CanuckSARTech Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 So, new jars are coming soon from San Ramon Producciones in Havana (further text and pictures can be found here): http://lights-sirens-and-cigars.com/2015/02/17/new-custom-cigar-jars-to-be-coming-soon-from-san-ramon-producciones/ Selected text: Ramon is getting set to release two new series of jars. One will be for the “Baire” brand. The above pictures show a wooden humidor with the Baire logo painted on it, and this will be the main logo / design applied to this particular jar series. This brand was a pre-revolution brand which stopped production sometime in the 1920’s Ramon stated, and is a brand that Habanos S.A. doesn’t hold a patent / copyright on. It’s even a logo on some of Ramon’s older jar-box labels: if you look at older packaging boxes for the Partagas-replica jars, that wonderful drawing of the Baire logo is on the label affixed to them. Anyways, Ramon stated that this jar will likely be a cream-white / off-white jar, similar in shape and overall design to the Partagas-replica and similar jars. These will be for a run of 200 jars, if I recall correctly, and will be $150 CUC’s each. Secondly, and more importantly for some, Ramon will be completing a run of jars in tribute to “La Patrona”. As the above pictures show, there was a framed print of the “La Patrona del Tabaco”, signed by Don Alejandro Robaina, and with a prayer medallion enclosed. As Ramon related to us in translation via Jose, La Patrona is a statue of the Virgin Mary holding a baby Jesus, and was originally brought over as a shrine by the Spaniards. When they founded the area in the Vinales valley region of the Pinar del Rio province, and eventually built the cathedral in either the city of Pinar del Rio or the region of Vinales (forgive me, as I can’t 100% remember that particular), they built a shrine to the Virgin Mary, and brought over an ornate statue of her and blessed it in 1895. With many tobacco plantations in the area, and the conversion of some Cubans over the previous decades to Christianity / Catholism, the farmers made her their own, re-christening her “La Patrona Del Tabaco”. There is also a shrine to La Patrona at Vegas Robaina, “Cuchillas de Barbacoa”, in San Luis y Martinez, within Pinar del Rio province. Ramon further elaborated to us that these jars would be in a run of only 120 jars, in honour of the 120th anniversary of her christening / arrival to bless the tobacco-rich western areas of Cuba. These jars apparently will be in a nearly identical dimension and curvy shape as the all-black Cueto jars as pictured above, and including some clay in the ceramic that was mined from the Vegas Robaina farm. The finish on the jars will be in a “virgin white” firing, and with the La Patrona artwork on one side (fairly similar to the framed card, and as Ramon’s business card also shows), and the other side will feature a representation of a harvest-time “farmer’s almanac” schedule to the planting/harvesting cycle which was apparently one of the recent ones hand-written by Don Alejandro himself and given to Ramon. These jars will be $150 CUC’s each as well, and when we were visiting, he was already pre-sold into jar number 66 or 67 out of the allotted 120-jar production run. He did state to us that he was hoping that these two new jar productions would start to be ready for the 2015 Festival Habanos, happening later on this month (yes, I was originally wanting to do this blog entry back in December, but unfortunately I was sidetracked). He did say it was likely that the entire runs would not be done, but that he’d have the first few of each started, and would hope that at the very least, he’d have a prototype version of each design at the ready, so that Festival Habanos participants would be able to see it in the flesh. Fingers crossed for him for that.
Lotusguy Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 Neat - do I assume correctly that these will be empty jars, not filled with cigars?
CanuckSARTech Posted February 17, 2015 Author Posted February 17, 2015 Neat - do I assume correctly that these will be empty jars, not filled with cigars? Correct.
Paul3 Posted February 17, 2015 Posted February 17, 2015 A nice piece to add to any collection. Thanks for sharing.
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