What Is It, And Would You Smoke It ?

[Heypat]

Just purchased 2 estate pipes on the auction site named after the bay. Pipes showed up today with a couple of extras not listed in the auction. The seller included a nice box, tamper, MM cob with no stem and a zip lock bag with a bonnet full of tobacco (no tin). pipes were listed as a local estate sale buy, I assume the seller just shipped the lot they bought at the estate sale.

so back to the question in the listed in the topic what is the tobacco and would you smoke it?

Data points:

based on the bonnet (or coffee filter LOL) which is round I am assuming it came in a conventional round tin.

tobacco is still moist, would probably dry it for 20 minutes before smoking. So i Doubt it’s really old

really smoky, heavy on the Latakia, smells delicious

I opened some jars and confirmed it is none of the following:

early morning
old dark fired
nightcap
HH old dark fired

It is not a cake but the smoky essence is much stronger than the following crumble cake tobaccos:
plumb pudding
russ tasty cake
Mississippi River

Entertaining some job offers which would require a pre employment drug test. I know the odds are low it’s laced with anything but the questions are:

1 what is it?

2 would you smoke it ?

 

[Streeper541]

It looks like tobacco. It doesn't look moldy and you already said it's still moist. Give it a shot!

 

[beefeater33]

Hell yes! Why wouldn't you smoke it??

 

[anotherbob]

nope but that's because it's yours. If it was mine I'd smoke it. As far as the chances of it being laced, that's would be very expensive for a prank that you never know if it actually even went through or got to see. Technically better chance the pipes where used for something illegal then the tobacco having anything extra in it.
Then again it might be a genuine estate find and who knows maybe that tobacco specifically is what killed the original owner.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Why not ask the seller what tin it came from?…and yes I would smoke it

 

[Chasing Embers]

heavy on the Latakia

Nope

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

I had a similar post awhile back. Purchased a pipe rack with a side jar for tobacco that came full of an unknown ribbon cut (to my suprise).

A cost benefit analysis determined the risks substantially outweighed any gain.

I didn't know the tobacco would come with the purchase, so I didn't lose on what was bargained for.

 

[anotherbob]

I had a similar post awhile back. Purchased a pipe rack with a side jar for tobacco that came full of an unknown ribbon cut (to my suprise).

A cost benefit analysis determined the risks substantially outweighed any gain.

I didn't know the tobacco would come with the purchase, so I didn't lose on what was bargained for.

worth noting the tobacco you found was not in as good shape as the one in this post. What you had could have been in there since people first started selling tobacco.

 

[Heypat]

Any ideas on what it is?

 

[verporchting]

I love a good mystery. Smoke it! Then you can try to identify it afterwards. Should keep you occupied for a couple years, lol.

 

[North of the Border Piper]

Ask the seller, no?

 

[Heypat]

Ask the seller, no?

Seller bought at an estate sale and has no clue.