…that they used for a few years are SOO so much better than the cardboard. In the early-mid 2010s, then circa 2019 they went back to cardboard tubes and added the “Classic” to everything.
Every time I see them old stock in random tobacco shops, I nab them. For example, the Dental really compares to Tops Scotch, but you couldn’t tell that from a cardboard tin.
I recently found a 4.65oz sealed W.E. Garrett unopened plastic tin on eBay and jumped at the chance to nab it. The Tube Rose and Tops Sweet pictured I found in a tobacco shop in a little town I’d never been to before and was pleasantly surprised because Tops Sweet has eluded me in the wild thus far. The prices being from 5-6 years ago, were much lower than Food Lion & Ingles, too!!
Does anybody else feel the same? (I don’t have to tell you but if you can still find them around you, I’m always game to trade!)
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Small edit, I mean in 2019 they went BACK to the cardboard tubes from plastic. I want to say judging by when the date codes on the bottom are from they used plastic for a handful of years in the mid-2010s.
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This is a little late, sorry, but I have not seen the cardboard tins in over a decade now, at least in my area.
I agree with you about the all-plastic tins, they are better for the product (the Tube Rose version in particular should be a point of pride to the manufacturer… sturdy as all hell!). I find that I would prefer they return to the all-metal version of the cans (as they used when I started American snuff at the age of 8 years old) if they want to go with a “classic” theme.
If I was to see a cardboard snuff tin today, I would assume it to be old as hell and a “must buy” for the purpose of nostalgia.
I would have thought the same, but any of the cardboard tins that say “Classic” are definitely recent. All of mine sport date codes on the bottom between 2019-2021.
