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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;sabre123, post: 435817, member: 8258&quot;]Odd enough to pique my interest, Chesaroo. [are those tobacco leaves on the lid?]</p><p><br /></p><p>A reference site on ugly jugs and such:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.newton.k12.in.us/art/3d/images/facejugs/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.newton.k12.in.us/art/3d/images/facejugs/" rel="nofollow">http://www.newton.k12.in.us/art/3d/images/facejugs/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b><font size="4">FOLK LORE ASSOCIATED WITH UGLY JUGS:</font></b><font size="4"> Ugly jugs or mugs became an American folk art tradition beginning in the 1800s. The time and place this tradition began depends on your source, and the jugs had several purposes which could all be valid. Folk lore handed down generation to generation told that slaves made ugly jugs to distinguish the different liquids inside. Jugs with faces were for the ones you couldn&#039;t drink, like ones filled with kerosene. According to family folk lore, ugly jugs were also used by slaves as grave markers, made ugly to scare the devil away. It is also said that ugly jugs were used to keep kids out of the moonshine. They were made as scary as possible for this purpose!</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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