Issued in Limited Editions between 1915 and 1919, designed by Sir F Carruthers Gould, comprising Lord Kitchener, holding a jug inscribed 'Bitter for the KAISER', Admiral Beatty, holding a shell inscribed 'Dread Nought', Field Marshall Haig, seated upon a tank, titled 'PUSH AND GO' to the base, Admiral Jellicoe, holding a jug inscribed 'HELL FIRE JACK', Marshall Joffre, holding a shell inscribed '75mm Ce que joffre', Lord French, holding a jug inscribed 'French Pour Les Francais', the Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, holding a shell titled 'SHELL OUT!', Marshall Foch holding a champagne bottle inscribed 'AU DIABLE LE KAISER', General Botha, holding a jug inscribed 'LOYALTY', President Woodrow Wilson, with an aeroplane on his lap, the base inscribed 'WELCOME! UNCLE SAM', and King George V, holding a globe, the base inscribed 'PRO PATRIA', 25-31.5cm high, printed marks and facsimile signatures (some minor crazing and oxidization to enamels) (11)
Footnotes
Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925) was a caricaturist and political cartoonist. In 1894 he founded the monthly 'Picture Politics'. He was never savage in his cartoons, as he claimed 'I etch with vinegar, not vitriol'. See Vic Schuler, Collecting British Toby Jugs (1994), pp.167 and 168, for other examples and a discussion of the group.