Oldest Tobacco blend In Continuous Production?

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Sobrbiker

Lifer
Jan 7, 2023
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Casa Grande, AZ
Guys keep mentioning Samuel Gawith as an old maker. You would think that after all these years they could produce a good blend, but after buying and smoking some of their "Balkan Flake" I'm not so sure. :(
Somebody, somewhere, thinks that it’s the absolute best blend ever I’m sure.
 

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Lifer
Nov 26, 2018
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41,190
RTP, NC. USA
This gent had been smoking the same stuff that Neanderthals used to sniff at since they came out of the cave. Pretty sure it's no vegetative matter since no one saw the drawing of flowers on the wall.

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Searock Fan

Lifer
Oct 22, 2021
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5,943
Southern U.S.A.
This gent had been smoking the same stuff that Neanderthals used to sniff at since they came out of the cave. Pretty sure it's no vegetative matter since no one saw the drawing of flowers on the wall.

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I've seen pics of this character before. He is gone now, but supposedly he was the dirtiest man in the world and had not bathed in decades. p.s. Cool pipe. Looks like he is trying to keep the worms from crawling out. cray
 

bullet08

Lifer
Nov 26, 2018
10,098
41,190
RTP, NC. USA
I've seen pics of this character before. He is gone now, but supposedly he was the dirtiest man in the world and had not bathed in decades. p.s. Cool pipe. Looks like he is trying to keep the worms from crawling out. cray
Yupe. He died soon after taking the bath. Decades of his immune protection was washed a way by do good people ending in his early demise.
 

jpmcwjr

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May 12, 2015
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Capstan has been around a long time. A huge quantity of it was loaded onto the Titanic, almost certainly not in tins. 500 pounds comes to mind as the amount, but it could have been more.
 
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Apr 26, 2012
3,571
7,865
Washington State
I have no clue what the oldest tobacco would be, but I do agree that what we're smoking today is not the same as what was being produced from long ago. Like Sablebrush said, it's clones of clones and the long standing tobacco's are in name only.
 

chilllucky

Lifer
Jul 15, 2018
1,200
3,106
Chicago, IL, USA
scoosa.com
By my (unreliable) memory of "Making Tobacco Bright" by Barbra Hahn - branded tobaccos of consistent recipes did not appear in America until after our civil war.

Previous to then, local farmers or the small trading post/general store closest to them produced ropes and plugs for sale locally.

The whole leaf commodity crop bound for refining in England and Europe is more likely to yield the answer to the OP's question.
 
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