Is Samuel Gawith Irish D Light the old F&T High Dry Toast?

Does anyone know? I found the following over on snuson.com: “F&T HDT is a WIN for sure! You should give Wilsons & Co (Sharrow) Irish High Toast No.22 a try. Also, if you like HDT i’m sure you’ll love Samuel Gawith Irish D Light, that was the original F&T HDT i think, so they say!” Also, does anyone have some of the SG Irish D Original? Can I buy a sample? :smiley:

There is a thread on here somewhere, and I want to say that yes it is.

Here are a few threads: http://snuffhouse.org/discussion/comment/137838#Comment\_137838 http://snuffhouse.org/discussion/283/f-tranter-s-irish-d-h-toast http://snuffhouse.org/discussion/comment/67570#Comment\_67570 And you might want to dig through the postings of @PhilipS http://snuffhouse.org/profile/comments/1055/PhilipS

@cstokes4 Thanks for the info!!! :smiley:

If I may be permitted a question or two on the complex issue of Toast History, hasn’t there been a slight mix-up here? Didn’t S. Gawith once make all G. Smith’s snuffs? I can vouch for the total superiority of original G. Smith’s Irish High Toast, a fabulous creation which was absolutely unlike S. Gawith’s current Irish D Light which - to me at least - has an acrid and quite unpleasant smell and is much darker than the G. Smith’s original. I really wish S. Gawith would revive G. Smith’s original recipe - there’s surely room for more than one toast in their extensive range, and G. Smith’s Irish High Toast was the best toast ever. Only G. Hoggarth’s Irish D approaches it in colour and smell, if not in complexity. And did S. Gawith ever manufacture F&T Dry High Toast (only WoS, surely…)? This is again quite different - very pleasant and complex but needs to be decanted into a snuff-box or glass container to lose the metallic taste from the tube. So: is S. Gawith Irish D Light the old F&T High Dry Toast? I’d still tend to say: no.

Like bears are of the pig family. They are still totally different animals.

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Yeah they are all different

No, they are all different.

likely since the question is who made the snuff back in the day. And I don’t know but it very well could have been a Gawith.