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[El Presidente]

Welcome to:

         "Snapshot Snippets: Cigar Edition."  

 

I post a photo. 

 

• Members can post one "snippet" of information on the photo "one only" otherwise the post will be deleted. 
• Each piece of information receives a ticket into a sampler draw once the thread is considered to be completed. 
• One post per member on any thread. This stops Alex Groom from winning 

The objective?

To "deep dive" the item in question. Delve every nook and cranny for relevent information (as determined by mods) that moves the needle in further illuminating to the photo in question. 

 

You will quiclky get the hang of it !

 

 

 

Let's kick off with the following photo. 

 

 

 

[Fugu]

RyJSC

[GP012]

Tubos

[El Presidente]

What release year?

 

[LizardGizmo]

What release year?
 

2011?


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[Jimmy2]

1969

[ATGroom]

2 hours ago, El Presidente said:

What release year?

 

2 hours ago, LizardGizmo said:

2011?


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It's 2009 (May).😜 Does that count as my snippet?

[LizardGizmo]

3 minutes ago, ATGroom said:

It's 2009 (May).😜 Does that count as my snippet?

[chasy]

Ken Jennings has entered the chat…

[Puros Y Vino]

15 count RyJ Short Churchill Tubos humidor. A/P distributor release. I'll go with Alex on release year. 😁

[Stevieboy]

I think this was Spain only IIRC.

[Shakey]

Looks like the Western Europe Short Churchill humidor. CCW says a 2011 release but I’m not going to disagree with @ATGroom.   

[El Presidente]

Was their a limit to the number made? 

[ATGroom]

6 hours ago, Shakey said:

Looks like the Western Europe Short Churchill humidor. CCW says a 2011 release but I’m not going to disagree with @ATGroom.   

7 hours ago, Stevieboy said:

I think this was Spain only IIRC.

I would say that CCW note is inaccurate. Have removed.

This box was brought up in a different group a few years ago where they got an answer from Tabacalera directly, so I'd go with their answer (which was May 2009). Originated from Spain, although they did get around a bit.

[Chucko8]

It's a great looking box! That's all I've got.

[Jaks93]

Bloody tough nut to crack! 🤔

[joeruby]

There was no set number limited release.

[Fugu]

On 8/30/2024 at 3:14 AM, ATGroom said:

I would say that CCW note is inaccurate. Have removed.

This box was brought up in a different group a few years ago where they got an answer from Tabacalera directly, so I'd go with their answer (which was May 2009). Originated from Spain, although they did get around a bit.

They didn't reach shelves rest of Europe much before 2012, and you can find the 2011 statement still on some webshops. But perhaps that was just the Spanish overrun.

[zeedubbya]

Feature I love in a Tubos Box…

Includes a humidifier— WHY? 

[Fugu]

5 hours ago, zeedubbya said:

Feature I love in a Tubos Box…

Includes a humidifier— WHY? 

They don’t trust their own packaging.

Seriously, that plastic thingy costs bugger all and you can call the box a “humidor”… Inflates the size of the box, as does the wooden spacer included, so looking more impressive (see New Gold Medal…). Bonus to boot – it’s completely dysfunctional anyway, like in other humidor boxes and jars.

[JRB]

This was a release that I never had.

[Cigar Surgeon]

Humidor.

Scratch that. Short Churchills tubo case. 2011 release, Western Europe.

[zeedubbya]

4 hours ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

Humidor.

Scratch that. Short Churchills tubo case. 2011 release, Western Europe.

@Cigar Surgeon you may be right—it has a humidifier, no seal though… but WAIT, maybe when you humidify Tubos the green foam has some magic power of penetrating the Tube..may be a great @PigFish experiment-how does a green foam block react to opening a non-sealed case, when metal Tubos are inside… 🤯 …🤔…

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[Chibearsv]

18 hours ago, Cigar Surgeon said:

Humidor.

Scratch that. Short Churchills tubo case. 2011 release, Western Europe.

[Capn_Jackson]

Of all the RyJ’s ever made, those are some. 🙃