“Our belief no finer Leaf”. This was their message delivered by the butler with his tray, on which lay a pack of Kensitas. Available in 10’s and 20’s sleeve form with the gift coupons (golden brown in colour) inside. Novel silk cards were also given away with the packs before gift coupons, the most famous being the sets released in the 30’s ‘Kensitas Silk Flowers’. The butlers name was ‘Jenkyn’ and he always presented the cigarettes and various slogans were used over the years.

A very unusual pack sent in by a member is K4-24 cigarettes, ‘20 for you and 4 for your friends’. Jenkyn’s message this time is ‘As good as really good cigarettes can be’.

LETTER FROM COLIN CLARK

My Nan was reminiscing with my Granddad one day, just before he passed away unexpectedly. She was going over how life had turned out for her coming from a mining community in Alfreton, Derbyshire where as a young girl she once said to her father how she would like to marry a man that dressed just like the man on the front of the Kensitas Cigarette packet, a man who dressed very smartly in a suit all day long. Her Father laughed and dismissed the idea stating that men where they lived and worked didn't look anything like the Butler on his Cigarette packet as men there were all connected to the mining industry!

Time passed by and years later she met my Granddad who had worked all his life as a Head Waiter / Restaurant Manager, he dressed in a suit and tails all his working life just like the man on the Cigarette packet! My Nan thought this was highly amusing while telling my Granddad this story. It was at this point my Granddad told her that the man on the Kensitas Cigarette packet was in fact his Father! A minor detail don't you think? They had only been together for almost 70 years and it had never been mentioned!

Strange but true wouldn't you say? My Nan had in some bizarre way predicted who she was going to marry while she was a little girl.