Has anyone been in contact with Griff? http://www.snuffbox.org.uk/ I consider him to be my mentor/ snuff guru as he had the first website dedicated to nasal snuff and helped me to be grounded in the snuff world. à chacun son gout JP

When I owned this site I emailed him with an invitation to join us, which he didn’t reply to. At some point after that he applied and either me or one of the mods - I don’t recall - set up an account for him. I don’t think he ever posted. I share your respect - a real pioneer of online snuff appreciation. I hope he is still going strong - he must be in his eighties now.

@ jpsage and Snuffster: August 2011 I got a message from him. Yesterday I tried to contact him again. So far no reaction. Jaap Bes.

Thanks Jaap.

Last logged in here April 2011 @Phillips_Griffiths So less recently than Jaap’s contact.

Thanks, notice his site has not been updated in a while and I have not e-mailed him in a couple years. Last post at Graeme’s on Aug 12, 2012

Sorry. Aug. 3 Post of Wilson’s 275 th anniversary.

I haven’t been in contact with Griff since I jumped ship from: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/snuffboxthenasalsnuffclub/ and started posting here.

Snuffing IDL which Griff indicated was most like the original HDT although he likes Wilsons 22

@jpsavage That’s correct. We had another member @PhilipS who was near to the knowledge of Griff. He hasn’t been around lately but you might want to read some of his past posts. They are full of fascinating old facts and lore. He often said the same thing, since SG used to be the contract maker for at least that one F&T snuff. Its a good one, and so is the modern HDT, but I prefer the Wilsons No. 22 also.

Thanks. I have known Griff since almost day one. Just would like to sit and chat with him. perhaps…

But I have never made it to the UK yet

I wondered at one point if PhilipS was the professor, but he denied it. Certainly one of the most knowledgeable people around but, as so often happens, he just stopped posting one day. I put PhilipS and Troutsroker as the most encyclopaedic members we have had; knowledge of a real, deep, studied nature.

Bad news. Rest in peace, professor. Let´s have a pinch to his memory.

That’s a shame to hear. His website was of real interest to me when I got back into snuff. It’s a pity he never got into joining in here, we could all have benefited from his knowledge.

Really nice picture of him in the link there, with the great hat and a beer, I’ll now take a pinch in his memory. RIP

RIP Griff… Before I found Griff’s snuff site, I thought that I was some sort of freak – the only one out there who indulged in a pinch of snuff these days.

RIP hard. This man left a very important mark in my approach to snuff taking and appreciation. The stories and explanations on his website were entertaining and informative, a mark of how good a teacher he must have been. “A one-year course devoted to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason was the centrepiece of the final year of the Philosophy degree. […] Being as contrary as he was, Griff did not provoke much surprise, only alarm, with his proposal in the mid-1980s that the Department abandon the teaching of ethics, on the grounds that modern moral philosophy, his own contributions included, was worthless” As a Philosophy student I have to say this ideas were great and he seemed to be a brave teacher more worried about communicating knowledge than about being liked. Hats off to Pr. Griffiths!

Griff stood at the beginning of Stg. de Kralingse Snuif en Specerijen Compagnie De Ster en De Lelie. He was the one that advised us on the production and the name of our first produced snuff the Latakia Ao1860 and other historical snuffs we revived. We remember him reverently. Jaap Bes.

A man with his own, well deserved place in snuff history and a pioneering internet apologist for the art - R.I.P Professor.