Cigars came in boxes of 25!
jw517
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Way back when,I always saw cigars sold in boxes of 25,a pak of 5, or singles. I know the answer to this question,but it just hurts me in my gizzard. Why do they have to mess with the counts all the time? Now you see box of 18. Pak of 15. Box of 21! Do they really think we don't get the fact they are hiding the price. Making it hard to compare prices. Just selling less for more! Yes ,this might be a dumb thread but it pisses me off a little. I'll buy 25! Signed: Grumpy Old Man
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It'll be fine once the swelling goes down.
ok,fine! I'll just sit here all alone thinking back to when my 6th grade teacher told me there are no dumb questions. Tear,tear.
"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain
I roll cigars. When I find a blend good enough to stash, I will store a batch in a cigar box and stuff the box in a giant coolidor to age. I get the boxes for a buck apiece from the local cigar store. I'll get cedar boxes that have a hinged lid with a clasp and a **** to seal the deal. I root round my shelf of boxes and grab one I like, then I see how many gars will fit. Right now, for instance, I'm boxing up a stash of coronas. One leaf Mata Fina, two leaves Vuelta Abajo seco, Dominican Olor binder, w/ Criollo wrapper, makes a gar about 5 1/2" x 43 rg. Nice little smoke with plenty volume, lasts about an hour & a half & up to two hours. I chose a nice little Nat Sherman Host Selection Hamilton box that I like. Those Nats came 5 1/2" x 42 rg, 25 to the box. I find I can fit 24 of mine in this box, four layers of six, if I stagger the layers a bit. I could jam 28 in there, four layers of seven, but they'd wind up slightly box pressed. The standard 20 would leave a gap either way. Some store bought boxes, you'll see a chunk of cedar to correct the count. So here's my point: Nat might order up, say, twenty thousand boxes of the precise size to hold robustos, but the box factory sends him slightly the wrong size. He punts. Or he might order 20k boxes to hold 20 robustos each, use 10k, and put the rest of his boxes to work on coronas. There's any number of things might go into it.
Division solves for price per in any case.
FX Smith's Sons still packs fifty to a box. Half-wheels and wheels used to be a thing; I never see them packed that way nowadays. I dunno that there's a standard. Topper has boxes of 30 -- dunno anyone else who does. Frequently, you'll see ads that look like a dynamite deal ... then you discover it's for boxes of ten. Here's an old framed label for Blue Ribbon cigars. FX've been making those for like 130 years. The label used to go round a modest wheel of cigars -- I dunno how many -- that were packed in cans like cookie tins, label pasted round it:
Two gars for 15 cents. Can't beat that.
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Overall the plants did pretty well and topped out around 6 feet tall.
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I ordered mine here --- http://www.victoryseeds.com/tobacco.html.
Pretty sure I have some left. Let me know if you're interested, I'll check next week and if so, I can certainly send you some.
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Love those boxes. Absolutely the best cedar flanges I've seen. Inch and a quarter high.