Impressions Historically Accurate or Farbism?

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Is there any documentation to support a whiskey jug like this?

Photo courtesy of @LoriAnn.

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The stopper is post war. The markings are consistent with equipment markings circa 1890, but no one would claim a jug as company property. I'm going to say no based on the details.
 
The stopper is post war. The markings are consistent with equipment markings circa 1890, but no one would claim a jug as company property. I'm going to say no based on the details.

Agreed. To the best of my knowledge, no such jugs were made in the Civil War or post Civil War. Specially not on a Company level.
 
The stopper is post war, alright. It's post WWII. I can't comment on the rest. I don't doubt whiskey was available in bottles with bailed stoppers. I doubt those were labeled. ....But I think this post was launched as a joke and I am answering way too seriously.
 
The stopper is post war, alright. It's post WWII. I can't comment on the rest. I don't doubt whiskey was available in bottles with bailed stoppers. I doubt those were labeled. ....But I think this post was launched as a joke and I am answering way too seriously.
I kinda took it not as "is this original?" but as "is this ok to leave sitting out in broad daylight."
 
Oh, definitely! The tricky thing about things that are "close" in reenacting is not that spectators get the wrong impression, because it's really too small a detail for most to catch, but that OTHER reenactors will get the idea that the whachamacall it you brought was cool. Then 2 events later you see 3 more, then 4... then next season they're all over camp like bunnies in Farmer Macgregor's garden. Then someone has to write an overly scholarly paper about why that widget isn't right, and it's another couple years before they're invisible again. Then someone buys a used one on the secondary market and it enters a second life...
 
the first wire stoppers appeared in the 1870s …..just had a look on the vintage us bottle collectors site
 
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