Samuel Gawith Pipe Tobacco Navy Flake - 50g Tin

 A traditional offering of Virginias, pressed with just the right amount of latakia and flavoured with rum. Medium strength. Sailors dream come through - storm-tossed seas, a howling wind, a ship with full sail beating into the wind and Jolly Jack Tar at the helm with his trusty pipe. Those are the images which are conjured up whilst smoking Samuel Gawith's Navy Flake

• Strength: 3/5
• Flavouring: 2/5 Rum
• Taste: 4/5
• Cut: Flake
• Room Note: 3/5
• Content: Virginia, Latakia

Samuel Gawith

Established in Kendal during the mid 1800s, Gawith Hoggarth manufactures the finest tobaccos and snuffs using the highest quality raw materials available, still, in many instances using the original machinery dating back to 1750's Tobacco production in Kendal dates from 1792, when Kendalian Thomas Harrison returned from Glasgow, Scotland, where he had learned the art of snuff manufacture. He also brought with him 50 tons of second-hand equipment, all carried on horse back. Ownership of his firm passed eventually to his son-in-law, Samuel Gawith, whose eponymic firm, Samuel Gawith & Co., continues in business to this day. Following Samuel Gawith's death in 1865, the firm passed into the hands of his two eldest sons. During this time the business was administered initially by trustees, including Henry Hoggarth, and John Thomas Illingworth. Illingworth left the firm in 1867 to start his own firm, which remained in business until the 1980s. The youngest son of Samuel Gawith the First subsequently teamed with Henry Hoggarth to form Gawith Hoggarth TT, Ltd. Both Samuel Gawith & Company and Gawith Hoggarth TT continue in business today in Kendal, producing snuffs and tobacco products still used around the world.