Inherited collection. No longer smoking.
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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.
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What I didn't show is the wooden humidor that these have been stored in.
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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. 👍
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@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.
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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 2014If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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@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.
@ScotchnSmoke sux lots of large wéiners. And tons of small ones.3 -
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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.0 -
@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.
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Such a shame to see cigars in that condition.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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@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.
"Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." - Proverbs 27:17
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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.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.
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Lesson learned.
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Sorry, can't be removed. It is immortal.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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Don't let something like heart surgery be a reason to stop smoking cigars, at least not after you've recovered.
"I could've had a Mi Querida!" Nick Bardis1 -
Well said old timer, I think you actually sped up since then.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give". Winston Churchill.
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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.
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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.
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@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.
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"If you do not read the newspapers you're uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you're misinformed." -- Mark Twain7 -
@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.
A good cigar and the open road solve most problems.
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I'm going to die in a boating accident.
Trapped in the People's Communist Republic of Massachusetts.
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So is my wife.
Don't let the wife know what you spend on guns, ammo or cigars.
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Did someone say Vintage D28 Martin… I am listening …
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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.
"Come on guys...you know the thing...its the thing you know..." J Biden
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👆🏻 That confuses me.
Smoking
Noun??
The action of….
Isn’t action designated by a verb?Help me out here professor @VegasFrank
If it don’t bother me, it don’t bother me. Just leave me alone.
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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.
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They usually ask how much do you smoke, expecting a pack/day answer, most look perplexed when you give them a cigar/day answer.
A little dirt never hurt1
