Love old tin art!

[expatpipe]

This has to be one of my favorites. Would love to have this tin someday. But, they go too expensive when they do show up on ebay. (

 

[collin]

Briar Bully, I think you'd enjoy a book called Tobacco Tins and Their Prices by Al Bergevin. I got it at Half.com for about $6.

Two hundred and thirty pages of nothing but photos of old tins. Some are cigar tins, chewing tobacco tins and snuff tins.

Most are black and white and so-so photos with prices from the 1980's

And a very few are in color. Very few.

 

[yoru]

250 USD in the 80s? That's like a 650 dollar tin in today's money!

 

[pappy]

Now that's my kind of book!

 

[expatpipe]

oh wow I've got to order that book!

 

[collin]

I gotta tell you; out of what seems to be a thousand photos, probably 990 of them are black & white,.......only 15 are high quality color.
But, if you look around it can be had for just a few bucks.
Happy hunting! :mrgreen:

 

[unclearthur]

I need to find a copy myself!

 

[collin]

:mrgreen: No need to do it all by yourself Uncle Arthur, I'll help:
http://www.half.ebay.com/

 

[fred]

This is a fun place as well...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sludgeulper/sets/72157611304343162/

 

[unclearthur]

I get it!! Revenge on the enabler ! LOL!!

 

[collin]

You don't miss a trick, do you? *wink* :mrgreen:

 

[unclearthur]

LOL!!!

 

[juni]

If we go with modern tins I've always liked this one:

Beautiful tin art for a nasty tasting tobacco. :lol:

 

[oldjazzlover]

It's not that bad is it Juni?

 

[juni]

SL was one of the first tobaccos I tried. I opened the tin and was greeted with "old leather jacket" smell. So I figured, surely it must taste better than it smells and lit it up. It tasted like smoking burning hair. :D
I've realized I'm not a latakia person.

 

[mikethepipe]

I've found that too,juni; just gave away a tin of "punchbowle" ( :mrgreen: green,feeling sick face ughhh) Mike

 

[cornguy]

Tommy, thanks for the posting those page views. They're great. Real Americana.

I wonder what "Possum" tobacco tasted like. Hard to imagine that as someone's "go-to smoke."

 

[sparroa]

I paid most attention to that Possum tin, too. Something about it intrigues me! I wish our branding strategies were that simple today. I love it in a bizarre kind of way.

 

[menckenite]

Tommy, thanks for the book suggestion.
Fred, great link and some really neat images of bygone tins.