A friend received an old cigar case (thread here:http://www.cigarasylum.com/vb/showthread.php?t=60319 ) belonging to his great great grandfather. But the case contained 2 intact cigars. One has a band on it. It's by Sir Walter Lipton.

Does anyone have information about this old brand and have any idea what the value is?


Thanks!!

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A liittle google-fu tells me its a Sir Thomas Lipton, named for the man who founded Lipton Tea. If they are indeed from the time he was alive, chances are they were used as an advertisement for himself and Lipton Tea, which could date them back to the 1890s on up to the early 1900s. Either way, a cool find.
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A little more searching led me to this interesting little tid bit:

http://books.google.com/books?id=_1R...cigars&f=false

"In his early days Sir Thomas Lipton denied himself every pleasure except that of amassing a fortune. Calling one day on a Consul on business matters, he was offered a cigar by the official. 'No thank you,' said Sir Thomas (then Mr.) Lipton, 'Although I am the biggest smoker in England, I never smoke cigars.' 'What do you smoke?' was the surprised query. 'Bacon,' was the prompt reply."
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Was researching pictures of Sir Thomas. At first, thought maybe you guys were wrong, but I finally found an earlier picture and it certainly matches the bloke on the cigar band. You know, they all looked the same back then....

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Cross linking threads is highly discouraged.
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Cool chit anyway you look at it!!
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Depends on context, not a big issue in this case. :-)
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What's a crosslinking thread?
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The first post here, is a post, pointing to another thread, which has a link in it, which is pointing to this thread. Indeed kind of ..... :-)

I actually didn't notice it, until iaMkcK brought it up.

This one's rolling. The other has no replies. Rrocket should just have Admin pull the other and all willl be back to normal in our nut house.
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I don't think the cigars are of any value unless they have been humidified the whole time and even at that my hunch is they'll make like rice paper. There won't be much stuffing left. Nice looking cigar case though. Does he plan to use it?
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