Observed arrival · 2026-11-13
The Tin Finder’s pipe-tobacco ledger
A collector’s archive of pipe tobacco blends, price notes, essays, and a San Francisco shop’s history.
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- Pipe tobacco collectors and price-history readers
- Worth noticing
- The homepage lists 148 catalogued blends and a separate consignment shelf of 102 tins.
Field notes
The sample ledger entry pairs a tin name and year with a price, while the essays explain how the archive approaches dating, provenance, and tobacco varieties. The homepage says the shop began recording prices in 1978 and describes the archive as a project to keep those notes readable after the shop closed. It gives an address and appointment hours for viewing the original notebooks.
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