Vintage Tobacco Tins

Pipe and Tamper: Breaking Bad with Moises Salcedo

EP61 - On this episode of the podcast, Mike is joined by Instagram's Cliff Nordyke (@mormonpipes). Mike and Cliff do a quick tobacco review of Sillem's Black and then close things out talking about Tobacco Acquisition Disorder in which Cliff openly admits having. Sandwiched in-between these segments is an in-depth interview with artist Moises Salcedo. Moises often incorporates pipe-smoking into his work and is an incredibly talented individual.

Visual Mastery: A Look At Vrijdag Premium Printing

Printing plate for Brooks Cigars, Red Lion, PA.

(Tobacco Business Magazine) For some, cigar bands are merely an afterthought—a cigar smoker buys a cigar, rips off the band and lights up his or her smoke without so much as taking a glance at the colorful ring of paper encircling it.
To others, the artwork adorning the band surrounding their favorite smokes adds to the mystique of the cigars they choose. It attracts them, and they identify with the colorful designs that adorn the band and the box that contains the cigars. Continued

A Tale of Three Meerschaums by Master Carver Salih of Kocmeerschaums

How Cigars Are Made Part 4 | The Art of Presentation

A [Short] Conversation about Snuff Bottles

The Hobo Cigar Connection

(Firecured) Why would a hobo smoke cigars? It never made any sense to me, that a traveling migrant worker, which is what most of them were, would smoke something so ill-suited to such a hard lifestyle, but that's how they are always depicted. Finally, I think I found an answer in Patricia A. Cooper's book, "Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900 - 1919."
"The cigar maker," wrote one lifelong observer of the CMIU, "is a wanderer." The description was simple but accurate. ... Travel also acted as a sort of rite of passage. This was especially true of hoboing. Most traveling was not hoboing, but everyone was expected to try it at least once. "I don't know why we did," remarked Ograin, but you had to take a hobo trip. If you didn't hobo - why they used to say, 'all right. You're through with your apprenticeship. Now go out and learn the trade.'"

YTPC Top 5: Tobacco Tin Art Awards Hosted by FCP and Lady Briar

Are We Living In The Golden Age of Smoking Pipe Design?

(TobaccoDays) How would you describe the Golden Age of anything? How would you describe it with pipes?
Was the golden age of pipes at the beginning of English/French standard shape design in the early 1900’s? Is it defined as simpler times? Maybe you see the Danish design explosion of the 50’s & 60’s as the golden age? Those were pioneering times with so many new ideas? Or something else perhaps…maybe today is the Golden Age of Pipes? Continued

Cigar News: Davidoff Art Edition 2016 Details Announced

(Cigar Coop) Back in late February, Davidoff announced a second installment of the Davidoff Art Edition. Today the company unveiled the specifics about the Davidoff Art Edition 2016. The company announced the cigar will have a formal launch at the Art Basel festival in Basel, Switzerland beginning June 16. Continued

Brad Pohlmann's Favorite Pipe Designs

(Smokingpipes.com) When you've been in the game as long as American master Brad Pohlmann, you're bound to end up with at least a few favorite forms. Whether they're standard shapes that one explores over and over again, or experimentations that end up becoming signature shapes, it's these repeated exercises that truly define a pipe maker's body of work. In honor of today's update, we've asked Brad to give us some insight regarding some of his favorite, and most popular designs. Here's what he had to say: Continued

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds

(Smokingpipes.com) ... Below you can find a range of five unique images, offered in two high-resolution sizes, to use however you'd like. Feel free to download and set them as your desktop background, or print them out and hang 'em all your wall. Continued

Smokingpipes.com 2016 Poster Revealed

(smokingpipes.com) Every year Smokingpipes.com releases a new, double-sided poster for all to enjoy. In the past, these posters have featured everything from pipe maker sketches to Ted miraculously driving his motorcycle whilst smoking a pipe. Either way, it's a fun and often educational way for us to flex our creative muscles and share exclusive information with you all. Continued

A Piece of Art Deco – Greenwich House Thoro-Kleen

(Rebornpipes.com) For some crazy reason I have always liked odd pipes – pipes that pushed the envelope in the search for a cool dry smoke. Together they are alike a museum display of odd and inventive contraptions. When my brother sent me this metal pipe it certainly fit the category of the unusual. Continued

Iconic Macanudo Logo Gets New Modern Look

 

(Cigar Aficionado) If the Macanudo logo looks slightly different in a few weeks, it isn't your imagination. Brand owner General Cigar has changed the design of Macanudo's iconic crest, giving it a more streamlined appearance. Starting January 15, all boxes of Macanudo cigars shipped to retailers and tobacconists will be emblazoned with the new logo. This includes the flagship Macanudo Café brand, as well as Macanudo Crü Royale, Macanudo 1968 and Macanudo Maduro. Continued

Cornell and Diehl: New Label Art

 

(Cornell and Diehl) After the announcement of the BriarWorks blends, it's probably not a surprise to any of you that we've been working on creating some new, really interesting tobaccos. While most of our time does go into perfecting the mixtures you love and experimenting with potential future favorites, we've also been working on revamping our old tin artwork.
The working man series, for one, has seen a drastic change. Check out the new look of Morning Drive Time, Lunchtime Blues, and Five o'Clock Shadow: Continued

La Honradez Cigarette Labels: The 1st Tobacco Collectible

 

(National Cigar History Museum) Sometime in the 1850’s Cuban cigarette manufacturer Louis Susini began bundling his smokes in colorful 4 3/4” x 3 3/8” paper wrappers, one of the earlier uses of full color lithographic labels to package a product. No one knows who came up with the brilliant
idea to design the labels in sets, thus becoming the first use of a collectible to sell tobacco, but it was a stroke of marketing genius. Continued

Davidoff Shows Off Final Cave de Paille Humidor

 

(Halfwheel) At Art Basel Miami, which opened today, Davidoff showed off the conclusion to its Cave de Paille humidor collection, Saison III.
The humidors are done in collaboration with French artist Lison de Caunes  who is known for her use of straw. Each of the three humidors in the sires has been made using as much 1,000 individual pieces of straw. Continued

Vincent’s passion for pipe smoking

 

(Pipes Magazine) "Vincent’s passion for pipe smoking" is a new exhibit at the Amsterdam Pipe Museum that presents the pipes that Vincent van Gogh painted in his portraits and still-life paintings. Six of his self portraits with a pipe show how affectionate Van Gogh was about his pipe smoking. Continued

What It’s Like to Be a Tobacco Farmer: Photos From Around the World

 

(Slate) In the late 1990s, as Sarah Hazlegrove’s family stopped growing tobacco for the first time in 200 years, her immediate reaction was to start photographing the Virginia family farm she knew and loved. Though Forkland Farm’s history with tobacco had special resonance for her, she knew its departure from the cash crop wasn’t a unique phenomenon and that many family tobacco operations around the world were slipping away as commercial enterprises increasingly dominated.
In the years since, she’s visited family farms throughout the United States, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Malawi, Indonesia, and Cuba to document the people who still grow the plant the way she knew growing up. Continued