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  • GoVegan
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    • Oct 2009
    • 5603
    #1

    Cool Looking Tobacco Tins.

    I found this tin on ebay and absolutely love it! I would even bid on it if it wasn't for the $5+ shipping fee. It is a Holiday Tobacco Tin. I was stationed at Ft. Eustis for a while and the ship on that tin reminds me of a ship I saw whenever we passed the Dead Fleet. It was an older passenger ship and I used to wonder what the history of that ship was and how the government acquired it. My guess is that it was used to carry troops in WWII but that is only a guess. I am very tempted to start collecting tobacco tins but I am not sure where I would keep them. Some of them are quite nice.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Holiday-...ht_2702wt_1139

    OK I just placed a bid on this tin because it is ending and has no other bidders. I can live with the $5 shipping if I get this for a $1. This is also a pretty cool tin with a ship on it.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...#ht_500wt_1156
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  • lxskllr
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    • Sep 2007
    • 13435
    #2
    I'm a big fan of tobacco tins, and I have a few, but I don't have the spare cash t actively collect the atm. Like most collections, it's best to specialize, or you'll be quickly overrun. Stick with a manufacturer, time period, or subject matter, and you'll be good to go. If I were to actively collect, I'd get tins from before 1948. That would give me the 30s-WWII which I'm especially interested in.

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    • GoVegan
      Member
      • Oct 2009
      • 5603
      #3
      Originally posted by lxskllr View Post
      I'm a big fan of tobacco tins, and I have a few, but I don't have the spare cash t actively collect the atm. Like most collections, it's best to specialize, or you'll be quickly overrun. Stick with a manufacturer, time period, or subject matter, and you'll be good to go. If I were to actively collect, I'd get tins from before 1948. That would give me the 30s-WWII which I'm especially interested in.
      Can we see some of them?

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      • Premium Parrots
        Super Moderators
        • Feb 2008
        • 9759
        #4
        better check again I might just bid on it also..........






        yea.....I know......I'm an ass
        Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I killed because they were annoying......



        I've been wrong lots of times.  Lots of times I've thought I was wrong only to find out that I was right in the beginning.


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        • Premium Parrots
          Super Moderators
          • Feb 2008
          • 9759
          #5
          I was just screwing with you, Someone else out bid you tho
          Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I killed because they were annoying......



          I've been wrong lots of times.  Lots of times I've thought I was wrong only to find out that I was right in the beginning.


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          • GoVegan
            Member
            • Oct 2009
            • 5603
            #6
            Yeah - looks like we weren't the only ones bidding on there. Somebody came in right at the end and sniped it.

            Hey, wouldn't that be funny if there was a HUGE market for Swedish Snus cans 20 years from now and here we are tossing them in the recycle bin.

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            • lxskllr
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              • Sep 2007
              • 13435
              #7
              Originally posted by GoVegan View Post
              Can we see some of them?
              I'll try to keep it mind, and get a picture when I can. They're squirreled away in boxes, and stuff, and I can't get my hands immediately on them.

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              • Premium Parrots
                Super Moderators
                • Feb 2008
                • 9759
                #8
                Oh, I didn't bid. I wouln't do that to you. But someone else did. I think it was chad.
                Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I killed because they were annoying......



                I've been wrong lots of times.  Lots of times I've thought I was wrong only to find out that I was right in the beginning.


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                • GoVegan
                  Member
                  • Oct 2009
                  • 5603
                  #9
                  Originally posted by lxskllr View Post
                  I'll try to keep it mind, and get a picture when I can. They're squirreled away in boxes, and stuff, and I can't get my hands immediately on them.
                  Thats ok, I am sure it will be worth the wait.

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                  • GoVegan
                    Member
                    • Oct 2009
                    • 5603
                    #10
                    Originally posted by Premium Parrots View Post
                    Oh, I didn't bid. I wouln't do that to you. But someone else did. I think it was chad.
                    No problem, it went for more than I would have paid for it and there were other bidders on it as well. I just like looking at them. It shows that at least SOME things get better with age.

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                    • Ansel
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                      • Feb 2011
                      • 3696
                      #11
                      I like the pictures Cornell and Diehl print for their tins.

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                      • GoVegan
                        Member
                        • Oct 2009
                        • 5603
                        #12
                        Originally posted by Ansel
                        I like the pictures Cornell and Diehl print for their tins.
                        I agree, especially Mississippi Mud.

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                        • Mykislt
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                          • Sep 2010
                          • 677
                          #13
                          what the shit is this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ABSOLUT-Energy-S...item43a6f2c45c

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                          • GoVegan
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                            • Oct 2009
                            • 5603
                            #14
                            Originally posted by Mykislt View Post
                            what the shit is this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ABSOLUT-Energy-S...item43a6f2c45c
                            I saw that as well. I was really hoping that someone was trying to sell real Swedish snus on ebay but in the description it says it has no tobacco and is made from coffee beans. I wish that seller luck in trying to sell fake snus for $11.00 a can! He/She is going to need it unless Chad comes along and buys it.

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                            • Snus Boost
                              Member
                              • Jan 2011
                              • 640
                              #15
                              Originally posted by GoVegan View Post
                              Yeah - looks like we weren't the only ones bidding on there. Somebody came in right at the end and sniped it.

                              Hey, wouldn't that be funny if there was a HUGE market for Swedish Snus cans 20 years from now and here we are tossing them in the recycle bin.
                              I'll be in luck if that happens since I have Damn near every can I have ever used.

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