Bolivar BF - Signed Cigar Band

[nachorunner]

I spoke to a few people about this and they all suggested I post the brief story and images here.  

Last September I bought a few boxes from a "cracking" offer on here. One of the boxes was a Bolivar Belicos Fino ... my personal favorite habano. I let them rest and started to break into them over the past month (Side note - I believe the box had a 2017 year marking)

The sticks have been great with that signature Bolivar flavor so many enjoy...speaking of signature, I removed the band as it was becoming loose and found a secret message ?

I was smoking with a buddy and we both thought it looked like someone's signature "A... G... II"

Of course there's no way to be sure what it really says but I will say in all my years of smoking, I've never seen a signed band/note on a cigar and thought it was pretty neat. 

Anyone else seen this before on one of your cigars??

[nachorunner]

Not sure why the images are showing rotated 90 degrees ... that's not how they looked on my end.

I feel like a lot of people are going to look as though they are suffering from Taco Neck Syndrome today trying to view these pictures ?

 

[nKostyan]

Partagas Culebras Band

[aphexafx]

Off topic: The rotation is because your images have orientation info in their metadata that tell your viewer how to orient them, but this is ignored by everything else, including our web browsers.  Just use an image editing program to open, orient, and resave, which will affect the actual raster data and make them display correctly by default.  ?

[nachorunner]

4 minutes ago, nKostyan said:

Partagas Culebras Band

Thanks for sharing nKostyan - the person who signed yours has slightly better handwriting than my signer!

6 minutes ago, aphexafx said:

Off topic: The rotation is because your images have orientation info in their metadata that tell your viewer how to orient them, but this is ignored by everything else, including our web browsers.  Just use an image editing program to open, orient, and resave, which will affect the actual raster data and make them display correctly by default.  ?

Awesome recommendation ... thanks for the help!

[aphexafx]

I think you're just seeing factory batch notes, probably having to do with distributing bands out to the workers, etc.  Those were probably from the top of a stack or something.

[nKostyan]

I asked my Cuban-friend, he said, probably the factory worker by the name of Pico received 55 bands for a work

[Corylax18]

I have seen this 3 or 4 times before. Sometimes just initials (two letters) other times more, but never anything I've been able to translate/decipher.

[El Presidente]

I have seen complete notes in mastercases.  The most memorable was Enrique getting a tongue lashing from his girlfriend who accusing him of seeing someone else. 

I am backing she was right 

[SCgarman]

1 hour ago, El Presidente said:

I have seen complete notes in mastercases.  The most memorable was Enrique getting a tongue lashing from his girlfriend who accusing him of seeing someone else. 

I am backing she was right 

What happens in the rolling room stays in the rolling room! 

[houdini]

 

[houdini]

On my QD

[CaptainQuintero]

  I've got odd ones, mostly numbers etc, I'm guessing like others have said they're mostly referencing bundle numbers etc

  You occasionally get odd bits of stuff that makes sense