A Prescient Old John Cotton Ad

[huntertrw]

This old advertisement seems to be looking forward to today, and to the rebirth of the John Cotton brand...

 

[buroak]

Prophetic!

 

[danielplainview]

I just ran across a slightly more modern advertisement.

 

[mso489]

Is the current version still from Edinburgh? Charming if true, not if not.

 

[mso489]

Oops. Visited the smokingpipes.com tobacco listing on these blends and it turns out they are Russ O. revivals of these blends. That's a horse of a different color. I'm putting Smyrna, the strongest of these blends, on my list.

 

[condorlover1]

@ mso489 I guess you have been living away from the world for a while as this has been kicking around the forums for almost a year. Standard Tobacco who own the trade mark to John Cotton's among other blends approached Russ O to recreate these blends so they would be as near to the original blends as possible. There is a video interview with Russ O and Dan on the subject at www.standardtobacco.com or on the Youtube.com web site and it can be found by searching under 'John Cotton's Tobacco'. I think you will find the reviews of Smyrna has been universally positive and I believe P&C the distributor have pretty much sold out the first run of tins and have re-ordered which bodes well for the future of the brand.

 

[mso489]

condor, yes life has thrown a few distractions in my path. Thanks for the back story and update. And sorry to turn up so uninformed. I have read an account or two of how Russ analyzes and reconstructs classic blends, and that is pretty fascinating, literally counting the component pieces of leaf in a particular blend to come up with proportions. It's almost forensic. Really cool. Despite my Christmas tobacco haul, I may have to order some Smyrna.

 

[prairiedruid]

Smyrna is definitely my favorite. John Cotton is going to be the tobacco crawl for February and they were saying pipes and cigars will have a bundle special for it around Jan. 20.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Every time I passed Russ or Dan Johnson in the hallways at the WCPS I bowed my head and murmured "Gents, thanks for Smyrna"!

I think it's lovely stuff, which I've put in the cupboard for 2017 smoking.