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Sensational cigar auction in London

- Aroma de Cuba


Cohiba Siglo Humidor

Cohiba Siglo Humidor
Sensational cigar auction in London: 53 lots at $1,500 or more!

The economy may be dreadful, but that did nothing to stop the heavy bidding at the second Vintage Cigar Auction staged by Cgars Limited of London on June 21.

Ana Lopez, the marketing director at Habanos SA (who make Cohiba cigars) said: "This is the most expensive line ever produced in Cohibas and we are expecting that it will be very well received."There were a total of 172 lots in the auction, of which 167 sold, many at stunningly-high prices. Some 53 of the lots sold for 1,000 British Pounds or more (about $1,492 U.S.), with the top price of 9,500 Pounds ($14,176) paid for Lot 135, the rare Cuaba Salomones II Humidor. Issued in only 45 editions in 1999, it includes 45 of the Salomones II size (6 7/8 inches by 57 ring) in an elegant chest and sold for more than double the pre-sale projected price!

The rest of the top ten by final price:

(2) Lot 75: The celebrated cabinet of 50 pre-embargo Romeo y Julieta Piramdos No. 1 (6 1/8 x 52) – reportedly Winston Churchill’s favorite post-War cigar – which sold for 6,400 Pounds ($9,550).

(3) Lot 133: The “Che Humidor” by Elie Bleu from 2005, containing 68 specially-made cigars, sold for 5,200 Pounds ($7,759).

(4) Lot 150: the 135-cigar Cohiba 35th Anniversary Humidor issued in 2001, sold for 5,000 Pounds ($7,460).

(5) Lot 60: A cabinet of 50 Ramon Allones Magnums (5 5/8 x 46) from the 1960s, sold for 4,200 Pounds ($6,267).

(=6) Lot 100: A cabinet of 50 pre-embargo Dunhill Seleccion Suprema (Montecristo) No. 1 (6 1/8 x 42), which sold for 4,000 Pounds ($5,969).

(=6) Lot 106: A cabinet of 50 Dunhill Seleccion Suprema (Hoyo de Monterrey) No. 169 from 1966, sold for 4,000 Pounds ($5,969).

(8) Lot 134: The Cohiba Siglo X Aniversario Humidor, containing 89 cigars with 15 each of the Siglo I-VI sizes (one Siglo I missing), which sold for 3,700 Pounds ($5,522).

(=10) Lot 99: A partial box of 35 (out of 50) Don Candido No. 502 (5 x 43) from the 1970s, which sold for 3,600 Pounds ($5,373).

(=10) Lot 149: A cabinet of 50 Cohiba Lanceros (7 1/2 x 38) from 1999, which sold for 3,600 Pounds ($5,373).

Two lots of ancient cigars – at least 98 years old – sold for relatively modest prices. A partial cabinet of 19 Cabanas Corona Grandes (5 3/4 x 40) sold for 380 Pounds ($567) and a partial cabinet of 28 H. Upmann Sonrisas (4 3/4 x 42 perfectos) sold for 580 Pounds ($866).

There was also plenty of action on Havana-made Davidoff and Dunhill-brand cigars. Of note was a cabinet of five Dunhill Havana Club giants – 9 1/4 inches by 47 ring in individual, slide-top coffins – which sold for 1,550 Pounds or $2,312 . . . $462.40 per cigar!

However, that wasn’t the highest price paid for a single cigar in the auction! That honor went to a pre-embargo Partagas Visible Inmenso, a glass-tubed giant of 21 inches long and about 56 ring gauge, made for Jack & Charlie’s in New York (now known as the “21 Club”), which sold for 400 Pounds or $597! A replica of this cigar, made for the 11th Partagas Festival in 2002, sold for 160 Pounds ($239)!

It was a sensational auction and an event which is now firmly set on the calendar of Havanophiles. Congratulations to Cgars Ltd. impresario Mitchell Orchant and his team; full details of all lots and final prices are available on the Cgars Limited Web site.

- Aroma De Cuba

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