Article has been published now: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/snuff/
Awesome Alex! Great read!
If you like to visit the Dutch snuff windmills see http://www.wired.com/underwire/2009/06/gallery\_snuff/7/ Jaap Bes.
That’s the best part of the Wired article, and very nice and interesting on it’s own.
Beautiful pictures Jaap. Awesome.
Jaap, It is wonderful to see you in action at the mill. Your snuffs have a whole new aura to them! I enjoy your products daily, and look forward to every pinch.
Wow. Now I have seen where my favorite snuff is made, Molens Macuba.
Did that gallery article state that the Mill made snuff for Samuel Gawith snuffs?
Yes, but that is a wrong quote. The mills do not produce for Samuel Gawith Jaap Bes.
I didn’t think so. Thanks, Jaap
Great read! Wow those windmills are beautiful.
Here’s another view of Jaap’s mills…
Very nice aerial view!
Here’s Another View Of Jaap’s Windmills… Sorry the file wont work for me today!
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Weird, I can’t post that picture either.
Mark, I posted two pictures earlier, no problems. It must be the site. Not just us lol!
I think it’s the picture… I tried two others, no problem! It was bugging me, I had to re-do the image.
That’s the one, I gave up as it was getting late.
Yes, that are the mills, thanks for sharing the picture. The lower one is De Ster rebuild in 1968 after it burnt down in 1962. The upper one is De Lelie, a lot older, it was originally build in 1776 and left of De Lelie is De Karottenfabriek the place were most of the work on snuff was done untill around 1950. It was restaurated as a multifunctional centre in the 1980ies. In between the mills is the old residence (build in 1876) of the original owners, the family of Hioolen, who lived there untill 1920, now a restaurant. Jaap Bes.