Hopefully an online retailer will step up and carry those vacuum tins. They look exactly like the tins I got from G. Smith’s, and are also similar to the J&H Wilson tin I have. I’d buy a lot more SG snuff if they were sold like that.
@AllanH: I’ve never heard of Menthol Brown either !
Heard of Menthol Brown, but not Kendal Brown Menthol. SG must be desperate if they are contaminating their flagship offering with menthol. Samuel Gawith’s standard 1oz snuff tin was very good. It was sturdy and kept the contents in excellent condition - just like their pipe tobacco 2oz tin. About the time my tobacconist (a very good one long since gone) started procuring me tall 1lb tins of SG that were usually used for loose sales of snuff in little paper packets, the latter started a range in tins with hinged lids - like some Illingworth‘s snuffs. These were unbelievably bad. The loose fitting lid rattled, the cheap hinge was wonky and a good shake would expel the contents quite liberally. After a year or so these were discontinued. Hopefully the plastic thingy will follow suit. Back issues of the journal Tobacco show that the Kendals were interested in Pöschl style packaging 30 years or more ago. It took the management of Kendal Brown House three decades of ponder to make a bad decision that any experienced snuffer like myself would have rejected in minutes. Unbelievably they said yea instead of nay. The reason, of course, was to entice novices with attractive packaging, like the child-catcher in Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. Only a novice would buy these dreadful boxes. “If a retailer started stocking these I’d definitely buy them, but save for the very occasional bulk purchase I’ve more or less given up on Samuel Gawith due to their damned plastic tap boxes.” Ditto. I would always throw in around six assorted tins with my order. Damned if I’d waste money on worthless contents now.
I contacted Snuff.me.uk about the vacuum tins, I was told that they could not order them, but I was more than welcome to order a drum.
Maybe MrSnuff and NicotineRush can get these tins in stock when their move to the U.K. is complete ?
Well stokes, your post saves me an e-mail to Jamie, I had thought to ask them as well as Samuel Gawith. I did send off an inquiry about the 25g tins and availability to SG, will be interesting if I get a response.
@PhilipS Kendal Brown Menthol works really well, flavours are kind of separate; strong, earthy tobacco and mild, refreshing menthol. This snuff is safe to offer to anyone. And other curious thing about those Sam Gawith tins; not just the names were weird but even the health warning is wrong, the one for pipe tobacco not snuff!
Just received an order from snuff.me.uk yesterday. Included was a 10g tap of SG Apple. Aside from the fact that I currently have a new favorite snuff, damn that Apple is GOOD, the condition of the snuff was as if from a bulk drum. Moist and pungent! Nothing like any of the other SG snuff I’ve had from those “evil plastic” tap boxes. But then again, this was the 1st time I had gotten one from Jamie. I commented as such to him in an email last night. In reply this morning he indicated that his relationship with Samuel Gawith is such that his stock is usually fresh. So… if you’ve a mind to get 10g boxes of SG you should certainly consider snuff.me.uk Excuse me now as I must take more of that Apple snuff!
I have e-mailed Samuel Gawith in the past enquiring whether I could buy direct, because of the number of stale tap-boxes I had bought. No reply, so no business from me. I prefer the Wilsons range anyway and they have always been courteous enough to reply to me. I don’t see why people should have to buy in bulk because of the failings of their crappy dispensers.
A lot of the Samuel Gawith snuffs are not as sensitive to the tap box environment as the moist dark snuffs are.
Best place I know for Gawith in tap boxes is John Hollingsworth & Sons, Birmingham - a “proper” tobacconist, they store all their snuffs with the same care as their cigars - in a well-regulated humidor. They have quite a good selection from Sam Gawith’s, Wilsons of Sharrow, some of the better blends from GH, along with products from Poschl and Imperial (J&H Wilson, Hedges …). Excellent shop in Birmingham (Great Western Arcade) - they also have a shop in Solihull (which I have yet to visit). Certainly the snuff from the Birmingham shop is consistently in excellent condition.
Peterson’s of Dublin have a selection of Sam Gawith in tins now. Just today got another tin of London Brown. Messy but so good!
25 gram tins are the way to go. avoid the tap box disappointment ,Your going to use it anyway
i dont see how people cant get hold of the 25g tins, ive tried a load of SG snuffs, and never once owned or physically seen one of those tapboxes. talking of SG… do they have a physical shop themselves? and id also like to take a look round the mill, like the thread where someone took pictures round molens.