Future Collectible Pipe Tobaccos, Which Ones?

[sjmiller]

always wanted to try it , heard it compared to Gauloises french cigs , miss that stuff

Back in my cigarette days, I liked unfiltered Camels. So when I saw this stuff years ago, supposedly the same recipe used to make Picayune cigarettes, I had to try it. It made me it‘s b*tch in less than a fourth of a bowl. Plan on trying it again. Just not today. Rest of the month doesn’t seem to have an opening either.

 

[kcghost]

Find blender who runs a small business and keep theirs. Wait 40 years and you will be rewarded.

 

[mso489]

The correct answer, so far as I know, is that this is unknowable. McClelland was intensely popular so that few thought it would go out of business entirely and not sell the brand to someone else (who may or may not have tried to replicate their original glory).

But to play along, I guess an idea would be to identify a brand name that is a premium name but not in vast production. G.L. Pease, Esoterica, and maybe some special editions might be prospects. Some blends might be clunkers and others might be winners, like buying stocks to hold and sell at some appointed future date.

 

[anotherbob]

All commercial pipe tobacco is pretty close to guaranteed being scarce in the future. This whole hobby/habit/vice is going to become an encyclopedia entry in a few decades I think.

and I think it's on an up swing. It's funny years ago my random pipe sightings were almost always older now they're youngesters

 

[Alejo R.]

Maybe this has been asked before, but I am curious to know what people think will be the next round of collectible pipe tobaccos. As in, they are currently available but may be scarce in the future. Any ideas?

Simple. You must identify who are the opinion leaders in the pipe community and buy what they smoke.

 

[AcesAndEights]

I thought every small batch limited release was collectible and valuable? They’re not!?! Dammit….

 

[brandaves]

Simple. You must identify who are the opinion leaders in the pipe community and buy what they smoke.

@JimInks had better watch out for his Edward G. Robinson methinks...

 

[warren]

Easy! It'll be a well a loved blend that goes out of production or is sood to one of the mega-tobacco companies with the usual changes. Now, all you must do is figure out which of the many blends fits this profile.

 

[canucklehead]

Pre-Dominican Carter Hall in the big tubs.

 

[sablebrush52]

Easy! It'll be a well a loved blend that goes out of production or is sood to one of the mega-tobacco companies with the usual changes. Now, all you must do is figure out which of the many blends fits this profile.

All of them...

 

[TheIronMonkey]

With the war on flavored tobaccos, probably aromatics. If they go, the entire pipe tobacco market will fall with them.

My thinking exactly, which prompted me to squirrel away a pound of BCA a few months ago, so that I can partake in the future when the mood strikes.

 

[Chasing Embers]

My thinking exactly, which prompted me to squirrel away a pound of BCA a few months ago, so that I can partake in the future when the mood strikes.

With my recently discovered love of Borkum Riff, I've been putting it away.

 

[Chasing Embers]

@JimInks had better watch out for his Edward G. Robinson methinks...

He saw to its resurrection once already before.

 

[bassbug]

What’s an encyclopedia?

A set of reference books that becomes obsolete the moment you get married because you wife knows everything.

 

[Elric]

The correct answer, so far as I know, is that this is unknowable. McClelland was intensely popular so that few thought it would go out of business entirely and not sell the brand to someone else (who may or may not have tried to replicate their original glory).

But to play along, I guess an idea would be to identify a brand name that is a premium name but not in vast production. G.L. Pease, Esoterica, and maybe some special editions might be prospects. Some blends might be clunkers and others might be winners, like buying stocks to hold and sell at some appointed future date.

+1 on this. It's like being able to predict which IPO stocks will ultimately result in successful companies for the long run.

 

[woodsroad]

Easy.
The blends that you woulda shoulda coulda cellared, but didn’t.

 

[condorlover1]

@woodsroad : Autographed tins of War Horse rub your own?

 

[BarrelProof]

I’d hate to go deep on a blend because I thought it would disappear only to find out it didn’t disappear, but all the blends I liked did.

 

[vosBghos]

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Easy! It'll be a well a loved blend that goes out of production or is sood to one of the mega-tobacco companies with the usual changes. Now, all you must do is figure out which of the many blends fits this profile.

would be nice to have an in at K&K to see who they'll be acquiring next and stock up before they do

 

[mingc]

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