Packards Club Snuff - supply in the UK to be ceased!

We don’t like to be the bearer of ‘bad news’, but we’ve just been told that very shortly Packards Club snuff will no longer be available in the UK.

Thinking this must be some kind of mistake, we immediately contacted Poschl via email. We received at first ‘promising’ news and then unfortunately second, a withdrawl of this news a few days later. The bomb shell being dropped that our supplier is correct. Packards Club will shortly no longer be imported into the UK.

Dear Tim,
Thank you for your E-Mail.
Sorry for my fault. Packard´s Club Snuff is no more available in the whole U.K.
Unfortunately we had to delete this product.
We are very sorry about this matter.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact us again!
Best regards
i. A. Martina RieblingerPöschl Tabak GmbH & Co. KG
Verkauf International
Dieselstr. 1
D-84144 Geisenhausen

Packards Club Snuff is a favourite of many snuff users. Packards Club is a old snuff blend, and ironically originally it is a British blend; now made under licence in Germany by Poschl.

On a personal level, it was one of our ‘first’ favourite snuffs - way before the launch of Snuff Store and has remained one of our ‘every day’ snuffs.

Packards Club comes in a really nice retro style box, with a serving ‘doser’. It’s a fruity snuff, slightly moist and generally considered by many to be a ‘every day’ snuff.

So what can we do? Well as ‘consumers’ as well as a snuff store owner, we think it’s only right that we lobby Poschl and try to get them to change their mind.

It seems strange that during a ’snuff revival’, a time when more and more tobacco users are moving to the gentle art of snuff taking not just in the UK, (but also world-wide) that a decision such as this has been made.

Maybe if enough of us get together and contact Poschl in protest, spread the word to other snuff users and get more and more people involved in our protest, Poschl may change their mind about withdrawing Packards Club.

We recently ‘lost’ Robbies Snuff in the UK - although fortunately there are a few wholesalers left in the UK with supplies. The reason we had been given for the loss of Robbies, was that it wasn’t financially viable to print the ‘warning labels’ in English.

We do not know the reason why Packards Club is being withdrawn, as a ‘good seller’ on Snuff Store it doesn’t make any sense to us. It certainly isn’t going to make any sense to the regular Packards Club users in the UK - whether they purchase Packards Club from Snuff Store or not is besides the point…

So if you want to lodge a protest, add a comment to this post below and here’s the email address for Poschl. Make them aware of your feelings towards removing Packards Club before it’s too late.

poeschl@poeschl-tobacco.de

It could be a ‘real’ SOS - Save Our Snuff…

Look out for further Packards Club snuff updates.

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Been a bit lazy with the snuff posts recently - apologies.

I’ve built up a load of snuff news to add and will be doing so over the next few days.

Hopefully once this snuff news back log has been added, I’ll be able to get back into the regular swing of snuff posts again.

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Hi All,

Two new snuff boxes added to the snuff box section. We’ve also had loads of deliveries this week and many items that have been out of stock are now available again.

We’ve had a delivery of Samuel Gawith’s Scotch Black; for some reason Scotch Black is in a white ‘new style’ plastic carton… Don’t know whether this is just a once off.

For a brief idea as to what’s in this week, please see below.

New Two Tone Rose Wood Snuff Box now in stock.

New Crest Embossed Wooden Snuff Box now in stock.

Silver Snuff Box Engraved Lid back in stock.

Silver Plain Snuff Box back in stock.

Samuel Gawith - Scotch Black, Banana, Black Coffee and Cherry are now only available in the new cartons. As mentioned above, Scotch Black for some reason is in the white version of the new plastic carton. We still have some supplies of the other blends in tins, but as our supplier’s stock is exhausted we will gradually move over to the new style cartons. Take advantage of the tin stocks as prices are reduced.

Gawith Hoggarth - Aniseed, Eucalyptus, Tia Maria & Strawberry are now back in stock.

J & H Wilsons - Medicated 99 back in stock.

Snuff Book By Ursula Bourne back in stock.

Hope you have a great weekend.

Julia & Tim

Snuff Store

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Just added two new wooden snuff boxes to snuff store.

Two Tone Rose Wood Snuff Box and the Embossed Crest Wooden Snuff Box.

Below are four images of these snuff boxes, including images of the snuff boxes open showing the sliding lid.

Two Tone Rose Wood Closed

Two Tone Rose Wood Snuff Box Open

Crest Snuff Box Closed

Crest Snuff Box Open

We are always looking for new snuff accessories to add to Snuff Store’s inventory. If you see something elsewhere that we do not yet stock, or have an idea of something snuff related that you’d like us to try and source please feel free to contact us.

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Hi All,

Just found out that Julia is expecting our ‘third’. Here’s a scanned on image of the 12 week scan pictures.

Toby and Zach are very much looking forward to having a new brother or sister.

Ta-Ta

Tim

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Just taken delivery of these lovely silver snuff boxes with engraved lids - Silver Snuff Box Engraved Lid.

The snuff box is made from .925 Sterling Silver. It has various hallmarks on the back; size-wise, it’s approximately 6.2 cm x 3.4 cm x 1.5 cm and weighs about 34 grams. The below is of the silver snuff box standing next to a one penny piece to give some idea of size.

The below picture may give you some idea of how shiny these silver snuff boxes are. Please excuse my reflection in this image, but I wanted to try and get some detail of the engraving on the lid!

The next two images are of the silver snuff box open, with the snuff storage area shown. Again, I’ve used a penny piece to try and give a size comparison for you.

Check out the silver snuff box offerings on Snuff Store for further details.

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Happy St. George’s Day To One And All…

Today I’ll be mostly snuffing English Rose.

Shakespeare. Henry V - Act III, Scene I.

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead.
In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man
As modest stillness and humility:
But when the blast of war blows in our ears,
Then imitate the action of the tiger;
Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,
Disguise fair nature with hard-favour’d rage;
Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;
Let pry through the portage of the head
Like the brass cannon; let the brow o’erwhelm it
As fearfully as doth a galled rock
O’erhang and jutty his confounded base,
Swill’d with the wild and wasteful ocean.
Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide,
Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit
To his full height. On, on, you noblest English.
Whose blood is fet from fathers of war-proof!
Fathers that, like so many Alexanders,
Have in these parts from morn till even fought
And sheathed their swords for lack of argument:
Dishonour not your mothers; now attest
That those whom you call’d fathers did beget you.
Be copy now to men of grosser blood,
And teach them how to war. And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game’s afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’

Happy St. George’s Day!

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Hedges Snuff L260 - also known as ‘The Snuff’ is a fine mentholated snuff.

Hedges snuff was originally invented by William Ross Hedges, a chemist from Birmingham. Interestingly, Hedges snuff was offered as a ‘cure all’ remedy for various cold related ailments!

Hedges L260 is one of the last snuffs widely available in tobacconists. It is a snuff that has been copied by several other snuff manufacturers - I’m sure if you do a little research, which snuffs will be revealed.

Hedges snuff is a fine powdered dry-ish brown snuff tobacco powder. It is a great all day snuff for those who like their snuff on the menthol side. It has a reported good nicotine kick, so may be suitable for those looking to replace ’smoking tobacco’ with smokeless tobacco snuff alternatives - read this.

For more information on William Ross Hedges click here. I do not know whether the below entry copied from the War Graves reference site, refers to the son of William Ross Hedges the Birmingham based chemist - no matter what, it is still a reminder of the sacrifice made by previous generations on our behalf.

WILLIAM HERBERT HEDGES, MC

Captain 1st (North Midland) Field Company, Royal Engineers

Died Tuesday, 22nd August 1916 aged 23 in France

The son of William Ross Hedges and E. Hedges of Birmingham

Try Hedges L260 ‘The Snuff’ Snuff today.

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Stammheimer Hopfen Schnuph is a hop flavoured snuff from McChrystals and is now available at Snuff Store.

Stammheimer Hopfen Schnuph is a snuff of distinctive flavour and quality, it is as close to a ‘beer’ flavoured snuff that we’ve come across. The flavour is bitter, sweet, and tangy all at the same time!

Stammheimer Hopfen snuff has a nice aroma of hops and tobacco and as soon as you open the tin you notice the scent, which is quite unlike any other snuff we’ve tried. Stammheimer Hopfen snuff is brown in colour and has a grind consistency similar to McChrystals’ O & G. It comes in a McChrystals ‘large’ tin and contains about 8.75 g of snuff.

Stammheimer Hopfen snuff is specifically blended for the continental European market and considered to be a ‘difficult to get hold of snuff’, it carries the same name as a Hop Farm in Switzerland. It is I believe a snuff created as a collaboration between McChrystals and the Stammheimer Hopfen Hop Farm, you can find a link to their website here. It’s a page translated into English, you can return it back to original language when you get there if you like.

Try Stammheimer Hopfen snuff today.

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Snuff & Snow

We had a un-seasonable snow storm this morning. Some time between 7 and 8 o’clock it started snowing and at times it was near blizzard conditions.

We live in Surrey and so being in the south of England, we don’t usually get that much snow.

Now there’s a big kid in all of us I suppose, so I was just as excited about the snow as my two sons - Toby and Zach; we all rushed breakfast and as quickly as possible got some warm clothes on and ventured out into the snow to play!

Tim, Zach (in pram) and Pip the dog.

Julia and Toby.

View towards Gatton lake.

Gatton view.

I had a few pinches of McChrystals Original & Genuine whilst on the walk.

Tim & snowman in the garden.

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