Saving dry sticks.

[Yojimbo]

I have a friend of a friend that is finalizing his fathers estate. Part of that estate is a humi containing about 65 sticks. Since none of them smoke, it was passed to me. Apparently they sat for about 4-6 months with zero care. Some of them got pretty dry, others not so bad.

There's some vintage stuff in here, and I'd hate to see it wasted, so any advice would be welcomed.

I've seen a few Punch in tubes, some RyJ, 3 opus x with some serious age, and 2 marked "macanudo Jamaica vintage 1988"

Identifying these is going to be an adventure/challenge/royal pain.

 

[CBoukal]

I had a box I found about 6 months ago that had been sitting for over a year i my closet with no care, I put a XL tube of 70% beads in there and check them every month. I would say they are pretty good again, however I haven't smoked one yet

 

[tomthirtysix]

Do you have the humidor, too? If so, I assume you'll want to get that up and running. Take the cigars out while you reseason it. As far as the cigars go, it really depends on the cigars themselves if they can be saved. The only thing you can do is slowly bring them back up to the desired humidity. If you put them in a 70% box, they're likely to explode. Hopefully the oils in the cigars aren't completely dired out and you can salvage them somewhat.

 

[NorcalMark]

tupperware with some boveda bags. It's not a quick process, but is it the easiest way.

While they will never be the same as when they were first purchased; due to the loss of oils in the tobacco. They will become moist again and smokeable.