I bought a snuff today called Gallahers WIT & WISDOM menthol snuff. I can’t find any info about it anywhere. Has anyone tried or heard of this? It comes in the crappy little wilson medicated no9 tin. I purchased it for a dollar. Its a medium grind, dry, mentholated snuff. However, It has a very interesting scent. It almost reminds me of a mentholated scotch with less smokeyness and more of a robust tobacco flavour. I would give it a solid 8/10 rating. If anyone wants to trade for some (my tobacconist has about 20 tins) I will take anything, especially Dholakia snuffs for my collection. I can also get original Helme (in metal tin) DeVoe’s Sweet, and Lorrilards. PM me for details! also, the tin has a red lid and a gold bottom. The top says Gallahers WIT &WISDOM menthol snuff. The back has a sticker that says Snuff US distributers JAMES B. RUSSEL INC. 108 South Ban Brunt Street Englewood, New jersey, 07631 MADE IN UNITED KINGDOM
Holy shytes!
I don’t think that has been made in many years. Yeah I’ll trade for some. That was an Irish toast with menthol. I don’t know which part is the wit and which part is the wisdom. I’ve only heard the old timers talk about it around here. Gallaher’s is still in business but does not make snuff. I might even want to trade for some metal Helme tins. Check that Lorillard’s is it the Sweet, or one of the out of production ones?
I went back to the store and counted exactly 13 tins of this wondersnuff. Unfortunatly I’m a poor college kid and wont have the money to buy all of the snuff until monday. I won’t lie, the snuff is pretty old, and I’m sure has lost a lot of its luster. However, It still has a great taste, and a very unique one at that. I’m dissapointed at Xanders news, because i’m really starting to like this one a lot! If anyone wants to trade, I will take anything I don’t already have but, like I said before I would like some dholakia or american scotches. PM me for details! I will try to post some pics of it too. They have a 10 tin package and 3 seperate tins left. EDIT: The tins are 4.97 grams
So far on the list I have Xander Ermtony Cstokes4 Toffenose Orion Snuffster Satyr I am going to wait a bit and see how many actually want to trade for this before I decide how many to give each person. Once I think I have a full list, we can work out the trade details. I would like to mail these all at once if possible.
Hi mrmaroon - I’d like one of those as well please!
Wow, you have really discovered something special. Wit and Wisdom is a mentholated high dried toast. It had a very limited distribution in the North of England, Lord alone knows how the store came by this: I can only assume its been on the shelves for years. I have a book from the 80’s where this is advertised but I have never seen any. I do have a single tin of its brother snuff; a plain HDT. I have some very interesting snuffs to trade if you are interested.
It is such a shame they don’t make this anymore! I could easily let it become my favorite. You guys are going to be blown away when you try it! The tin smell is a really spicy rich woody tobacco smell, with a VERY slight menthol too it. The menthol really takes the back-seat in this snuff, I don’t know if that was intenden, or because of its old age. When snuffed, I get a light burn, and the interesting smokey taste takes charge. The menthol is really very subtle. I’m going to change my prev review and give this a 9.5/10. It is just that good! I’m happy I get to spread the joy to you fellas! I wouldn’t mind keeping it all to myself, but I am curious to see some of your reviews on it as well. I am going to shut down any more trades. I will purchase the snuff next week and start packaging it up! I must leave now, I have to get my boat out of the lake before they drain it. I will be back sunday to work out trade details with you all. Have a good one! -Caleb
This is officially it guys. All request are closed. I will pick it up tomorrow and get the envelopes/bubble wrap ect.
Dam looks like I’m a day late and a dollar short!if someone backs out of a deal let me know Mr. I got Scotches and dholakias too.
As of now, Xander, Cstokes, Ermtony, Toffeenose and Satyrs snuffs are packed and will be shipped wednesday.
That’s great! Thanks. I’m really looking forward to trying that one. Your parcel will be in the post today. It’s all packed and ready.
The mail is going out today! Snuffster, Orion, do you still want to trade?
trade parcel sent off this afternoon, mrmaroon!
Sweet! I sent all of the packages out at 1PM EST wednesday! Snuffster, Orion, do you still want to trade? I will hold until tomorrow. After that Im moving on to the next people on the list.
mrmaroon- I must apologize as I’ve had a busy week and have not made it to the post office yet. I will get your package mailed out tomorrow. Sorry for the delay.
No problem! Yours should be there soon!
I have to add a caveat, though - the postal strikes over here are delaying mail sent overseas, so you may have to wait a bit…
Aye, how long you think?
Your package should be with you tomorrow or Monday, Caleb. I believe it went 2 or 3 day.