rsanz Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 34x 95 year old vintage cigars for the hard core collector (and a pipe and a toy gun for good measure)... Hermann Historica Auctions
pjansen Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 That's amazing! I wonder if they have been properly stored and if they are Cuban!
cigcars Posted April 13, 2012 Posted April 13, 2012 Wow, look at those 'gars! They appear like they're gonna crumble to dust upon touch!
sblevit Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 Interesting. But the cigars look like crap. Who would pay for those?
Ginseng Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 I might shellac 'em and hang them in my office as a display of cigars from bygone days. Wilkey
Michel1968 Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 I see all kinds of Imperial Germany tokens. Are these from a WW1 military ration?
CaptainQuintero Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 I see all kinds of Imperial Germany tokens. Are these from a WW1 military ration? Maybe officer's ones? I've seen the ration ones from both World Wars for Germany and they are....rustic to say the least! Possibly a German brand who put special Imperial bands on during the war?
Nino Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 Translation : The cigars are from the "Wendt"cigar factory that sent them to wounded airmen of the 1-st Fighter Sq. in X-mas 1917 and there is the copy of the letter sent. Commander of the 1-st FS was Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron" The pipe is a souvenir from the 5-th Army for X-mas 1914. The pistol is a toy pistol with 100 blasting caps in the can - maybe those are the tokens you see ??
Nino Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 As for smoking the cigars : We have smoked 100 yr old cigars in 2003- they were smokeable but too dry and burned too fast, like proverbial dry leaves ... so to say. No aroma, no taste, no nothing - no repeat for me :-) Of course they were not stored properly, not cubans and who knows what happened to them in the last 100 years ... The cigars were originally from a tobacconist in the -then - German Alsace, Otto Sennhauser from Strassburg and bought at an antique fair by a friend. They were in their original paper envelopes dating them and came with a brochure advertising them in those times, they were 7 Pfennigs or 4 cents then. http://www.flyingcigar.de/smoking_cigars/2003_11_100-jahrige_zigarren_und_alter_wein.php Nino Here's a (crappy ) picture : Nino
Michel1968 Posted April 14, 2012 Posted April 14, 2012 Translation : The cigars are from the "Wendt"cigar factory that sent them to wounded airmen of the 1-st Fighter Sq. in X-mas 1917 and there is the copy of the letter sent. Commander of the 1-st FS was Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron" The pipe is a souvenir from the 5-th Army for X-mas 1914. The pistol is a toy pistol with 100 blasting caps in the can - maybe those are the tokens you see ?? Oh my... I didn't see the link in the original message...
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