Best Tin Art?

[Mike N]

Yuck. Not a collectible I’d want in my house of other peoples’ misery, likely wholly unrelated to smoking a tobacco pipe on occasion.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Yuck. Not a collectible I’d want in my house of other peoples’ misery, likely wholly unrelated to smoking a tobacco pipe on occasion.

To be disgusted with these is playing into exactly how they want you to react. I say put these images on tshirts, make these tins collectors... show these tobacco Nazis that their plan has backfired. If non-smokers start complaining about us wearing this shit n tshirts, they will stop it.

 

[Mike N]

Well, the good news is I was able to find a few tins of Cabbies on a U.S. website. I can’t wait to try it.

 

[fireground_piper]

I like the label on Blockade Runner a lot as a classy look. I also do like the Two Friends label redesign as a more modern style label I like. The older one was very non-descript and never did much for me.

 

[Mike N]

Here is just a small sample of tins I keep at the office. The rest are at my home and cabin. I did gift about a dozen to a friend/tobacconist for decoration to use.

I believe the Tom Keene can held cigars, but it was too cool not to pick up at the flea market. Since Einstein smoked Revelation, I keep that tin nearby and hope it makes me smarter.

 

[Mike N]

I plan on adding an empty tin of this one to my collection soon

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I have many favorites, I suppose. McClelland certainly had some great tin art. But since I don't feel like digging one out for a photo, I settled for this, which is also super cool. I'm also about to open it!

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I don't know why they changed the color of the oranges when they changed the blend name.
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I prefer this version of it.

 

[BriarBrook]

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second this. the perfect tin. and the flavor text just adds so much.

 

[Dave760]

I love the retro-futurism label on this one.

 

[boston]

Old C&D when Craig and Patty ran it. I forgot their artist's name but their tin art was certainly worthy of attention. In a comic book way.

Have a ton of it in the cellar. (Some drying out). Fun.

 

[camaguey]

In my opinion , O.W. Larsen old tins are the most eye catching.

 

[Zamora]

There is almost something perversely appealing about collecting a set of tins with the most gruesome, horrific, and stomach turning images—it would make for an interesting, weird, and odd collection. I could see compiling a set like that, but there are so many pipes, blends, books, posters, manuscripts, records, toys, etc. I’d rather get first.

Graphic image warnings have actually been good for cigarette pack collectors because it gives them more things to collect

 

[BingBong]

Graphic image warnings have actually been good for cigarette pack collectors because it gives them more things to collect

In Greece, the guys all buy cigarettes with smoking while pregnant warnings, means they're off the hook.

Last year, I got the eyes.

 

[Zamora]

In Greece, the guys all buy cigarettes with smoking while pregnant warnings, means they're off the hook.

Last year, I got the eyes.

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I must say putting graphic warning labels on pipe tobacco is just plain barbaric, they'd never dream of putting a liver with cirrhosis on a bottle of liquor

 

[Pip'n'Piper]

I must say putting graphic warning labels on pipe tobacco is just plain barbaric, they'd never dream of putting a liver with cirrhosis on a bottle of liquor

Oh yes they would, they're already talking about doing that.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7422379

 

[Chasing Embers]

Old C&D when Craig and Patty ran it.

The golden age of C&D.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yuck. Not a collectible I’d want in my house of other peoples’ misery, likely wholly unrelated to smoking a tobacco pipe on occasion.

That's why tins are disposable. Jar the tobacco and trash the tin. It's just a mass produced label and no longer art unlike the painted tins of years ago. Collecting them would be akin to hoarding Twinkie wrappers.

 

[LOREN]

I don't know why they changed the color of the oranges when they changed the blend name.
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Maybe they're using a new brand of oranges for the flavor now.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Maybe they're using a new brand of oranges for the flavor now.

Orange had a mild zest flavoring and the new stuff tastes like orange candy. They probably changed the tin to reflect the no flavoring names in blend names law.