An Amazing Artifact - A True Roped Navy Plug!

misterlowercase

Lifer

May 31, 2012

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• Apr 25, 2015

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Got lucky today and won this auction on the cheap, a corded plug made by R&J Hill way back when, I'd reckon 30's or 40's but really I have no idea - not much info found online about them besides the fact they were bought out by Carreras in 1953...
...I'm excited about this even if it is only a dustbunny never to be unwound, just cool stuff to enhance my atmosphere and juice up my romantic dreamings LOL

Hill's had a popular cigarette brand called Spinet, but it seems overall that they were a fairly small company.
Here's a great old 1906 photo of their Flake Dept...

(note the corded rolls!)

A couple of ads...

And a couple of tins...

:P

 

eightywon

Part of the Furniture Now

Apr 4, 2014

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• Apr 25, 2015

• #2

Very cool!

 

daimyo

Lifer

May 15, 2014

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• Apr 25, 2015

• #3

That is awesome but I don't think I could resists the urge to open it and smoke some.

 

philobeddoe

Lifer

Oct 31, 2011

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East Indiana

• Apr 25, 2015

• #4

Nice find, I've never seen tobacco sold wrapped in cordage.

 

condorlover1

Lifer

Dec 22, 2013

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New York

• Apr 25, 2015

• #5

I have seen something like that before a very long time ago. It was a very thick piece of black twist that was tightly wound with some form of brown string with a cloth cap on one end. As you sliced the twist off you pulled the loose end of the twine which had the effect of shortening the twine wrapping.. For the life of me I just don't recall where I saw the thing but it had to be about 1984 or there about.

 

thefalcon

Starting to Get Obsessed

Dec 23, 2012

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• Apr 26, 2015

• #6

Once rehydrated should prove to be an interesting and strong smoke. Let us know the outcome!
Eric

 

monty55

Lifer

Apr 16, 2014

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Bryan, Texas

• Apr 26, 2015

• #7

YAY! :clap: misterlowercase is back!
Damn I miss these posts!!
That is the coolest tobacco item I have seen yet!
Thanks for sharing another fascinating artifact from the halls of the Minister of Tobacciana :worship:

 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate

Nov 12, 2014

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• Apr 26, 2015

• #8

Amazing find! Turning green over here.

8O

:worship:

 

condorlover1

Lifer

Dec 22, 2013

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New York

• Apr 26, 2015

• #9

That will happen if you try to smoke the stuff!

 

misterlowercase

Lifer

May 31, 2012

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• Apr 27, 2015

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:P

LOL

No green worries for me!

I don't intend to open it, I'd never be able to rewrap the twine cord in the same manner, besides, the mystery will deepen the dreamings LOL
Something like this is rarely seen intact and it's a true survivor, so wrapped it shall remain.
Could I be missing out on the smoke of a lifetime?

Possibly, but the chances are remote that it'd be up to snuff.
I've been surprised before though,

very surprised,

when I did have a peak smoking experience with some stuff I was most certain would have been flat, dead, and given up the ghost --- but this stuff was simply beyond incredible!
Plover Pigtail

 

cosmicfolklore

Lifer

Aug 9, 2013

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Between the Heart of Alabama and Hot Springs NC

• Apr 27, 2015

• #11

Very cool!!! I'm jealous. I would be torn between wanting to try it and not wanting to mess up the packaging also. I love the old packaging.

 

monty55

Lifer

Apr 16, 2014

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Bryan, Texas

• Apr 27, 2015

• #12

Wow, where the hell do you find this stuff??

 

misterlowercase

Lifer

May 31, 2012

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• Apr 27, 2015

• #13

It finds me!

 

lonestar

Lifer

Mar 22, 2011

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Edgewood Texas

• Apr 27, 2015

• #14

Definitely a centerpiece in the collection !

 

misterlowercase

Lifer

May 31, 2012

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• Apr 27, 2015

• #15

I'm not even supposed to have a damn collection!
I'm supposed to be logical and only buy old stuff if I'm gonna smoke it!

I gave myself that rule a while back but sadly I don't have the restraint or willpower to resist the magnetic pull!
I don't wanna dusty museum, but somehow these things find their way into my life...

:!:

 

seacaptain

Lifer

Apr 24, 2015

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• Apr 28, 2015

• #16

Wow, how old is that pigtail?

 

settersbrace

Lifer

Mar 20, 2014

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• Apr 28, 2015

• #17

I'm just awestruck, I'd love the opportunity to actually see (in person) so much of the rare tobacciana you've come to collect and thankfully for the rest of us, share here. I can't imagine how labor intensive that cord wrapped plug must have been back in the day, done by women I'd guess?

 

misterlowercase

Lifer

May 31, 2012

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• Apr 28, 2015

• #18

I'm not really a "serious collector", I'm more of an enthusiast hobbyist I'd say.
A serious collector doesn't blink an eye to drop $250 on an old catalog, or $300+ on a vintage sealed tin.
I'm just a goofy guy with a obsessive penchant for the old UK stuff.
Someone like this is more of a serious collector:

http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/an-incredible-library-of-pipe-amp-tobacco-books

Dock Perry.

He had an absolutely amazing collection of printed ephemera, display items, advertising material, and high end pipes --- the rather odd thing was that he said he wasn't emotionally involved with any of it at all and one day he decided to give it all up and sold the collection off!
He had a great knack for finding some really really scarce stuff!

::

 

menuhin

Part of the Furniture Now

Oct 21, 2014

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• Apr 28, 2015

• #19

Cool beyond description! 8O

Why the tobacconists and blenders in the old days can create so many great artifacts while in modern time with all the machinery we are not seeing things similarly cool?

 

okiescout

Lifer

Jan 27, 2013

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• Apr 28, 2015

• #20

When you look at that bundle, you see the man hours lavished on products of that day. Wow, a work of art inside a work of art.

Cool find, mrlowercase.