was the one his grandmother had bought. And he never realized he had forgotten until I asked him. Thru age and time, that memory had been lost. But he decided to put them up for sale on eBay. He lives in the US and I happen to be the lucky person to find them. He wanted a pretty penny for them but what was worth it to me was not just the tobys, but the story that came with them. And the love he had collecting them which is the same passion I have. He soon found out, I was the person he was looking for to take care of them and would cherish them and enjoy them. Everyday I wake up and see them and I love it! But it&#039;s this way with many I own!</p><p><br /></p><p>So if you have a story with this jug, write it down, roll it up and put it inside and keep the jug in the family. Because someday you might not remember the details that your daughter, son, granddaughter, grandson or whomever down the line might want to know!</p><p><br /></p><p>Dana[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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