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So-called “Temperance Jugs” form an interesting genre of pottery. Take

a look at this one. The stoneware jug is incised allover, creating a tree By
bark appearance; it is also decorated with a monkey, a lizard, a snake submitting
and a turtle. The side of the jug is incised, “B. / 1885,” and the base is this form,
signed, “Bray / 1885.” Temperance Jugs are sometimes called “snake you are
jugs” because almost all of them have a snake crawling up toward the consenting
neck or twined about the neck and body. Join this with lizards, to receive
monkeys and other critters, and you have most of the hallucinations marketing
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Ironically, according to dealer and collector Mike Isom, the most Digital
common use of these jugs was to hold and pour whiskey! “I guess you Antiques
could say the snakes are metaphorically whiskey, devouring everything Journal, 12
that’s hopeful or everything that’s nice,” Isom said. Many, but not the Water St.,
one featured here, were made by the Kirkpatrick brothers at the Anna Ipswich,
Pottery in Indiana. In private life, Wallace and Cornwall, the MA, 01938,
Kirkpatrick brothers, were members of local temperance societies, but http://www
many of their best customers were taverns. “They made thousands of .antiquesjo
whiskey jugs,” Isom said, both Pig Jugs and Temperance Jugs. urnal.com.
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you look at some of these items — the satirical, over-the-top nature of
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The Temperance Jug featured here was made by Simeon Lewis Bray Contact
(1849-1914) in Evansville, Indiana, He and his brother, William lived in
Anna for many years, likely apprenticing or working at the Kirkpatrick
Museums &
Pottery. Afterwards, they relocated more than 100 miles west to
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Evansville in the mid-1870s where they set up a pottery, probably to ns
cater to the to the thriving trade along the Ohio River.
This example, which was sold by Case Antiques in 2017, may be one of
the better-known temperance jugs from the Bray pottery. Many of the
Bray jugs were similar to those produced in Anna, but this one has a
unique assembly of hallucinatory animals.
Are you going to drink whiskey or water from yours? Images courtesy
Case Antiques, Auctions and Appraisals, Knoxville TN, caseantiques.com
Sources: Restoration
“19th Century Stoneware Temperance Jug from the Bray Pottery in
Evansville, Indiana,” Justin Thomas. 11/14/19.
www.earlyamericanceramics.com/2019/11/19th-century-stoneware-
temperance-jug.html “Temperance and Whiskey Jugs” Brian Stewart,
The Southern, 6/7/12. www.thesouthern.com
Ship Wrecked: Booze Saved (2.5-minute read)
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A bottle still in the diver’s hands. Courtesy Ocean-X Team
In 1917 a German submarine sank the S.S. Kyros, a ship bound for
Russia. Deep in its cargo were 50 cases of cognac, branded “De Blog
Haartman & Co.,” and 15 cases of liqueur, branded “Bénédictine.” This Archives
was the most exciting find by Ocean-X Team, the salvage company,
when it explored the ship earlier this year. Select Month
There is the tantalizing possibility that the 100-year-old liquor could

still be drinkable. In which case it could fetch big bucks at auction. Such Follow us on
discoveries are not without precedent, said Amanda Schuster, author Facebook
of New York Cocktails and editor in chief of “The Alcohol Professor,” a
website devoted to alcohol. “These things happen, but it doesn’t
happen often,” she said. “Only every once in a while.”
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A bottle of the Cognac. Courtesy Ocean-X Team Sleeping Dangerously (2-

minute read)
In 2010, divers discovered 170-year-old champagne in a shipwreck in
A little quiz about the
the Baltic Sea. It was drinkable, but only by the scientists whose report
dangers of sleeping: (A)
analyzed everything you could think of — except its taste. Scientists, Miasmas might make you
not connoisseurs. sick while asleep: (B)
When sharing a bed, a
That same year, three crates of whisky and two crates of brandy were healthier sleeper might
found in Antarctica, left beneath the floorboards of a hut by the polar suck the vitality out of a
explorer Ernest Shackleton in 1909. Nobody reportedly drank that weaker one: Which was
whisky.
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But in 2011, a master blender for Whyte & Mackay, a Scottish whisky
company, did create a replica of the drink after a “sensory and chemical
analysis.” (We assume that a “sensory analysis” is science-speak for
“drinking.”) But at least, the replica was available for drinkers outside
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the laboratory. eb
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Bénédictine bottles. Courtesy Ocean-X Team
Was this Cognac and Bénédictine from the Kyros still drinkable?
Possibly, according to experts. There is hope: spirits “tend to keep far
better than most wines over very long periods,” said David Wondrich,
senior drinks columnist at The Daily Beast. “I’ve tasted numerous not
just drinkable, but delicious bottles from the 1910s and before.” But
who is going to conduct the “sensory analysis” and drink the booze
from the Kyros? Any volunteers?
Source: Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 11/14/19
Postscript
Bénédictine? Really?
Today, many believe that Bénédictine has been by Benedictine
monks since the sixteenth century, still using the original recipe.
Good story, good marketing.
In 1863 a Frenchman, Alexandre Le Grand developed a recipe

for an herbal liqueur from old medicinal recipes that he had
acquired from a religious foundation. To market it, he
embellished the story, claiming that the liqueur had been
developed by monks at the Benedictine Abbey of Fécamp in
Normandy, and produced by them until the abbey’s devastation
during the French Revolution. To add credence to the story and
to help market his “Bénédictine,” Alexandre put “D.O.M.” on the
Bénédictine today. © Chriusha (Хрюша) / CC-BY-SA-3.0,

commons.wikimedia.org
label, for “Deo Optimo Maximo” (“To God, most good, most
great”) which is still used at the beginning of documents by the
Benedictine Order to dedicate their work.
Bénédictine, poster, 1908, by Leonetto Cappiello,

commons.wikimedia.org
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So-called “Temperance Jugs” form an interesting genre of pottery. Take

unique assembly of hallucinatory animals.

Ship Wrecked: Booze Saved (2.5-minute read)

A bottle still in the diver’s hands. Courtesy Ocean-X Team

There is the tantalizing possibility that the 100-year-old liquor could

Be the first of your friends to like

A bottle of the Cognac. Courtesy Ocean-X Team Sleeping Dangerously (2-

Bénédictine bottles. Courtesy Ocean-X Team

Source: Mihir Zaveri, New York Times, 11/14/19

In 1863 a Frenchman, Alexandre Le Grand developed a recipe

Bénédictine today. © Chriusha (Хрюша) / CC-BY-SA-3.0,

Bénédictine, poster, 1908, by Leonetto Cappiello,

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