Likely both made and tinned in Sheffield, England. Always. The pre-WOS resurrection versions that I have have a phone number, mailing address and Email address: Dean Swift Sales PO Box 1438 Santa Maria, CA 93456 805-925-0580 Ph 805-922-3966 Fx dssnuff@aol.com Some also have the address of a distributor: Arango Cigar Co., Northbrook, IL 60062, 800-222-4427 Ph, 847-480-1221 Fx. But I think this was the owner, looking to find interested parties in carrying his product, not the contracted maker. If you search our archives, you may find some more information. I once remember reading an article or blog about the artist that designed the logo and tin and shop shelf pack box that included a lot of photos. My own theory on Dean Swift was that an entrepreneur in the late 60s got the idea in his head that now that smoking was scientifically demonstrated to be harmful, there would be a mad rush back to snuff taking, so he probably contacted a snuff maker in England and worked with them on ideas for flavors while providing the design, names, and marketing himself (now that you have done some more research I think that entrepeneur was Wade H. Poole.) It caught on among some avant-garde types (like our friend Philip K. Dick and his followers) but never took off like he hoped. The name âFreeman & Gossageâ may also have been his invention to give it a name that sounded better or gave more prestige than something like the âPool Snuff Company.â Something along the lines of âFribourg and Treyer.â Dean Swift snuff could be found in certain tobacco shops into the early '00s but when we at Snuffhouse finally pieced together part of the puzzle and found the source to be WoS (this was about 2008 or 2009) they said they hadnât made any in 5 years, meaning everything since 2003 or 2004 we were buying from said shops was old stock. The brand was considered dead in the water about a year or two ago, when Wilsons decided they would revive it and distribute it themselves. The new ones feature a slightly different flavor range from the last years of the predecessor, and a slightly revised tin design. Also of note from the period when DS was âcoolâ was another entrepreneurial US brand called âCökesnuffâ. As far as I know they only made non tobacco snuffs and were trying to capitalize on the âcoolnessâ of cocaine at the time. They may well have been among the first white snuffs (glucose based) out ever, but Iâm not sure. The tins were also the same 5g round ones that DS, WoS and others use. A thorough search of Snuffhouse will bring you more info on these and possibly some photos as well, since weâve had the odd thread about them. Iâm pretty sure they were also made in England, and could probably be traced to our friends at the Sharrow Mills.
About the films. Thereâs King Solomonâs Mines and Alan Q and the Lost city of Gold, both from the 80âs, and both based on Haggardâs stories.
@Justin no I know that movie though, the one I was thinking of has a well known actor in it who is instantly recognizable by most and he lives in Africa and at the end he and his daughterâs husband played by the James Bond man Roger Moore go onto a Nazi ship on a river in Africa and rescue the daughter I think and blow up the Nazi ship. The main character, not Roger Moore, has a sidekick that is a native and Iâm pretty sure he uses snuff out of a bullet shell or at least uses snuff.
All interesting comments. I agree @Xander, that sounds about right. I shall put down my magnifying glass, remove my deerstalker and stop trying to Sherlock all this. My pipe remains firmly in my grasp however, at least until my order arrives from Mr Snuff. Anyone have any Dean Swifts for trade? Check my list of âfor tradesâ in the Bazaar. I shall go smoke my pipe now. I am currently listening to David Warner read Shirley Jacksonâs The Haunting of Hill House. No snuff in it but its still an excellent read, or listen for that matter.
Do they make a decent toast or an Sp type snuff similar to WoS Morlaix?
Sorry, @Grant, I saw this question and it registered but I got carried away in my other response I forgot this bit. I know of no Dean Swift toasts. They may have had one in their heyday, but I am not familiar with their past snuffs. They have two SPs, though neither is like WoS Morlaix, which I do not consider an SP anyway. The two are âS.P.â which has (oddly) a mild clove scent, and âDeanâs Ownâ which is a pretty basic more-or-less unscented SP similar to WoS SP2 or SS. The only two things in the world that I know of that are similar in scent to WoS Morlaix are Frederick Tranter âFinisterreâ (which is the exact same thing only under a different label) and Fribourg and Treyer âMorlaixâ, which I find worlds superior to the WoS one of the same name (perhaps they are not comparable at all). Its one of my top rated snuffs, and I keep it in bulk.
@Kpod â I have seen the term âcrumbs of comfortâ used by Jervis in the Dr. Thorndyke stories, but he wasnât referring to snuff â just something that he said to a young lady.
@Xander Thanks for the above info. Very interesting and insightful. I have tried both Morlaixâs and I must admit that I enjoy the WoS Morlaix immensely. I was using the F&T Morlaix as an, get this, after-bath snuff. lol It gave me a fresh & clean powdery feeling. Now the WoS Morlaix is a âgo to all dayâ snuff for me. I especially enjoy it interspersed between the many toasts I enjoy during the day. Iâll be glad when my Mr Snuff order arrives as I am out of toasts and WoS Morlaix. I found, over time, that the F&T tends to clog me a bit and can also be mildly cloying but the WoS Morlaix opens me up with a nice lemony citrus hit that I really canât get enough of. Hopefully this next tin will be the same. Iâd say my top snuffs thus far are the toasts, WoS Morlaix and Fichtennadel. Plenty of others to try though. In time.
@md363 This might be the droid you are looking for⊠http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shout\_at\_the\_Devil\_(film)
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@Justin Thats the movie I was thinking of! I didnât even have to click on the link, I recognized the name immediately, for some reason when I have tried to remember the name I canât ever remember it but thats definitely it. Itâs a really great movie you should watch it if you havenât already. Itâs on Netflix sometimes. @Grant I think you posted in the wrong place with those last two. lol
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idiot! Thought I was posting on WHATS IN YOUR NOSE my last few posts - lmao =))
@Justin Thats the movie I was thinking of! I didnât even have to click on the link, I recognized the name immediately, for some reason when I have tried to remember the name I canât ever remember it but thats definitely it. Itâs a really great movie you should watch it if you havenât already. Itâs on Netflix sometimes. @Grant I think you posted in the wrong place with those last two. lol
Just saw that. Busy doing other things. Forgot what page I was on. 8-}
I recently ran across a snuff sniffer in one of the âFather Brownâ stories by G.K. Chesterton.
Dead Names: A Dark History Of The Necronomicon meantions briefly of one of the story tellers friends developed a nasal snuff habit in highschool and took it off the blade of his pocket knife. The snuff type was never mentioned but this is supposedly a true story set in the 60-80âs America. I have not read it in a few years though and have been meaning to get back to it. It is what really sparked the idea of nasal snuff usage in my brain.
âIt was always I who emptied the packet into his black snuff-box for his hands trembled too much to allow him to do this without spilling half the snuff about the floor. Even as he raised his large trembling hand to his nose little clouds of smoke dribbled through his fingers over the front of his coat. It may have been these constant showers of snuff which gave his ancient priestly garments their green faded look for the red handkerchief, blackened, as it always was, with the snuff-stains of a week, with which he tried to brush away the fallen grains, was quite inefficaciousâ Itâs James Joyce (the first story in âDublinersâ - donât worry, itâs in the public domain) and the snuff in question is High Toast. I particularly admire the allusion to âlittle clouds of smokeâ. Incidentally, it was only whilst I was typing the extract that I was struck by Joyceâs eccentric use and non-use of the comma. Ah well, therein lies the essential difference between the genius and the hack, I suppose.
I had been wondering if there was a thread like this here on Snuffhouse and Iâm glad I found it. Iâm a huge fan of Philip K. Dick and have been for many years before I found out about snuff. Going back and reading some of his books Iâve been delighted to find mentions of snuff that I never noticed before I started taking snuff. There are actually quite a few and my most recent read, Ubik, persuaded me to put Fribourg and Treyer Princes on an order. A great snuff and a great author!
Some of the stories written by Theodore Roscoe about adventures in the French Foreign Legion have a snuff sniffer or two. The Complete Adventures of Thibaut Corday and the Foreign Legion (3 volumes) These stories appeared in pulp fiction magazines.
@howdydave did they make a movie from that book or a movie with a character named Allan Quatermain? I remember watching a movie that sounds a lot like that book.
To finally answer this question⊠The book that I referred to: Allan Quartermain, was the first in a series of adventure stories. The second book in the series: King Solomonâs Mines, was probably made into more movies than any of the other stories. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a mish-mosh that collected a bunch of big names from adventure stories (Dr. Jekyll, Captain Nemo, Dorien Gray et al) and made a story using all of them at once. Allen Quartermain was getting on in years when he was recruited as the group leader in this one⊠Sort of a turn of the century RED (Retired Extremely Dangerous.)