Your Favourite Tin Art?

[mikefu]

Grousemoor and SPC Potlatch.

I love the Potlatch art.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I love the Potlatch art.

Agree with SPC Potlatch as well!

Also a big fan of the tin art from the Frog Morton Series, Xmas cheer and 40th Anny. I find the Dunhill and Esoterica presentations very classy as well. I also like the classic simplicity of Rattray's labels, and Boswell's Northwoods label is also very nice.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

Bill Bailey and I share a birthday so I'd have to say this is my favorite (I've had it in bulk but serendipitously picked up a tin just in time for Mail Call Monday):

EDIT: grammar

 

[kcghost]

I always liked this one But there are so many to love:

 

[logs]

My favorite is the old Skiff tin, back when the guy still had a pipe in his mouth.
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Wow, I love this one. Wish they'd never updated the tin. The new Sam Gawith art looks silly.

 

[logs]

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Their is so much great tin art out their its hard to pick, but FMC will always be my favorite

I never cared for the Mclelland tins that had cutsey craft-fair style art on them. But their classic whale emblem is amazing.

 

[logs]

WOW That's some old tin art work, especially for the Peterson. IMHO it looks a whole lot better than the present day labels ..

I know! I love those old Peterson tins. The updated Peterson tin art is too generic.

 

[lawdawg]

Lots of cool rare / unknown old tin art in this thread.

As for tins / blends that were recently produced, I've gotta give a +1 to Frog Morton Cellar. I love the drunken Frog in his cellar with his whiskey, pipes, and little row boat. Another favorite is the old Nightcap tins before the art was just a round sticker:

 

[cosmicfolklore]

They were all much better than anything made today, back in the day.

 

[rdoss16]

Never tried it, but always liked the tin art. Seems like a friendly chap.

love this tin but love your avatar more. from one deadhead to another!

 

[mso489]

My two favorites, already noted, are the McClelland's breaching whale in various colors on different blends, with gilt highlights, and the Frog Morton Cellar grotto with the rowboat moored at the pier in the underground river. I'll always love the Granger pointer dog, and many other tin art examples, some for the drawing and some for the type faces, etc. I like the understatement of the old Dunhill and Peterson blends, among many others, just the type.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

both the Dunhill Royal Yacht and Standard mixure looked fine until the EU warning label pict.regulations spoled all this ,,

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Capstan & Erinmore tins were (are?)delight to look at

 

[burleyboy]

both the Dunhill Royal Yacht and Standard mixure looked fine until the EU warning label pict.regulations spoled all this ,,

By the way, it just came to my mind that Pfeifen Huber of Munich sells a blend with a sticker in the tin to cover up the warning labels. I wonder, why this isn't more popular....

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

@burleyboy, Julius, Yes I have seen those being in use on the YTube by one content creator''Pipe&tobak'

 

[burleyboy]

This method should be more popular. I know this just from that particular blend. The blend goes by the name of "Kurt Eisner", a Burley, created by HU.

 

[lawdawg]

By the way, it just came to my mind that Pfeifen Huber of Munich sells a blend with a sticker in the tin to cover up the warning labels. I wonder, why this isn't more popular....

Genius! I'd love to see this more often.

 

[lelik]

 

[skeeter456]

Mine has to be frog morton cellar

 

[luigi]

My first. It burnt but has left a nice memory. x)
Cornell&Diehl has some nice tinart as well.