An Offering of Puffed Tins from 2014-2017 | G.L. Pease, Cornell & Diehl | La Clave Collection
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Five tins. All puffed. All sealed. All alive.
A deliberate offering of puffed tins from the 99-tin, 20+ lb La Clave Collection — cellared together since 2016-2017 in a climate-controlled wine cellar, undisturbed for nine years. The pressure has been building since the day they were sealed. What's happening inside is the point.
G.L. Pease Stonehenge Flake (×2) — Cellared in July of 2017. Batch 616/17 on one; the second carries no production sticker. No longer in production. Nine years of active aging in a sealed environment, the tobacco breathing and developing in the dark exactly as nature intended.
G.L. Pease Gaslight — Cellared September 2, 2016. Old London Series. Batches TPSC 20001 and 8 1316. Dark, atmospheric, and quietly becoming something more than it was when it went in.
Cornell & Diehl Joie de Vivre — Cellared September 2, 2016. Batch 032514. Nine years of undisturbed rest from one of American blending's most beloved houses.
G.L. Pease Six Pence — Acquired locally, same era. Old London Series. Partially legible batch ending in 14. The mystery of the lot — and possibly the oldest tin here.
A puffed tin is not a compromised tin. It is a living one. The seal holds, the lid is intact, and inside each of these five tins something slow and irreversible has been happening for nine years or longer. Same collection, same cellar, same patience.
Offered as a lot, with the true connoisseur in mind.
