Dark Opus X bands.

[Yojimbo]

Are these different or just aged?

These came in the box of dry sticks I posted about a couple weeks ago. There were another handful of Fuentes in there.

Anything stand out there?

 

[DePasta]

Last time I saw Opus bands like those it was water damage...oxidizing the ink.

 

[grateful1]

If only someone had a website....hmmmm!

 

[Yojimbo]

I'm also curious about these guys.

 

[DePasta]

Knew I saw this somewhere...

http://www.vitolas.n...album=25&pos=15

Grateful is great!

 

[Yojimbo]

If only someone had a website....hmmmm!

I'd browsed there, but must have missed that. Thanks. =)

 

[grateful1]

I'm also curious about these guys.

If only someone else had a website...hmmmm!

 

[CBoukal]

Sometimes All the time I am just amazed at how much this community knows... and how fast they come up with pics

 

[CigarMan Andy]

The Dark Opus band is from the Forbidden X, but those don't look like Forbidden nor do the have the second band that most forbidden have. Those bands don't look real.

Forbidden band

Special CFCF band

Regular band

 

[grateful1]

The Dark Opus band is from the Forbidden X, but those don't look like Forbidden nor do the have the second band that most forbidden have.

 

[Yojimbo]

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree with the water issue. Your pic shows gold flake on the bottom of the band, where mine is all black.

These are from a box that I got from a friend who's dad passed away and no one else in the family smokes.

All of them were pretty dry, and some in rough shape, so I didn't have high expectations on any of them, but thought I'd check.

I'm more curious about the ones I don't recognize, like the Macanudo's, and some that I can't identify at all, but don't want to post pics of.

 

[tomthirtysix]

Every few years (or at least they used to, don't know if they do anymore), Macanudo releases a vintage when they feel the wrapper crop that year was exceptional. Seems those you have are probably from the last time Mac used Jamaican tobacco. Later on that year, a hurricane hit Jamaica and put a serious hit on their tobacco industry.


Edit: I thought Macanudo moved out of Jamaica shortly after 1988, but from Gary's 2nd link, it seems they were still there in 1993.

Edit 2.0: Maybe that was right. From an article in CA from 1999:

Gore knows hurricanes all too well. In September 1988, Hurricane Gilbert slammed into Jamaica at full strength, maiming the nation's cigar industry. The storm destroyed Gore's factory in Kingston, which had stood since his grandfather James Frederick Gore founded Royal Jamaica in 1935, and ruined 1,000 acres of tobacco in May Pen. It was the worst natural disaster to befall Jamaica since the 1907 earthquake that turned Kingston into rubble. Because of Gilbert, the Jamaican tobacco industry was set back several years, production of Royal Jamaica cigars was shifted to the Dominican Republic, and Jamaican tobacco was no longer used in the island's biggest brand, Macanudo.

http://www.cigaraficionado.com/webfeatures/show/id/Jamaicas-Cigar-Comeback_7315

 

[maduro89]

such a drag.. do they smell like amonia or feel really spongy?

 

[broblues]

What a shame. Some great sticks there.

 

[Yojimbo]

such a drag.. do they smell like amonia or feel really spongy?

Not at all. They were very dry when I got them ( as in needed to be in a humidor, not " never been wet") They smell like...cigars.

 

[insight]

Smoke em, they may be just fine.

 

[Yojimbo]

That's the plan, if they're horrible I'll toss em, but no harm in trying.