Historic Tobaccos

[tomdavis]

I enjoy history and so was pleased to find a modern blend that perhaps my ancestors smoked: Gettysburg by the Virginia Tobacco Co. I came across, and now ordered, Founding Fathers by C&D. Both blends, so they say, contain elements of blends used in the past. I have read that we likely would not like to "step back" to the crude fashion of the tobacco in those days but I like the idea of getting at least a sense of what pipe smokers liked then. Does anyone know of other blends like those that have a style or components used at a particular time in the past?

 

[pawpaw]

C&D has a couple more Crooner is supose to be a blend Bing likeked and Epiphany is supose to be like Revelations

and Princde Albert and Carter Hall have been around for a couple of generations

 

[drsam]

They probably smoked something like this.

 

[pawpaw]

dang Dr Sam i cant tell what that pipe looks like

 

[olderthandirt]

hehe

Not a pipe there pawpaw, it's a tobacco twist.

 

[colorduke]

I think Lilbrown still carries them,also try smoking some coffee grounds also i read they did that in the civil war.

 

[tomdavis]

Gettysberg is made with coffee grounds as the confederate soldiers did to stretch the tobacco. It is my fav at the moment.

 

[skylonrow]

It would be interesting to see if you cant find some blending recipes on the web, or indeed at your library or something. To find the recipes of tobaccos that time forgot, or are no longer in production.
Many tobacconist and websites now offer custom blends, and so you could ask for one using the recipes you have found.

 

[buster]

I was thinking the same thing Drsam.

 

[sweetbriar]

think some some of the samuel gawith blens have been around for awhile..

i'm still tryin to fathom.."manufacturers of fine tobacco since 1792"

Geo washington's second term..