More unidentified tins: e.g. Craven Mixture, Original Sobranie Ready Rubbed, etc

menuhin · Mar 22, 2015

There are a few more unidentified tins that I want to learn about from the forum members. The search of some of them yields results in Google or Tobaccoreviews.com, the information nonetheless is impoverish and lacking in many sense. These tins can be half-consumed, dried, or sealed, I have yet to check them carefully.
They are:

Walnut Mild Pipe Tobacco (John Middleton Inc. PA, USA)

Spinnaker Medium (Broches's Gravenhage)

King's Flake (Gallaher Ltd., London, England)

John Cotton's No. 1 Mild (John Cotton Ltd. Edinburgh, Scotland)

Dunbar Original Ready Rubbed (Mac Greenock's, Black Man Tobacco Company, Copenhagen)

Flying Dutchman (Theodorus Niemeyer Ltd., Holland)

Craven Mixture (Carreras Ltd., London, England)

Gold Label Dunhill Finest Matured Virginia (Alfred Dunhill Ltd., UK)

The Original Sobranie Ready Rubbed (Sobranie Ltd., London, England)

papipeguy · Mar 22, 2015

Quite the treasure trove. There are some very valuable tins there. I'm sure you'll hear about them.

sablebrush52 · Mar 22, 2015

The last time I saw a tin of John Cotton's on eBay, it went for something like $200.
You should be able to find a lot of information on Balkan Sobranie. Here's a link to a G L Pease article written about it:
http://firecured.blogspot.com/2012/01/balkan-sobranie-tobacco-some-history.html
And here's Jon Guss' article, which, given that it's Jon Guss, will be as well researched as is humanly possible.
http://biblio.catasdetabacos.com/articles%20pdf/Dating%20Sobranie%20of%20London%20Blends.pdf
Here's an article about Craven Mixture:
http://ashdownhouse.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-illustrious-history-of-craven.html

andrew · Mar 23, 2015

If those are sealed I would have a hard time opening them. I would most likely sell them and use the crazy profit to buy a bunch of pipe tobacco with it. You see some of those tins going for 200$ and up on ebay, who knows about stuff like the sobranie ready rubbed? Same with the dunhill? Craven? I'd rather have alot of tobacco then just a few tins, and there are many collectors out there that would readily pay the price for them. Of course then you should give the guy who gave them to you a nice bonus.

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