There is a new Samuel Gawith snuff out called Ma’s Ruin. It is a Gin & Tonic snuff, named Ma’s Ruin after the phrase “Mother’s Ruin”, a phrase which is new to me but should not be new to those across the pond. Glad to see Samuel Gawith expanding their line.
Wow. I can’t wait to get my hands on this.
The only store that I know of that carries it is Mr. Snuff.
Well I’m waiting 'til he gets a few things I want in at the same time and I’ve got an order planned. I’ll have to add this to it. Edit, Mr. Snuff seems to have a few that look new to me… Mimosa and Toffee immediately jumping out.
I found this little tidbit on the phrase: Mother’s Ruin
‘Gin Lane’ by William Hogarth. The drunken mother lets her child fall while taking snuff.
I saw this picture once in art class. It was noted that the pawn shop was being offered a kettle, an odd thing to attempt to pawn, except in times of desperation. It was also noted that the neglectful mother is apparantly symbolic of a mother seeking to abort. Gin apparantly being used to abort pregnancies. There are a lot of details in there that can be more closely analyzed. I seem to recall there was a counterpart picture for frivolius times. I wonder if this Hogarth has any relationship to the Gawith Hoggarth snuff name.
The counterpart to Gin Lane is Beer Street, intended to show the positive effects of beer drinking as opposed to the problems associated with gin drinking. 
Good old Hogarth. There’s an excellent dramatised documentary on the Channel 4 i player, dealing with his series of prints about a young woman coming to London and fallen into vice. Worth watching just for the extremely nice lady that plays his model. In Beer Street even the pawn shop owner can be seen taking a wholesome tankard of English Ale in through the hatch - another comment on gin. Hogarth may have been a little hypocritical about this though as it seems he enjoyed a touch of mothers ruin himself. Thanks for posting those fantastic prints!
oh he was just trying to score some free beer man.
Meanwhile in the states, lager beeer was being touted as a healthy drink. This was when the temperance movement was gaining strength.
The artist certainly portrays Lager Bier as a family drink. Mother is even helping baby to a small glass of beer - or so it appears. Still, this is better than Gin Street where the mother on the right is seen liberally pouring gin down baby’s throat. The Frenchman being hoisted aloft in Beer Street is replaced in another version with a fair maiden. The hand of her admirer is slipping down to her cleavage. The rosy wench is a contrast to the other hideous, syphilitic snuff-taking gin women.
In Gin Lane, is that a handsaw that guy on the left is holding?
@ Eten-eller: Yes. That’s the pawn broker. The confused look on his face is because saws and kettles are not normally things people attempt to pawn. Note he is well off and the people are poor in Gin Lane, but in Beer Street the opposite is true.
Oh dear! Had a “motivational shot” of Gin before reading this thread. (True, unfortunately…Had to gird my loins before doing laundry.) How does this one stack up to Bespoke Gin & Tonic?
@Xander: Very interesting indeed. Yeah, the Gin Lane folks look like village peasants.
Actually, the ‘lager beer is an all around good thing’ picture I posted was from a much later time period (1870s - 80s). I see where Gin Lane and Beer Street were first published in 1751 and that Henry Fielding may have commisioned Hogarth to assist with propaganda for the Gin Act.
Just took a pinch or three of this. It is quite wonderful. Medium grind, moist and very tasty. It’s not overly sickening like other G&T snuffs. A very wonderful snuff.
Why do have to increase the number of snuffs on my must try list. Since I agree about the others I’ve tried, a little too much. Darn it. Of course I kid. It is good to have more snuffs that must be tried.
This sounds interesting - until very rcently I was convinced that I hated gin and hadn’t touched a drop for over 25 years (drinking ‘mishap’ when a teenager - nuff said!). Now it’s my preferred tipple and I’ve been meaning to try a G&T snuff - it would be heavenly to have a chilled G&T in my hand, a Göteborgs Rapé portion under my lip and some of this in my nose! How does it compare to say, the Bespoke or Snuff Store G&T snuff?