![Rip Van Winkle character jug - unknown circa 1960](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a8b614_8861c8e04e4e4002b3ed62bf00eedfa5~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_280,h_419,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Image-place-holder_edited_edited_edited_.jpg)
Rip Van Winkle character jug produced circa 1960. Rip Van Winkle is a short story by the American author Washington Irving, first published in 1819. It follows a Dutch-American villager in colonial America named Rip Van Winkle who meets mysterious Dutchmen, imbibes their liquor and falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains. He awakes twenty years later to a very changed world, having missed the American Revolution. Irving, inspired by a conversation on nostalgia with his American expatriate brother-in-law, wrote his story while temporarily living in Birmingham, England. While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills."
Maker:
unknown
unknown
circa 1960
Model #:
character jug
Size:
medium
Height:
6"
![Rip Van Winkle character jug - unknown circa 1960](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a8b614_82f327e34bc34ab68bb765716d22d5fb~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_229,h_344,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Image-place-holder_edited.jpg)
![Rip Van Winkle character jug - unknown circa 1960](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a8b614_402df34718a940689e2434a5709052cc~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_229,h_344,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Image-place-holder_edited.jpg)
![Rip Van Winkle character jug - unknown circa 1960](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a8b614_1ee930188b764a16a4631e1895d87cfa~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_229,h_344,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Image-place-holder_edited.jpg)
![Rip Van Winkle character jug - unknown circa 1960](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a8b614_9a0c16c7237645f69432fd62dc61ee28~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_229,h_344,al_c,q_80,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01,enc_auto/Image-place-holder_edited_edited_edited_.jpg)