What Is The Most Out Of Production Tobacco In Your Collection?

[Franco Pipenbeans]

I was doing some light house cleaning of the cellar the other weekend - jars and tins, old and new; some dated precisely, others roughly.
I found a can of “Early Morning Pipe” - Dunhill not Peterson’s - with a few bowls left in it. I had no recollection of having this at all; I can’t even recall having smoked it but there it is, dated to 2015 in my own fair hand, so an old example but certainly not ancient by anybody’s definition.

It was the “out of production” part that interested me and it got me to thinking - what is the most out of production tobacco that you have in your collection?

Have you got a long gone tin of Ogden’s St Julien or a Gallaher’s Rich Dark Honeydew or two? Maybe you’re a plug man and you’ve got some Murray’s Warrior Plug knocking round next to Mick McQuaid’s example of the art form?

Maybe you’ve got some brand/s that I’ve never even heard of?

Anyway, I thought it might be an interesting question to pose.

happy pipes.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Quite a few of the previous Dunhill blends. Klondike Gold. Rotary Navy Flake. Around 30 McClelland blends. McCranies Red Flake and Red Ribbon. So nothing really ancient or mythical.

 

[jttnk]

200 lbs of Penzance in Mylar, FS…….. just kidding!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ok, these plus another closet full of McClellands in boxes, but I’m not dragging the rest out for a pic.

 

[jttnk]

1 tin of Froggy On the Town
1/2 tin in a jar of Vintage Syrian
2 tins of Dunhill Aperitif
none older than 2017. Not too much to speak of.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Some of the out of production blends in my cellar:
Mcclelland
McCranies
Mick McQuaide plug
Warrior plug
Sam Gawith Bracken Flake
EA Carey Dark Flake No.7
HH Mature Virginia

And quite a lot of one off special editions from various different companies.

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

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Ok, these plus another closet full of McClellands in boxes, but I’m not dragging the rest out for a pic.

?

 

[lukasstrifeson]

"Out of Production", especially how it is framed in the OP, is an extremely grey area.

Those Dunhill blends are not exactly out of production, just re-named, Peterson still produces those blends so the difference is in brand name only.

The aforementioned Penzance is also still in production no?

But then again, something like Balkan Sobranie has changed recipes but is still in production. So I would say "Balkan Sobranie" is out of production, even though there is still a blend in production with the same name...

@cosmicfolklore McC's stash on the other hand... Tasty..

 

[mingc]

"Most" out of production? Isn't that like asking who is "most" dead or"most" pregnant? Either you are or you aren't. Do you meant the oldest blend that's no longer made?

 

[wayneteipen]

I have quite a few McClelland's tins (not quite as many as cosmicfolklore but close.) Some are dated from the 90's. i have a few tins of several of the Dunhill made tobacco's like Nightcap, 965, and Deluxe Navy Rolls. There may be a few more no longer available tobacco's in my stash. Someday I'll inventory it all but not today.

 

[Elric]

Two tins of Edgeworth Sliced, about a pound of Bohemian Scandal, and a few tins of various McClelland products.

 

[didimauw]

I don't own any blends that are currently out of production. And don't plan to. I'm not a unicorn chaser.

 

[Grangerous]

SugarBarrel is Pungent. Whole cellar smells of its topping now.

 

[karam]

2 100g tins of HH Acadian Perique.

 

[Razorback]

Gallaher (Irish) Condor Plug and 2015 Motzek Strang. Set for life.

 

[Elric]

I don't own any blends that are currently out of production. And don't plan to. I'm not a unicorn chaser.

Don't have to be a unicorn chaser to have out-of-production blends. All mine were purchased while being produced.

 

[Singularis]

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Boggles the mind.

Me? I’ve got Frog Morton (3 tins) and a tin of last production Dunhill BB1938. That’s it. That’s my penalty for taking 17 years to get into the cellaring craze.

 

[sablebrush52]

The blend that got you wondering about out of productions blends isn't out of production, the tin label is.

As for actual out of production blends, off the top of my head

McClelland: 40th Anniversary, McCranies Red Ribbon and Red Flake, Tudor Castle, various Christmas Cheers going back to the '90's, 22, 24, 25, 27, 35 stave aged, Dark Star, Blackwoods Flake, Virginia Woods, Deep Hollow, Red and Black, etc, etc.

GL Pease - Raven's Wing, Bohemian Scandal, Renaissance.

Murray's - Elizabethan Mixture

MacBaren - Modern Virginia

Motzek - Strang (yes I know the new owner released something claiming to be Strang, but he's botched it)

A & C Petersen - Escudo (yes I know there's a tin bearing that name, but the contents ain't Escudo)

Brigham - Klondike Gold, and a few other Brigham blends

Warrior Plug

Mick McQuaid

Highland Sliced

HH Acadian Perique and Vintage Syrian

McConnell Blending Syrian Latakia

There's a few more items, but I don't remember what they are.

 

[sablebrush52]

I don't own any blends that are currently out of production. And don't plan to. I'm not a unicorn chaser.

None of these were unicorns when I bought them.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

None of these were unicorns when I bought them.

So you were hoarding even before that was a thing?