I was digging through my pipe cabinet when I found some old tins of Prince Albert I had found in a Michigan antique shop when I was visiting my parents but I had forgotten about. When I picked them up I felt weight in them that I hadn't noticed before. I opened the one with the tax stamps on it first, a tin from 1954 or thereabouts, I didn't find PA, but I did find a pouch of Bull Durham, with all the tags and papers still intact, inside the label was a handwritten note "From Joe Hance to Frank Calif April 1978". The second tin of PA is dated around 1960, no later than 1962, had still has the waxed paper wrapper with all the tobacco in it. The wrapper is advertising that you can mail 10 wrappers and $2 in and receive a Dr. Grabow pipe. Planning on re-hydrating and giving it a smoke.
Funny what happens when you are trying to find your trade era clay pipe you know you have buried somewhere.
Funny what happens when you are trying to find your trade era clay pipe you know you have buried somewhere.