http://www.snuffstore.co.uk/rumneys-mentholyptus-snuff-p-781.html

also stok snuff never heard of that one before

It’s a Polish snuff that launched last year.

Dr. Rumneys was one of my first snuffs I had the pleasure of taking…Not forgeting J&H Wilson’s as a young boy.

I think I first had Dr Rumney’s when I was living in Regensburg in 1976. Like John, I started with J&H Wilson’s a few years earlier.

i have this one, the artwork is slithly diffrent, i got it from a friend who was in Dublin

I guess I’ll have to make another snuff order soon!

It has been on the market for some time. Until now it has only been sold in smash boxes. Glad to see it get a proper container.

Dr. Rumney’s was around for a very long time. I remember in the 1960s the hinged tin as well as the slogan - “top of its class for nearly a century”. If the claim is correct then it was first marketed sometime in the 1870s. Illingworths of Kendal manufactured a relatively large selection of snuffs in the 60s including the usual S.P, Irish High Toast, Jockey Club etc as well as specialities such as Snisin Cambria (Scot’s spelling is correct) Cock of the North, Fleming Special and Kendal Castle. Later they manufactured the popular Kenglow and K67 Medicated. After their disastrous fire in the early 1980s (when the Aynam Mill was destroyed) the company started again from another site, seemed well on the road to recovery and then vanished as quickly as the Cheshire cat in Wonderland. J&H Wilsons (Imperial) took over a number of their snuffs including Mentholyptus. Anyone know for sure the story behind Illingworth’s final dissolution?

Dr. Rumney’s snuff was in steel tins, reminiscent of the tins we got our Gramophone needles in, so we could play our 78’s records. I used to cheat, and file them sharp. to re use them.

@ PhilipS:- Just let the fire burn. does that make sense?

The little picture of the good Doctor on the tins always amused me. His bedside manner must have been something to behold.

Imagine as a young child and your parents taking you to see the Doctor, he’d frighten you to death!

@SnuffHead yeah, you have it right - steel tins. mine is also some nice silver shining one with a more brownish-bordeau colored label and the face of the doctor in the middle.

Yes the original tins where the same as you got the old gramophone needles in to play the old 78 rpm. records.

Bloody hell Dr Rumney makes Harold Shipman look like a cuddly toy lol. Stefan

@ Walrus1985, yep. Another Doctor I’m so glad I never met!

I’d say he’s comparable to Benard’s creepy monk, haha. I’d like to try this snuff.

Can’t help thinking, he looks a little like Wain Rooney…

And probably equally qualified in medicine.

LMAOff, LOL!

Pmsl, absolutely! Stefan

Well I’ve just tried this re incarnation. My overhaul verdict is good. They have got the taste about right, as far as I can remember. But the grind is far to coarse. This is a typical South African grind. But it is so nice. Edit: Here’s the tin-

A bit late to add this - but anyway - the tin i got from this mentoined friend of mine was all round and the label print was a earth-like brown. It is the same guy on it but i guess the used some digital filter on the old picture since the one i own looks more like a painting then a photo. Unfortunatly, i am out to Berlin for the next three months (i am here since 1 week) and can´t take a picture of the tin.

Back while in high school i went to the local tobacco shoppe and bought this. I ACTUALLY found a nearly full tin in my stuff dating back to those days. Alas the scent is long gone, My alltime favorite snuff. great during fall and winter. LOVE THIS. I wish Wilsons sm 500 or others were close to it. Not saying they are not. been so long hard to compare

Dr. Rumney looks remarkably like a pediatrition at my church. Dr. Rumney is probably just wearing his stern “You haven’t been taking your medicine, have you?” face.