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Post by Dramatwist on Mar 6, 2018 3:03:00 GMT -5
With all this recent discussion of McClelland and Dunhill tobaccos disappearing, I began to wonder...
For those of us *of a certain age*, what was the first pipe tobacco that you loved (or at least were infatuated with for a time) that ceased production?
(Some of you may be going through this for the first time... ah, puppy love.)
Mine was "Skallorna." Don't recall who made it, but it was a cut above anything available in a pouch at the time... and there were quite a few on the shelves. We're talking early 1970s here.
Well?
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Post by steveinny on Mar 6, 2018 3:09:04 GMT -5
MacBaren Latakia Blend. My boss used to smoke it and I fell in love with the aroma. I used his car one day to run an errand and there was his yellow tobacco pouch. I took it to my local B&M and he identified it for me. I guess as an 18 year old I was ashamed to just ask what it was he was smoking. It has since been discontinued. I do miss it.
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Post by briarpipenyc on Mar 6, 2018 7:59:30 GMT -5
First, "blind date" with Mixture No. 79 ended badly, and, with no love lost. It was a bad match. Started running around with the flirty-perfumed, "Sugar Barrel", a low-maintenance dame, and we shacked up, and "lived in sin" for a few years. I changed over time, and we split up. Then SB disappeared. Still searching... but there's nothing like your very first love. If I ever run into SB, I'll bet there's been some big changes over the years.
Frank NYC
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Post by slowroll on Mar 6, 2018 8:04:09 GMT -5
Mine was Balkan Sobranie 759. Smoked it and nothing else for years. I still mourn. A curious coincidence, steveinny, last night I came across an unopened tin of MacB Latakia Blend in my library. Have no idea how old it is, has to be more than 10 years, since that's when I moved. Gonna smoke some today. Don't even remember if I liked it.
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Post by just ol ed on Mar 6, 2018 10:39:36 GMT -5
in '64 at a long gone B&M in Rochester. After battling with numerous "drug store" cheap floor sweepings artificially flavored mixtures, was introduced to, by the proprietor, 1st "real" pipe tobacco. Original Dunnie 965 (long before Murrays wimped them all down). Had it in bulk jar. Gradually to the rest of the Dunnie/Rattrays offerings. If considered a "snob", so be it. I'm quite thrifty in many ways but not in pipe tobacco. OK with some no-band somebody's 2nds in cigars 'tho.
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by papipeguy on Mar 6, 2018 11:02:48 GMT -5
I remember smoking Skallorna (sic) in the '70's. My favorite all time blend was Lane's Highland blend. I used to buy it in 1 pound cans at their store on 42nd St in New York. It disappeared, as did many Lane lat blends, when RJ Reyunolds bought Lane. I did contact Lane a couple of years ago and sent a small sample I had left from the early '80's only to be informed that the recipe had been lost. I sure miss that blend.
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Post by haebar on Mar 6, 2018 11:39:57 GMT -5
Kentucky Club Mixture Aromatic
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Post by zambini on Mar 6, 2018 12:55:39 GMT -5
Kentucky Club Mixture Aromatic They sell a vanilla version of it here in Mexico still.
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Post by cigrmaster on Mar 6, 2018 13:32:14 GMT -5
I fell in love with Three Nuns vaper version back around 1999 or so. Never thought it would get discontinued so I have only one tin left. The new version I have never tried as I have enough Vaburs in my cellar. It made an impression on me and when I began cellaring I made sure if I liked a blend a whole lot, I cellared it deep and fast. Two of my favorites were discontinued recently and I was not caught short handed this time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 14:50:50 GMT -5
have forgotten the name, but it was a square tin, Irish theme with Shamrocks. Manufacturer was Niemeyer ? Memorable taste wise as it had a lemony back note I've never rediscovered since.
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Post by papipeguy on Mar 6, 2018 14:56:31 GMT -5
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Post by papipeguy on Mar 6, 2018 14:58:44 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 6, 2018 15:24:33 GMT -5
Yes, great detective work. Thanks for the effort.
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Post by herbinedave on Mar 6, 2018 15:48:08 GMT -5
I would send away to Holt's in Philly for 100 gram tins of Dunhill EMP and 965 in the mid 80s. Easy to get and plentiful.
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Post by haebar on Mar 6, 2018 17:13:07 GMT -5
Kentucky Club Mixture Aromatic They sell a vanilla version of it here in Mexico still. Many years ago I liked the Kentucky Club Aromatic that came in the box. But my tastes were different back then.
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Post by slowroll on Mar 6, 2018 19:00:55 GMT -5
I have to admit, before I was in love with Balkan Sobranie 759, I used to get a mixture from Jon's Pipe Shop in Clayton, MO, called, simply enough, Jon's Smoking Mixture. Bought it for about 10 years by mail from around 1968. Then they changed the recipe and I went to 759. It was actually better than 759 IMO. Dunno what was in it, but it was great. I still use the paint cans it came in to store stuff. Every time I dig some small part out of those tins in get wistful.
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Post by herbinedave on Mar 6, 2018 19:03:50 GMT -5
I would send away to Holt's in Philly for 100 gram tins of Dunhill EMP and 965 in the mid 80s. Easy to get and plentiful. If I remember correctly the 100g tins where $2.99 and then miniscule shipping!
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Post by JimInks on Mar 6, 2018 21:50:10 GMT -5
Amphora Original was the OTC that I smoked, and it disappeared from the stores around me about 1983, though I later learned it was still sold in the USA until the early '90s. I replaced it with SWRA, though I was smoking other blends. Two of them were Three Nuns and Balkan Sobranie, which disappeared in 1998 and 1996 respectively. I was able to get them in large quantities from overseas, and when BS was discontinued in 2005, I had a lot here, which I eventually smoked by 2012. I was heavily stocked with Three Nuns when the formula was changed in 2004, and still have a few tins of it. I was sad when Dunhill Elizabethan was discontinued around 2005, and happy when I found the Sutliff Match, which is kinda of close to the original. And unhappy with the new version. Rotary Navy Cut is gone, too, durn it! But, I cellared as much as I could of what I like.
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