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Old 09-26-2017, 10:11 AM   #11
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Good story Tony!
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Old 09-26-2017, 04:59 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by tonycsmoke View Post
I forget where I read it, but he smoked Mexican tobacco. There was a story about a dinner party he hosted. He pulled out a box of his cigars. He had switched them with a more expensive brand. He handed them out and supposedly everyone took the chance to throw them out not realizing what they were.
The story goes that be stole a box wit "red and gold bands", an expensive brand, while visiting a friend. He rebanded them with his own bands, and handed them around after dinner. He watched the grimacing and choking as the smokers strangled their way through the fine Havana smokes, even the guy he stole them from. Everyone left with the cigars in their hands, but the next morning, he found them all scattered around his lawn.

Take it for what it's worth. Even if he made the story up, it's God's honest truth that nine in ten people could be conned that way.

I've tried to remember what book that was in, no luck. It was probably in one of his essay books instead of stories.
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Old 10-02-2017, 06:03 PM   #14
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Perfecto?


Another Perfecto


Figurado.
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Old 10-02-2017, 06:31 PM   #15
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I believe in the late 1800s the perfecto was the most common cigar, but I was not around to witness it
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Old 10-02-2017, 07:42 PM   #16
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Perfectos were probably the most popular ones along with the corona size unless you count penny cheroots. If you look at advertising from the 1900s area you will see mostly Perfectos. Keep in mind that the king Edward perfection is an iconic stogies from the past.

As poor as the tobacco probably was, it supports what I have seen, mostly corona or perfection size.

You had to have a lot of time to go through a Cuban double corona. A desk to work at or a fine room to sit in. Otherwise they would just smoke several cheroots
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