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timo
10-20-2009, 04:30 PM
http://longisland.craigslist.org/for/1428856429.html
coastietech
10-20-2009, 04:32 PM
No clue but I would think for $250 you could get quite some really nice boxes of NC's and some downright great boxes of CC's...
The Poet
10-20-2009, 04:35 PM
Old cigars, would be my guess. :D

Maybe you can find some info @ www.nationalcigarmuseum.com. Good luck.
acarr
10-20-2009, 04:39 PM
I have no idea maybe the fore fathers of Cremoso's?
replicant_argent
10-20-2009, 04:40 PM
a scorched box bottom on an old box of cigars usually indicates they were lovingly cared for, and are typical of a vintage box of the type. Usually examples like this have a Toasty, Charcoaly, Dead Ashtray flavor, followed by a musty flair in the finish.
markem
10-20-2009, 04:48 PM
I have no knowledge of that marca. I have smoked recently cigars from 1919 and 1923 that were made with Cuban long filler and US wrappers. They smoked incredible. All the people who shared them on the puff pass were well versed in CCs and NCs and all stated that the cigars were quite good.

The price that they are asking is about average for such sticks. As with any cigar purchase from someone with whom you have no trust relationship: caveat emptor. That said, I know several people who do buy old cigars off ebay and such and have found some incredible cigars that way.
Kreth
10-20-2009, 05:59 PM
I'm no expert, but I don't think the box damage would help with appraisal, as far as being a collectible.
As for whether they're smokeable, I'm on a cell phone, but they look very dry. How well cared for can they be if the box was on fire at one point? :r
Oh, and according to Google, they were made by a now-defunct NY cigar company.
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kaisersozei
10-20-2009, 06:06 PM
While I was looking up "Cremo Cigars," the internet yielded this fabulous little tidbit:

Closer to the people in the photograph is a sign for Cremo cigars, which fell out of favor by 1929 when the company was accused of using saliva in its Cuban cigar-rolling process — prompting the slogan, "There's no spit in Cremo cigars."

:r
Riff Raff
10-20-2009, 06:15 PM
And you can buy THIS (http://http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Cremo-Cigar-Humidor-Advertising-Tin-World-Best_W0QQitemZ270469884201QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_De faultDomain_0?hash=item3ef942e929) to go with them!
kaisersozei
10-20-2009, 06:29 PM
Not to threadjack, but I found another reference to Cremo Cigars in this very interesting piece in Time magazine:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,931551-1,00.html

Note the date: Mar 4, 1935!
icehog3
10-20-2009, 07:06 PM
I dunno, but the singed box would scare me off at any price.
timo
10-20-2009, 07:23 PM
And you can buy THIS (http://http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Cremo-Cigar-Humidor-Advertising-Tin-World-Best_W0QQitemZ270469884201QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_De faultDomain_0?hash=item3ef942e929) to go with them!
Link no workey
Riff Raff
10-20-2009, 07:27 PM
Link no workey


http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Cremo-The-Worlds-Best-Cigar-Humidor-Tin-1900s_W0QQitemZ260469018842QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_D efaultDomain_0?hash=item3ca529d0da

Try this.
Skywalker
10-20-2009, 07:29 PM
"The world's best cigar"!!!

Sound's like an Arganese!!!

I'd buy those, just to say I did!!!:D
timo
10-20-2009, 07:29 PM
Not to threadjack, but I found another reference to Cremo Cigars in this very interesting piece in Time magazine:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,931551-1,00.html

Note the date: Mar 4, 1935!
Not sure why you consider that thread jacking as I wasn't asking peoples opinions about whether they would buy these or not. I was simply asking if anyone was familiar with these cigars.

The article is a very interesting read.
Kreth
10-20-2009, 07:30 PM
Link no workey
Try this (http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Cremo-Cigar-Humidor-Advertising-Tin-World-Best_W0QQitemZ270469884201QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_De faultDomain_0?hash=item3ef942e929).
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Riff Raff
10-20-2009, 07:31 PM
Try this (http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Cremo-Cigar-Humidor-Advertising-Tin-World-Best_W0QQitemZ270469884201QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_De faultDomain_0?hash=item3ef942e929).
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Thanks Jeff! You are one helluva guy!:tu
Blueface
10-20-2009, 07:35 PM
Found this link.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,931551-2,00.html
timo
10-20-2009, 07:36 PM
Try this (http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Cremo-Cigar-Humidor-Advertising-Tin-World-Best_W0QQitemZ270469884201QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_De faultDomain_0?hash=item3ef942e929).
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Yeah in my search I found one too.
http://www.richpennauctions.com/images/0001_0149forweb/0102.jpg

On a side note this link is from an upcoming auction listing with lots of old tobacco stuff going up.

http://www.richpennauctions.com/Descriptions/Master_Desc_List_A.htm
100-120 there about
timo
10-20-2009, 07:37 PM
Found this link.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,931551-2,00.html

same one as above
Kreth
10-20-2009, 07:37 PM
Thanks Jeff! You are one helluva guy!:tu
The wife handed me a wet baby fresh out of the bath while I was posting. Didn't see that you'd already posted a working link... :r
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timo
10-20-2009, 07:42 PM
The wife handed me a wet baby fresh out of the bath while I was posting. Didn't see that you'd already posted a working link... :r
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Nice. My wife hasn't handed me one of those in 19 years:D