The sliding pocket tin that I have seen the most is for Half & Half brand.
Here are some good references for tobacco tins:


Bergevin, Al
  1986 Tobacco Tins and Their Prices. Lombard, Illinois,
       Wallace-Homestead Book Company, 580 Waters Edge, 60148

Clemens, Kaye
  1973  Tobacco and Food Tins. A Price Guide. Volume I. Kansas
        City, MO: Lamplighters Antiques, 306 West 80th Terrace, 64114

Challenger, James
  1989  Tobacco Tins Encyclopedia. Schiffer Publishing, ltd. ISBN:
0887401791.

Davis, Marvin, and Helen Davis
  1975  Collector's Price Guide to Bottles, Tobacco Tins, and Relics.
             New York, N.Y., Galahad Books, Revised edition.

Davis, Marvin, and Helen Davis
  1970  Tobacco Tins.  Old Bottle Collecting Publications, P.O. Box 276
              Ashland, Oregon 97520

Kircher, Franklyn
  1984  Tobacco Pocket Tin Guide: Flats and Uprights. East Lansing, MI:
        636 Hillcreast Avenue, 48823

Rosnick, Stewart I., and Jules B. Selden
  1987  Rosnick and Selden's Cross Reference Guide to Tobacco Tins.
        Volume I. Manchester, MA: 7 Big Rock Road, 01944.

Sewdberg, Robert W., and Harriett Swedberg
  1985  Tins 'n' Bins.  Wallace-Homestead Book Company, Greensboro,
        N.C., P.O. Box 5406, 27403


If anyone has any more complete citations, I would very much like to
request them.

Smoke.


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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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