American Toby Jug Museum 

Smithy toby jug produced by Staffordshire Fine Ceramics of Tunstall, England, circa 1975. The smithy was an integral part of colonial Williamsburg. With forge and anvil, hammer and tongs, blacksmiths made agricultural tools for farmers and iron rims for wheelwrights and repaired many iron objects used by colonial residents. Their skills served customers as diverse as the miller, saddler, coach maker, and planter. For the household, blacksmiths cast, bent, welded, and riveted fireplace racks, andirons, pothooks, locks, utensils, and decorative wrought iron. A blacksmith's forge consisted of a raised brick hearth outfitted with bellows to feed its soft-coal fire and a hood to carry away the smoke.