My Pre-Embargo Havanas - pics

[vocalistbob]

I'm a regular on B&B and a long, long-time cigar smoker, but I never posted a message in this forum before.

This is my box of Pre-Embargo Havana cigars. It is sealed and has all of the original tax stamps and labels. I bought this box 20+ years ago at an auction. No one I know has any knowledge of the brand - just another anonymous mom-and-pop Cuban mfr.

 

[Commander Quan]

Very nice. Thanks for sharing.

 

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

I'm a regular on B&B and a long, long-time cigar smoker, but I never posted a message in this forum before.

This is my box of Pre-Embargo Havana cigars. It is sealed and has all of the original tax stamps and labels. I bought this box 20+ years ago at an auction. No one I know has any knowledge of the brand - just another anonymous mom-and-pop Cuban mfr.
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Bob:
Awesome pics...I wonder how they would smoke today?

I found out reading in Perelman’s Pocket Cyclopedia of Havana Cigars: 3rd edition that on the day that the Cuban Revolution took power on January 1, 1959, "Konuko cigars were produced for export from Cuba. Konuko cigars (don't know the formats offered), is listed in the official Cuba’s cigarmanufacturers (with addresses) which were then registered with the National Commission for the Propaganda and Defense of Havana Tobaccofor the export of cigars just prior to the start of World War II in the Western Hemisphere".

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"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the [cigar smokers] passion borders on the chaos of memories". Walter Benjamin

 

[vocalistbob]

Christopher: Thanks for that info. I have often wondered the same thing. I have stored them in a humidor, but that could be a futile gesture since I have no way of knowing how they were cared for during the 20 years before I bought them.

 

[Hunter]

I love cigars from all over but I have to say it is a point of pride that I can get Cubans from my local tobacconist.

 

[hotreds]

Depending on how long you have kept them in your humi, they might just be re-hydrated enough to be decent. Or, you might just have dust in the box.

 

[Commander Quan]

 

[hotreds]