Edgeworth tobacco was sold in sliding-lid tins you describe in the
sixties. I was a pipe smoker at the time, in Richmond, home of the
manufacturer, Larus and Brother.

The other packaging of Edgeworth was "ready rubbed" for pipe smoking,
but you could buy the cut plug, which was a strip measuring about
three quarters of an inch by maybe an eighth. Maybe they still make
the stuff. Their other brand was Holiday.




At 4:17 PM -0800 4/16/03, Robin Mills wrote:
>
>A very well preserved EDGEWORTH EXTRA HIGH GRADE PLUG SLICE tobacco tin has
>come to light from a recent excavation with lithography on the inside of
>the lid, something I'd never found before. It clearly identified the
>contents for EITHER smoking OR chew.

snips happen


>Question: Is my original assumption clearly wrong ("plug" = "chew")?  Is
>"Plug Slice" = smoking or chew, and "Cut Plug" = chew?


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