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1949 SOLITA PERFECTO HAVANA SINGLES
$45.00THESE CIGARS WERE MADE IN 1949 AT THE PENN CIGAR FACTORY IN JOHNSTOWN PA. THEY CONTAIN CUBAN TOBACCO AND MOST LIKELY ARE A PORTO RICO BLEND. THESE PERFECTOS ARE REALLY GOOD EXAMPLES OF PREMBARGO CIGARS. THE LINK BELOW SHOWS THE PENN FACTORY MACHINES IN ACTION AND THE SOLITA BOX AT THE END.
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ARTURO FUENTE ANEJO RESERVA NO 77 SHARK SINGLES
$45.00Arturo Fuente Anejo No 77 Shark stands out with its Maduro wrapper aged for 5 years in Cognac barrels. Blended by the skilled hands of Carlos Fuente, this masterpiece combines rare Dominican vintage tobaccos with a Connecticut Broadleaf Maduro wrapper. The Shark is known as one of the most iconic cigar shapes of all time! The Anejo sticks originated back in the 1990s when hurricane George struck the Domincan Republic and the Fuente tobacco fields. The storm led to a shortage of tobacco for their traditional Opus X cigars, thus used the Connecticut Broadleaf leaves to create these. These rare cigars are released only on Christmas and Father's Day!
Remarkable Product Attributes: AF Anejo No 77 Shark is one of the rarest Maduro cigars to find. A full-bodied and sweet square-pressed masterpiece made with a USA Connecticut Broadleaf wrapper aged in Cognac barrels.
Master Blender Tasting Notes: "Arturo Fuente Anejo No 77 Shark is a toothy Maduro that burns and smokes like a dream. It is rich and earthy, balanced by subtle but sophisticated spice notes and a long woody finish."
Accolades: Cigar Aficionado awarded A Fuente Anejo Reserva No. 77 a 93-point rating.
ZINO PLATINUM CROWN DOUBLE GRANDE TUBOS SINGLES
$45.00The Zino Platinum Crown Series Double Grande is a medium to full-bodied marvel that features pristine construction and elite tobaccos. This cigar starts out with a two-year-aged Ecuadorian Connecticut wrapper leaf, which conceals an aged Connecticut binder. This binder adjoins a blend of 5-year-aged long-fillers from the Dominican Republic and Peru. Expect rich notes of cocoa and vanilla with a delightfully spicy undertone. Each one of these cigars comes in a high-end aluminum tube to ensure freshness and protection!
COUNTRY: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
WRAPPER: ECUADOR
BINDER: CONNECTICUT
FILLER: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, PERU
STRENGTH: MEDIUM
COLOR: NATURAL
LENGTH: 7 1/2
RING SIZE: 50
1946 CADILLAC ATHLETIC CLUB HAVANA SINGLES
$50.00Manufactured one year after WWII, these cigars are hand made and 100% havana short filled. Produced in a torpedo/perfecto style, they are well made.
1998 SHAMAN DE ESTELI TORPEDO SINGLES
$50.00Very little information exists about this cigar. The trademark expired in 2010. FROM THE TRADEMARK OWNER: MY INTEREST IN THE WORD "SHAMAN" AND THE SYMBOL THAT REPRESENTS THE "SHAMAN". THIS SYMBOL WAS DISCOVERED IN A CAVE IN "ESTELI". NICARAGUA AND THAT IS WHY I INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE TOWN OF "ESTELI" SO AS TO IDENTIFY THE ORIGIN OF THE SYMBOL.
LFD ANDALUSIAN BULL SINGLES
$50.00CIGAR AFICIONADO REVIEW:
Here is an unusual, perhaps unfamiliar cigar that gleams with distinction but doesn't have much market history, as it only came out last summer. The wrapper is a striking hue somewhere between red and brown and the beautiful shape is all curves and tapers. Salomones, as they're known in cigar factories, are far from an easy cigar to craft. Look closely at the band, which is a shade of emerald green, and you see the letters "LFD": La Flor Dominicana. The cigar is called the Andalusian Bull, and nothing about it is typical.
But nothing about its creator, Litto Gomez is typical either. With Gomez, you'll find few of the tropes and stories typically associated with men in the tobacco business. No family history in tobacco. No Cuban lineage. No passed-down tobacco traditions. Born in Spain, but raised in Uruguay, Gomez came into the cigar industry in 1994 after a stint in the jewelry business went sour. His initial cigars were mild, but Gomez started getting the attention of premium smokers when he began producing stronger blends rolled in unusual shapes. Some will remember the El Jocko Perfecto No. 1 and all should know the wedge-shaped Chisel. Such odd shapes have become mainstays in the cigar world. Among serious smokers, the Chisel is now synonymous with La Flor Dominicana—which brings us to the Bull.
The La Flor Dominicana Andalusian Bull is a truly new concept within La Flor's portfolio of fine cigars. The size is based on that of an old cigar mold that Gomez found in Belgium. Naming it after Andalusia was a nod to Spain, the country where Gomez was born. And the silhouette of a matador on the band represents the celebrated history of the sport of bullfighting in Andalusia. That eye-catching shade of green is similar to that found on the Andalusian flag. But there's more to decode. The font on the band is based on Pablo Picasso's handwriting—he loved to paint bulls—and the scrollwork reflects patterns found on a bullfighter's uniform.
Fittingly, with this combination of heavy-handed and subtle symbolism comes a blend that is both bold and refined (like a bull and a matador). Gomez and his son Tony collaborated on the cigar and spent a fair amount of time fine-tuning the blend. The result was a cigar as intriguing in flavor as it is in appearance. It's a combination of Corojo-seed Ecuador Habano wrapper on a blend that consists primarily of Dominican Criollo '98 tobacco, a hybrid and a bit of Pelo d'Oro too. First impressions are bold and savory with strong notes of hickory and leather. But it continues to take on a complex spiciness of saffron and cumin as well as a slight tangy note that brings the strength and spice together quite gracefully—and it only gets better with every puff. Gomez owns the brand and company with his wife, Ines Lorenzo-Gomez. This marks the first time that La Flor Dominicana has been awarded No. 1 Cigar of the Year.
1940’s EMIL WOLSDORFF HAMBURG HAVANA BLEND SINGLES
$50.00It was “the great love of cigars” that prompted the Hamburg merchant Emil Karl Ferdinand Wolsdorff to open his first shop on May 7, 1907 on Georgsplatz in Hamburg. He wanted to operate a widespread trade in cigars and therefore planned two things: Firstly, the development of a WOLSDORFF own brand range with exclusive varieties, made by quality manufacturers in Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg. Second, the establishment of an extensive branch network in all major cities in Germany in order to achieve a nationwide distribution of its brands. Both were successfully created and expanded. Soon, in addition to WOLSDORFF cigars, the diverse range also included renowned imports, tobacco, cigarettes, pipes and accessories. WOLSDORFF quickly made a name for itself among smokers with a top-class selection and expert advice at the highest level. Selling high-quality tobacco products in an advisory capacity instead of distributing goods, that was and is the motto at WOLSDORFF: "If the customer leaves the shop satisfied, happy and feeling happy, then the specialist shop has properly fulfilled its service task," so it put it Werner Wolsdorff. There are now around 170 WOLSDORFF branches all over Germany. This box was purchased from a collector in Hamburg and it was sealed until opened for inspection in 2020.
1947 WEBSTER CINCO PERFECTO CLEAR HAVANA SINGLES
$50.00These Perfectos were made between 1945 to 1947. They are hand made with Havana long filler, a binder from Puerto Rico and a shade grown broadleaf wrapper. Dating was done by the logo style of the band and the 10 cent price. The price increased to 11 cents in 1947 as determined by dated magazine ads. These were in stores immediately following WWII,
1993 MACANUDO VINTAGE CABINET SELECTION NUMBER 1 SINGLES
$50.00Hand Made in Jamaica in a CHURCHILL vitola. Properly aged and rare find in original release. The meaning of "macanudo" in Spanish is "best of the best," or "first-rate." This definition is appropriate for the General Cigar line of the same name. The Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection line goes quite a bit beyond the brands normally high standards. The cigar makers at Macanudo look for the very best tobacco for the Vintage Cabinet line. In the world of Macanudo cigars, a vintage year comes along only when a harvest yields small quantities of filler, binder and wrapper leaves whose qualities are superior. Those quantities, which total less than one in one thousand leaves, are then set aside for a given year's Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection. The cigar makers' standards are so high that the Macanudo Vintage Cabinet line has only been produced four times; 1979, 1984, 1988 and 1993. General produced approximately 50,000 cigars of the 1979 vintage; 125,000 cigars of the 1984 vintage; 400,000 cigars of the 1988 vintage; slightly over 1 million cigars of 1993 vintage. The filler is from the Dominican Republic and Mexico. The binder is San Andreas Valley, Mexico tobacco chosen for tensile strength, flavor, and long, slow, even burning characteristics. The wrapper is a Connecticut Shade, grown from Havana-seed in the sandy, fertile soil of the Connecticut River Valley; the wrapper is from the 1993 tobacco crop. Cifuentes y Cia, Ltd. in Jamaica manufactures the Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection. The Macanudo Cabinet Vintage Series comes very highly rated.
Wrapper : CT Shade
Binder : Mexican San Andreas
Filler : Dominican/Mexican
1993 MACANUDO VINTAGE CABINET SELECTION NUMBER 3 SINGLES
$50.00Hand Made in Jamaica in a CORONA vitola. Properly aged and rare find in original release. The meaning of "macanudo" in Spanish is "best of the best," or "first-rate." This definition is appropriate for the General Cigar line of the same name. The Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection line goes quite a bit beyond the brands normally high standards. The cigar makers at Macanudo look for the very best tobacco for the Vintage Cabinet line. In the world of Macanudo cigars, a vintage year comes along only when a harvest yields small quantities of filler, binder and wrapper leaves whose qualities are superior. Those quantities, which total less than one in one thousand leaves, are then set aside for a given year's Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection. The cigar makers' standards are so high that the Macanudo Vintage Cabinet line has only been produced four times; 1979, 1984, 1988 and 1993. General produced approximately 50,000 cigars of the 1979 vintage; 125,000 cigars of the 1984 vintage; 400,000 cigars of the 1988 vintage; slightly over 1 million cigars of 1993 vintage. The filler is from the Dominican Republic and Mexico. The binder is San Andreas Valley, Mexico tobacco chosen for tensile strength, flavor, and long, slow, even burning characteristics. The wrapper is a Connecticut Shade, grown from Havana-seed in the sandy, fertile soil of the Connecticut River Valley; the wrapper is from the 1993 tobacco crop. Cifuentes y Cia, Ltd. in Jamaica manufactures the Macanudo Vintage Cabinet Selection. The Macanudo Cabinet Vintage Series comes very highly rated.
Wrapper : CT Shade
Binder : Mexican San Andreas
Filler : Dominican/Mexican
1948 LA UNA COUNTRY CLUB PERFECTO HAVANA SINGLES
$50.00THESE CIGARS WERE HAND MADE IN TAMPA FROM IMPORTED CUBAN TOBACCO AND WERE IN A SEALED TIN UNTIL OPENED FOR INSPECTION RECENTLY. THE DATE OF RELEASE OF 5-17-48 IS SHOWN ON THE TAX STAMP (BLUE LABEL).
2003 CAO GOLD CHURCHILL SINGLES
$50.00These Churchills were hand made in Nicaragua, among the first years at CAOs factory there.
CAO history
The hard work came from founder Cano Aret Ozgener, born in Moda – one of the nicer neighborhoods of Istanbul – in 1937. A Ping-Pong champion during his high school years in Turkey, Cano (pronounced "Jonno") emigrated to America in 1961 and graduated from Columbia University as an engineering major. Cano enjoyed smoking cigars and pipes – specifically meerschaums, artfully carved in Ozgener's native Turkey.
After graduating, Cano Ozgener worked as an engineer with DuPont; but his appreciation for a good pipe, coupled with his engineering prowess, got him to start tinkering with and modifying pipe stems during after-work hours in his basement in an effort to improve their performance. Cano sold a few of his modified pipes (in addition to some humidors he built) to some friends and local tobacconists…which led to Ozgener creating some pipes of his own, and selling them on a small scale. After years as a boutique businessman, Cano decided in 1977 that he wanted to expand. He left his job at DuPont to form his own company, naming it after his initials: C.A.O. International, Inc.
In 1980, Cano decided he was ready to put CAO cigars on sale. That came to pass with the introduction of Casa de Manuel. That first CAO cigar didn't last – a lack of consistency, along with a dying pre-boom market, doomed the smoke to the ashtray of history. Cano was able to fall back on his pipe and humidor business – that was, until the boom came calling. With the boom in full swing by 1995, Ozgener began to sell cigars again, this time a Honduran smoke made by Nestor Plasencia that was simply known as C.A.O.
The happy accident to which CAO Cigar owes its first success was actually borne out of a production problem on this original line of CAO cigars for sale. Cano launched a beautiful maduro, but it didn't burn well – prompting him to recall nearly 150,000 sticks with potential burn issues. The recall, along with product shortages, forced the Ozgener family to look for an additional supplier. Help came by way of Tabacalera Tambor in Costa Rica, the same place where Bahia was being made. Tambor delivered to the Ozgeners a rich and spicy black maduro with a red band, and which name-checked the Cuban Partagas Serie D No. 4 as one if its biggest influences. It was this new maduro, and the rave CAO cigar reviews that followed, that put CAO cigars on the map.
Within 8 years, the company would grow its CAO cigar offering dramatically, giving anyone looking to buy CAO cigars online a bunch of new choices – including CAO Gold, CAO Brazilia, Criollo, Double Maduro (or MX2), as well as their L'Anniversaire series and CAO Flavours. And thanks to the help of some other manufacturers, CAO found new suppliers when Tabacalera Tambor ceased production for the company. Nick Perdomo began making the maduro blend as it rose in popularity; and not long after, gave Cano a cigar with a delicate Cameroon wrapper. The Toraño family partnered up by making C.A.O. Brazilias in Honduras, and La Aurora started creating the CAO Flavors cigars at their factory in the Dominican Republic.
The Ozgeners would make the decision in 2003 to take control of the production of CAO cigars – and in doing so, make the switch from marketer to manufacturer. Cano bought into two factories: one in Nicaragua, and one in Honduras. The shift allowed C.A.O. control of their tobacco supply, as well as the opportunity to centralize its manufacturing – and brought production of its CAO maduro cigar from Tabacalera Perdomo to C.A.O. Fabricas de Tabacos in Estelí, Nicaragua. C.A.O.'s factory shared the space with the Toraño family's factory; the arrangement afforded the Ozgeners and the Toraños the access and ability to buy great tobacco together, and allowed for a close working relationship between the companies.
Fast forward to 2007: the CAO cigar brand grew internationally, as Henri Wintermans Cigars offered to buy CAO cigars from Ozgener. Based in Holland, Wintermans is a unit of Scandinavian Tobacco, one of the world's largest cigar makers at 1.3 billion sticks per year. CAO cigars were now being made in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. Three years later, the last remaining member of CAO's founding family left the company when Scandinavian Tobacco Group and Swedish Match merged, causing the ownership group to relocate CAO's corporate offices to Richmond, VA from Nashville.
Today, true to its roots in the Ozgener family creed of innovation in blending and in packaging, CAO Cigars production continues primarily in two locations: Honduras American Tabaco S.A. (HATSA) in Danlí, Honduras, home to C.A.O. Brazilia, Lx2, Mx2 and C.A.O. Italia, while La Traviata, La Traviata Maduro, C.A.O. Gold and C.A.O. Cx2 are produced in Estelí, Nicaragua at Scandinavian Tobacco Group Estelí.
ARTURO FUENTE DESTINO AL SIGLO DE AMISTAD ROBUSTO SINGLES
$50.00Arturo Fuente Destino al Siglo de Amistad celebrates a century of producing the most sought-after smokes on the market. It's an exquisite blend crafted to mark the brand's 100th anniversary. Blended with specially aged estate-grown tobaccos from the prestigious Chateau de la Fuente, this line diverges from the renowned Fuente Fuente OpusX by using a Habano seed. The result is the Arturo Fuente Gran Aniversario Destino al Siglo de Amistad, a cigar that caters to enthusiasts seeking a full-flavored, robust smoking experience.
1962 ROBT BURNS TIPARILLO SEALED PACK OF 5
$55.00THIS IS AN EXTREMELY RARE SEALED PACKAGE OF 5 ROBT BURNS TIPARILLOS. THERE ARE MANY ADVERTISEMENTS FROM THE EARLY 60s SHOWING THIS PACKAGE DESIGN AND ROBT BURNS HAD GREAT SUCCESS FROM THOSE CAMPAIGNS. I HAVE INCLUDED A FEW PHOTOS OF THEM.