American Toby Jug Museum 

Capt Flint character jug produced by Thorley China of Longton, England, circa 1955. Captain Flint is a fictional character in the book "Treasure Island", created by Robert Louis Stevenson in 1883. In Stevenson's book, Flint, whose first name is not given, was the captain of a pirate ship, The Walrus, which accumulated an enormous amount of captured treasure, approximately £700,000. On August 1, 1750, Flint and six members of his crew bury the plunder on an island located somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. Flint then murders his six assistants, leaving the corpse of one, Allardyce, with its arms outstretched in the direction of the buried treasure. The only person Flint was said to fear was his quartermaster John Silver, who later even called his parrot "Captain Flint" in mockery. A flintlock pistol forms the handle of the jug.