TPG - Scrapps Tobacco

[Jay Wolt]

Just saw this on eBay, still listed as "scrapps tobacco" in their newest slab

[jcmtiger]

Just sold these. Identified as 1888 Scrapps Tobacco.

[Al C.risafulli]

As the guy who discovered the H.D. Smith thing, this frustrates me to no end.

-Al

[darkhorse9]

I'm communicating with SGC and seem to be getting a bit of resistance. They don't seem to want to answer the question about relabeling a Scrapps Card as H.D. Smith & Co. unless I send my card into them.

Seems like an easy question. If I send it in, will you label it as H.D. Smith & Co. or not.

[Republicaninmass]

Sgc is now the biggest group of boobs on the planet. They sent back my cleared marked and chosen on their dropdown 1952 gray backs/Canadian and said the no longer label them. ReA had a group labeled by them last month. They didn't even know what I was referring to when I showed them their drop down menu, their email saying they wouldn't identify them, and the REA auction with new labels that clearly say gray back. Filed and won with my credit card. I wouldnt send them my excrement to slab.


Choice if Net 54, unless psa slabs it instead

[Leon]

Originally Posted by Al C.risafulli

As the guy who discovered the H.D. Smith thing, this frustrates me to no end.

-Al

+1

I didn't discover anything but I wish the TPG's would quit calling things "Hand cut" when they never were and aren't.
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[ksfarmboy]

I always thought the Scapps part referred to the fact they were made to be put in scrap books. When did the Scapps become part of tobacco?

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by ksfarmboy

I always thought the Scapps part referred to the fact they were made to be put in scrap books. When did the Scapps become part of tobacco?

I thought it referred to the type of tobacco.

Scrap: A category in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's grading system denoting tobacco that has been broken into small pieces; scrap does not include any portion of the tobacco stems. Scrap results from handling tobacco during processing or manufacturing, whereas broken leaf results from handling that occurs prior to processing.

[ksfarmboy]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

I thought it referred to the type of tobacco.

Scrap: A category in the U.S. Department of Agriculture's grading system denoting tobacco that has been broken into small pieces; scrap does not include any portion of the tobacco stems. Scrap results from handling tobacco during processing or manufacturing, whereas broken leaf results from handling that occurs prior to processing.

Yes but the Victorian trade cards and different litho pieces were also referred to as scraps. I’ve went through several of these Victorian scrapbooks and have alway heard the pieces described as scraps. I just wondered if someone had made the wrong conclusion that these were the scrap tobacco instead of the term scraps for scrapbook.