Inherited collection. No longer smoking.

starobin

Greetings all -
I hate to start off this way on my first post, but . . .
My older brother passed away in 1991 and I inherited his collection. After heart surgery last March I no longer smoke and am offering the collection to anyone interested.







Thanks for looking.

starobin

What I didn't show is the wooden humidor that these have been stored in.

Bob_Luken

DZR?
Otherwise…..
Wow, those are ugly. You have been very unkind to these cigars for over three decades. If you offered them for free and pre paid shipping, still nobody would have them.

Good joke post though. Good one. 👍

Bob_Luken

@starobin said:
Greetings all -
I hate to start off this way on my first post, but . . .
My older brother passed away in 1991 and I inherited his collection. After heart surgery last March I no longer smoke and am offering the collection to anyone interested.







Thanks for looking.

Rdp77

So this collection is from 1991? Am I reading that right?
Because I have a serious problem with that. Quite a few of these cigars were not being made in 1991. Just a for instance… the Diamond Crown was first released in 1995 and the Jericho Hill not until 2014

VegasFrank

@Bob_Luken said:
DZR?
Otherwise…..
Wow, those are ugly. You have been very unkind to these cigars for over three decades. If you offered them for free and pre paid shipping, still nobody would have them.

Good joke post though. Good one. 👍

Disagree. I would let them in my house if they showed up at the door for free and had a 20 stuffed into he humidor. Maybe Ian would too? PM me for my address.

Bob_Luken

starobin

Bob, I guess I needed to hear that. You know where the delete button is, right?
I'll remove the post since these are worthless.
I inherited the collection in 1991. Since that time I have added to it.
There is also a pre-Castro Cuban not pictured. It is a hand rolled item that my brother said he bought from a doctor who developed a heart condition and no longer could smoke. That's the oral provenance for that item. Of course I have no way to prove what it is. That's why I didn't list it. It's only my word, and my brother's and that doctor's.
As far as the collection's condition goes I have only myself to blame. I kept everything in the humidor and tried to keep them humidified, but honestly there were periods over the ensuing decades where the constant recharging of the humidifiers may have lapsed. Yes, they went through a few cycles of drying and rehumidification.
I sold his LP collection for about $13,000 over the years. I guess the cigars won't fetch anything. I was interested in finding his items, whether vinyl or tobacco, an appreciative home.
Ah, well.
I should have known better if I'd done a bit of research before posting these cigars.

peter4jc

What you should've done, @starobin, is showed up here with those LP's. Dang.

Bob_Luken

@starobin said:
Bob, I guess I needed to hear that. You know where the delete button is, right?
I'll remove the post since these are worthless.
I inherited the collection in 1991. Since that time I have added to it.
There is also a pre-Castro Cuban not pictured. It is a hand rolled item that my brother said he bought from a doctor who developed a heart condition and no longer could smoke. That's the oral provenance for that item. Of course I have no way to prove what it is. That's why I didn't list it. It's only my word, and my brother's and that doctor's.
As far as the collection's condition goes I have only myself to blame. I kept everything in the humidor and tried to keep them humidified, but honestly there were periods over the ensuing decades where the constant recharging of the humidifiers may have lapsed. Yes, they went through a few cycles of drying and rehumidification.
I sold his LP collection for about $13,000 over the years. I guess the cigars won't fetch anything. I was interested in finding his items, whether vinyl or tobacco, an appreciative home.
Ah, well.
I should have known better if I'd done a bit of research before posting these cigars.

Welcome to the forum. There may be a few in your collection that would be smokable. Find a local B&M or better yet a cigar club that you can call on locally and see what they think of the better-looking ones. And the humidor. Good luck.

Yakster

Agree, you'll probably have better luck with a local buyer.

ShawnOL

Such a shame to see cigars in that condition.

Hobbes86

@VegasFrank said:
Disagree. I would let them in my house if they showed up at the door for free and had a 20 stuffed into he humidor. Maybe Ian would too? PM me for my address.

Incorrect, I would let them into your house even if they didn't have a $20 stuffed in the humidor.

Patrickbrick

There are/were some damn good smokes there. However they are clearly dried out, moldy, and possibly had rh solution spilled on them. I’ll haunt, and torment whoever gets my collection if they neglect them like this.

starobin

Lesson learned.
Trying to remove post.

ShawnOL

Sorry, can't be removed. It is immortal.

peter4jc

Don't let something like heart surgery be a reason to stop smoking cigars, at least not after you've recovered.

Patrickbrick

Well said old timer, I think you actually sped up since then.

starobin

I'll definitely smoke that pre-Castro Cuban before I sell it or give it away, plus maybe some of the others. Cuban Davidoffs, Montecristos, etc.
I'm heartbroken over what I did to these beauties.
I sold my brother's pipe collection on eBay years ago. 23 pipes fetched $800.
A 1936 Martin D-28 guitar? We won't talk about that . . . .

Bob_Luken

@starobin.
I'm agreeing with @peter4jc , Your doctor may be lazy, giving you the generic advice on cigars. The health risk is probably not as bad as he/she thinks. Hell, most of them think we inhale.

dirtdude

I went to an optometrist this week who asked me about smoking, when I quizzed him about his line of questioning he said there is a box to check on the insurance forms. If the Dr informs me of the harm in smoking they get 'credit' which was not defined but I found interesting.

Amos_Umwhat

@dirtdude said:
I went to an optometrist this week who asked me about smoking, when I quizzed him about his line of questioning he said there is a box to check on the insurance forms. If the Dr informs me of the harm in smoking they get 'credit' which was not defined but I found interesting.

There is a growing field of inquiry, aka: Uncle Sugar sticking a nose into your business. My director of nursing came down on me back when I was still an actively working nurse, e.g. "You didn't ask this patient about smoking, why not?" He broke his arm, what does smoking have to do with that?

That was 10 - 20 years ago. Nowadays, it's progressed to "What gender do you consider yourself?". Still doesn't have anything to do with a broken arm, does it? But please don't be mad at the nurse, it's the mighty mogul government gender-bender overlords, who, by the way, are the ones making your most important health care decisions and then telling the doctors what they may and may not do for you.

I thank God daily that I'm retired. My penchant for openly expressing my opinion regardless of consequence would surely have me fired in todays corporate environment.

OutdoorsSmoke_21191

@dirtdude said:
I went to an optometrist this week who asked me about smoking, when I quizzed him about his line of questioning he said there is a box to check on the insurance forms. If the Dr informs me of the harm in smoking they get 'credit' which was not defined but I found interesting.

Be careful if the smoking box gets checked. Upon death, life insurance companies can deny your claim to payment of your dependents, IF you previously told them you are not a ‘smoker’. You should probably look at the small print on your life insurance coverage… Some have a waiver in there to access your records and some do not. But they all have access to cause of death and anything associated to it.

ShawnOL

I'm going to die in a boating accident.

d_blades

So is my wife.

EgoBoundary

Did someone say Vintage D28 Martin… I am listening …

NewbfromNEO

smoking
noun
the action or habit of inhaling and exhaling the smoke of tobacco by sucking on the end of a lit cigarette, cigar, pipe, etc.

in·hale

verb

inhaling
breathe in (air, gas, smoke, etc.).

I don’t inhale cigar smoke. Therefore I don’t smoke. I puff.

Rdp77

👆🏻 That confuses me.

Smoking
Noun??
The action of….
Isn’t action designated by a verb?

Help me out here professor @VegasFrank

CalvinAndHobo

I just tell every nurse/doctor/government employee that I'm a smoker, and don't elaborate. I don't want to get loopholed out of any kind of coverage in the event of a major medical problem. The extra money I have to pay is worth the peace of mind to me.

dirtdude

They usually ask how much do you smoke, expecting a pack/day answer, most look perplexed when you give them a cigar/day answer.