Fisrt the density and color in the bands, Todays printing uses mineal pigment grown from natural resources, Print prior to 30's was dye based, Much higher tendency to fad, The foil stamping and metalic ink use back then would be very suspect too. To many indicators for much later technologies, not available to the cigar maker for that period. Some need to send a pic to the cigar box museum for verification
http://www.nationalcigarmuseum.com/Site/NCM_HOME.html
Originally Posted by landhoney:
What makes you say that?
They look much older than 70/80's to me (the band, the shape (that's no celestial finos), and the other cigars in the box), maybe not 1910, but pre-embargo at least I think, definitely not sure though.
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Originally Posted by xxx_busa:
The foil stamping and metalic ink use back then would be very suspect too.
I have a 1926 cigar with foil wrap, so I wouldn't discount it based on that...
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Originally Posted by Blueface:
Cubans suck.
Yah got sick of Elián real fast, but their cigars are delicious.
:-)
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