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That's amazing! I wonder if they have been properly stored and if they are Cuban!

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Wow, look at those 'gars! They appear like they're gonna crumble to dust upon touch!

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I see all kinds of Imperial Germany tokens. Are these from a WW1 military ration?

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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?

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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 ??

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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 :

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Nino

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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... blush.gifblush.gifblush.gif

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