I know Sammy G uses vacuum sealed tins for Black Rapee, London Brown, and Princes Dark. Do any others come that way ? Is there other companies using vacuum sealed tins?
It is my understanding that J & H Wilsons uses vacuum sealed tins as well. That applies only to the 25 gram tins. The littler ones are just a plastic match box type container with a sliding metal lid. All of the SG 25 gram tins are vacuum sealed as far as I know.
Ostensibly the whole range is available in those sturdy tins. Outlets, however, don’t always stock them because of fears that they won’t all sell since the company only provides packed boxes of 16 tins.
Radford snuff is also available in 25 gram vaccum sealed tins. On the rim it says “for J. Brumfit and Radford Tobacco Ltd. Harrow/London” and on the bottom it says Poschl with the German address.
My Smoking Shop and Mr. Snuff both carry a wide range of the Sam Gawth in vacuum tins. No one that I know of carries the full range, yet. However an excellent selection can be obtained by those saavy ones who persevere.
The Black Swan shop announced not long back that they were also going to use these in future and phase out the tap boxes.
Smith’s were using these for awhile but are no longer as of our last report from there.
J&H Wilson were once available in all three of thier varieites, but Top Mill seems to have disappeard in this format. Hedges (also coming from Imperial) is also vacuum sealed.
Thanks for your knowlrdge and experience. I’m interested in building a “doomsday” supply that will be usable. Bought a lot of bulks but worry about condition years latter even though I’ve taken precautions as suggested here. Rather have some with reliability and pay more for it than a bunch of muted less than satisfying snuff. At 58 I imagine snuff will be available until I can no longer draw a breath but… Again thanks for your help.
@xander I just received a large tin of Hedges last week, and it is not vacuum sealed. It looks very similar to a Wilson’s 25g tin, and was wrapped in plastic. Is this something new?
Yep, Hedges comes in the tins exactly as @Mark W described - not vacuum sealed. Actually the design seems to be practically identical to Wilson’s big tins as you say.
I retract my comment on Hedges. I stand corrected. Sorry for any confusion!