An amazing Facebook marketplace find - a still sealed cutter top tin of Balkan Sobranie. I was wondering if anyone could help with the age - it still has the address for Albert Weinberg rather than Sobranie Ltd.
Balkan Sobranie tin
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The only way I could guess the age is to come over and help you sample the contents. JK congrats on an excellent find though. Im curious so Ill do some searching, If I find anything conclusive I’ll report back.
According to this, 50s to 60s:
Collection APM 18.434
pipemuseum.nl
I would have thought 50s at the very latest but will do some more digging.
In fact, I just found the excellent article by @jguss which implies this tin is 1938!
1938 is exactly right. Here’s a link to the article: https://pipedia.org/images/3/31/Appendix+on+Dating+Sobranie+Tins+v+1+10+12.pdf
I should add that slight lags in using up label inventory might let that date slip a bit but not by very much.
I should add that slight lags in using up label inventory might let that date slip a bit but not by very much.
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Amazing. I hope you will open it and smoke it. Take some more pictures to post if you do. Cheers!
Yep, the final test will be smoking it. You will definitely want to be listening for the "woosh" when you stick in the cutter. Or you could try to sell it for big bucks if you so chose.
It'll definitely get smoked rather than sold, but it's also definitely one to share. I'll save it for the right time!