What is it ??

Stradawhovious · Oct 16, 2014

Based on the scale you provided... Pipe tobacco tin?

sm4him · Oct 16, 2014

Stradawhovious said:
CameraClicker said:

You were just at the doctor's, weren't you! My doctor always provides a clear plastic container with an orange lid that seals.

The scale is about the same. This is not a specimen jar/container.

Hope all went well at the doctor's.

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Nah. I have a friend who has containers with lids like that. He puts his weed in them. He calls them specimen jars. I figured I'd fathom a guess based on that.

A "friend," eh. Suuuuurrrrre.

Stradawhovious · Oct 16, 2014

sm4him said:
A "friend," eh. Suuuuurrrrre.

Yep, I'm too old for that crap. I just stick with brown liquor.

(ironically my "friend" is almost twice my age. :lol:

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CameraClicker · Oct 16, 2014

When I was in grade 7 or 8, a paper route customer smoked pipe tobacco. Their porch always smelled really good. I don't know what the tobacco came in. When I worked for CNCP, one o the techs in our office had a pipe. His tobacco was always in a pouch. I imagine a tin of tobacco would be larger and flatter, but that's just a guess.
Walking along the boardwalk at the beach, through clouds of smoke, is the closest I have been to your friend's specimens. On TV the "product" is usually in a clear plastic bag?

sm4him · Oct 16, 2014

CameraClicker said:
When I was in grade 7 or 8, a paper route customer smoked pipe tobacco. Their porch always smelled really good. I don't know what the tobacco came in. When I worked for CNCP, one o the techs in our office had a pipe. His tobacco was always in a pouch. I imagine a tin of tobacco would be larger and flatter, but that's just a guess.
Walking along the boardwalk at the beach, through clouds of smoke, is the closest I have been to your friend's specimens. On TV the "product" is usually in a clear plastic bag?

I have been a bit closer than that. :biglaugh:

EDIT: But not in a very, very long time.

Borad · Oct 16, 2014

Look at the horizontal (slightly diagonal) gouges. I don't think they're angled correctly to have been made by screwing a lid, and I think a wrench's teeth would make vertical marks. Also, the metal looks cast, but the threads look pressed rather than cut which is throwing me. I think this gets heavier use than we've been guessing.

CameraClicker · Oct 16, 2014

Borad said:
Look at the horizontal (slightly diagonal) gouges. I don't think they're angled correctly to have been made by screwing a lid, and I think a wrench's teeth would make vertical marks. Also, the metal looks cast, but the threads look pressed rather than cut which is throwing me. I think this gets heavier use than we've been guessing.

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Excellent analysis! Wrong! But, excellent analysis. Some of these are metal, others are plastic, this one is metal.