I thought perhaps the price tag and labels on the back may give someone who is knowledgeable about this topic a clue. My guess is early 1980s. I intend to open and smoke both of them. Thanks
Can Anyone Estimate The Approximate Dates Of These 2 Unopened Tins?
- Thread starter Mike N
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I can help, but you’re going to need to send them to my PO Box for an in hand inspection
79 cents for a 2 oz tin ?!?!? That & the fact that there's no bar code makes me think 1970s .
Not sure about the dates but the Mac Baren Latakia Blend the most inaccurately named blend ever.
Can't help with the dates, but I the tins look cool. Hopefully they've aged well, and will provide a pleasant smoke.
Mike-
According to my notes on the various eras of MacBaren's importation into the USA, Fireside Tobacco Corp. was the importer from some indeterminate date up to/through 1979.
-Troy
According to my notes on the various eras of MacBaren's importation into the USA, Fireside Tobacco Corp. was the importer from some indeterminate date up to/through 1979.
-Troy
Interesting, thank you. I've got some tins of Stockton with Fireside labels but from New Jersey.
Thanks, Troy. I was unable to find anything helpful on Fireside, and those dates narrow it down.
By the way, I picked up each of these tins at the Columbus Pipe Show last summer (a great show for vintage tins) , and if memory serves, they were among a dozen or so tins offered on the table of a private collector who had purchased a large estate lot. Because neither was a “name” most pipe tobacco collectors actively pursue (such as McClellands, etc), I’m pretty sure I gave not more than $10 each, or so. That’s why I always planned to smoke them when the weather warmed up.
Your Mac Baren tin is from between 1967-1970 inclusive, the years Fireside Tobacco was located at 125 w 24th. Before that time Fireside Tobacco Corp was at 25 w 36th Street (the latest of several earlier Manhattan addresses), and from September 1970 on they were renamed Fireside Industries Inc and located in Moonachie, NJ.
As for your other tin it's one of the "International Deluxe Tobaccos" made by World Tabac between about the mid 1970s and the mid 1980s.
As for your other tin it's one of the "International Deluxe Tobaccos" made by World Tabac between about the mid 1970s and the mid 1980s.