American Toby Jug Museum 

Mr. Pecksniff character jug incised with the initials JH circa 1975. Seth Pecksniff is an unctuous English architect whose insincere behaviour made the name Pecksniff synonymous with hypocrisy. He appears in the novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44) by Charles Dickens. A widower with two daughters, Pecksniff is a self-styled teacher of architecture. He believes that he is a highly moral individual who loves his fellowman but mistreats his students and passes off their designs as his own for profit. He seems to be a cousin of Old Martin Chuzzlewit. Pecksniff's rise and fall follows the novel's plot arc.