Vintage Royal Doulton 4 in Medium Toby Mug Jug 1954 Rip Van Winkle D6463 England


Vintage Royal Doulton 4 in Medium Toby Mug Jug 1954 Rip Van Winkle D6463 England

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Vintage Royal Doulton 4 in Medium Toby Mug Jug 1954 Rip Van Winkle D6463 England:
$32.99


Vintage Royal Doulton 4 in Medium Toby Mug Jug 1954 Rip Van Winkle D6463 EnglandThis is a 4 inch tall medum size Royal Doulton Vintage Toby Character Mug Rip Van Winkle D6463. The mug is in good Vintage condition, the surface glaze does show some minor yellowing from age (60+ years) with no chips or cracks and is valued at $85+.
\"Rip Van Winkle\" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 and is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. In a pleasant village, at the foot of New York\'s Catskill Mountains, lives Rip Van Winkle, a Dutch villager. Van Winkle enjoys solitary activities in the wilderness, but he is also loved by all in town, especially the children to whom he tells stories and gives toys. However, he tends to avoid hard work, to his nagging wife\'s dismay, which has caused his home and farm to fall into disarray.
One autumn day, to escape his wife\'s nagging, Van Winkle wanders up the mountains with his dog, Wolf and encounters a man wearing antiquated Dutch clothing carrying a keg up the mountain. Together, they proceed to a hollow in which Rip discovers the source of thunderous noises: a group of ornately dressed, silent, bearded men who are playing nine-pins. Rip does not ask who they are or how they know his name. Instead, he begins to drink some of their moonshine and soon falls asleep.
He awakes to discover his musket is rotting and rusty, his beard is a foot long, and his dog is nowhere to be found. Van Winkle returns to his village where he recognizes no one and discovers that his wife has died and that his close friends have fallen in a war or moved away. He gets into trouble when he proclaims himself a loyal subject of King George III, not aware that the American Revolution has taken place. King George\'s portrait in the inn has been replaced with one of George Washington. Rip Van Winkle is also disturbed to find another man called Rip Van Winkle who is his son, now grown up.
Rip Van Winkle learns that the men he met in the mountains are rumored to be the ghosts of Henry Hudson\'s crew, which had vanished long ago and that has been away from the village for at least twenty years. Finally, an old resident recognizes him and Rip\'s grown daughter takes him in where he resumes his usual idleness, and his strange tale is solemnly taken to heart by the Dutch settlers. Other henpecked men wish they could have shared in Rip\'s good luck and had the luxury of sleeping through the hardships of the American Revolution.

Vintage Royal Doulton 4 in Medium Toby Mug Jug 1954 Rip Van Winkle D6463 England:
$32.99

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