Date of Old Cigarettes

[Davidoll]

Hi everyone,

I am hoping someone can help me here. I have two tins of vintage cigarettes which are sealed airtight so the contents are, generally, still good to smoke. I am trying to get a date on when they are from. I know from research the sealed tins stopped being produced in the late 1940's. The first is a tin of Senior Service with "NAAFI stores for HM forces" on the side and the other is Player's Navy Medium.

Thanks in advance

 

[riverstone]

I recognise the tins from my very young days in England. They were tins of 50 cigarettes to be supplied to HM Forces during wartime. I can't tell you exactly when they were stopped being issued but I know that in the sixties the troop issue was in cardboard cartons of 20,50 or 100. I had an uncle that worked on Airbases and he used to turn up at Christmas with Naafi stores A lot of stuff was still rationed in England until the mid fifties.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Players is still a Canadian brand. Maybe you could ask them.