When Did Petersons Switch To Round Tins

[--dante--]

I've found an old tin of University Flake in my basement (I use to cellar tobacco all over the place down there. It would have been purchased sometime after 2005 but probably not much later than 2009 or so. It's one of the older, rectangular tins with no tobacco warnings (here in the US), same as my old cellared Irish Flake tins. I'm curious about it's age, given that at some point the Peterson offerings went to the larger, round tins for everything. Anyone remember when that switch occured?

 

[judcole]

Murray blended Peterson used the rectangular tins. STG used round. I seem to recall that the switch happened around 2008, but I may be wrong.

 

[--dante--]

Murray blended Peterson used the rectangular tins. STG used round. I seem to recall that the switch happened around 2008, but I may be wrong.

That sounds about right.

 

[kcghost]

That's what I recall. You could still find the rectangles in B&M's for a few years after that.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

A friend I was with at the St Louis show this year bought a rectangular tin of University Flake there - from 2004 I believe.
It was spectacular.
I need to remember to ask him for another flake!

 

[ThermionicScott]

I've found an old tin of University Flake in my basement (I use to cellar tobacco all over the place down there. It would have been purchased sometime after 2005 but probably not much later than 2009 or so. It's one of the older, rectangular tins with no tobacco warnings (here in the US), same as my old cellared Irish Flake tins. I'm curious about it's age, given that at some point the Peterson offerings went to the larger, round tins for everything. Anyone remember when that switch occured?

I don’t think the switchover happened all at once. I’m pretty sure some of the Dunhill-branded flakes still came in rectangular tins close to 2017 or so. If you look up the long number next to the bar code on the back, we should be able to help date it exactly.

 

[--dante--]

I don’t think the switchover happened all at once. I’m pretty sure some of the Dunhill-branded flakes still came in rectangular tins close to 2017 or so. If you look up the long number next to the bar code on the back, we should be able to help date it exactly.

The number below (and separate) from the barcode is 0707100511

 

[ThermionicScott]

The number below (and separate) from the barcode is 0707100511

There ya go, 2007.

 

[coys]

It seems as though I've seen tins of Dunhill Flake in square tins in the late 2010s.

 

[--dante--]

There ya go, 2007.

Thanks! That's about what I thought. Now it's just a question of crack it open now, or wait until it's 20th birthday

 

[ThermionicScott]

Thanks! That's about what I thought. Now it's just a question of crack it open now, or wait until it's 20th birthday

I've got a tin of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture that just passed its 10th birthday. I debated opening it on the occasion of QE2's passing, but I already had so many VaPers open, I decided to wait...

 

[Durhamshire]

I love Peterson 3 P's, but do think the tin is a total waste. Most of tin is empty. Could be sold wrapped in paper close to the plug. Just like Condor & War Horse Bar was.