what was used for a stopper for my jug/bottle?

[crazell]

i have a question. should i seal the wood with anything? burn it, use a wax? just curious..   well most the time we make a pie with everclear 190   good stuff...  but i guess if the badger's around we could put some sterno in it....  

[old salt]

Back in the eraly 60s I used to get a good bottle of wine, pop cork and take candle and stick in the mouth and light it and let wax run douwn and that would keep the mooches out of it. They would think it was just a candle holder and was empty.

[beowulf]

I still say the corn cob will do the trick and be pc . I have kin in western md , and west virginia that use them now days , and they`ll tell you grand dad and great grand dad used the same thing !

[crazell]

thanks kindly to all the suggestions, i guess I'll try several of the idea's, and then decide.. this is a major reason i like this forum!! now it's up to me to decide.. thanks again everyone....

[NAULTRICK1]

  WHAT!!!! Ya mean these jugs come with stoppers Stoppers??? We Doan Need No Stinkin' Stoppers

[beowulf]

yep ! stoppers do tend to be bothersome when one has a killer thirst 

[crazell]

But without one travelling, you might not get to quench your thirst..

[Pete Stines]

For what it's worth, the Greeks used lead bottles to store wine. The lead leached into the wine and produced a sweet taste. It also produced lead acetate which is toxic. But they probably cast a lead stopper for their containers and coated it with melted wax to seal it. BTW Lead acetate was used later to make match cord used in matchlocks. Saltpeter causes the match to burn too fast and sputter. Of course you wouldn't use lead to store anything drinkable.
Although I don't know about some of the chaps who post on this site. 

[graybear]

With some of these characters, I don't think the potables would be around long enough to be considered stored.

[Otter]

Thought for the day on this thread. Consider the implications of lead, drinking water, viaducts for water and the fall of the Roman Empire. Might just be my imagination but there sure seems to be a connection. 

[Pete Stines]

The Franklin expedition in the 1850's carried rations in tin cans soldered with lead. Bodies that were found near one of the camps show definate signs of lead poisoning, so it's very likely that the Romans suffered the same fate 

[Rocky]

I heard that recently a well known terrorist died of lead poisoning.

[Hawken50]

   Nothin says gotcha like a friendly double tap from your local seal team.