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What’s the most expensive cigar accessory you ever bought?
By Daniel | March 7, 2008
Inspired by Adam Snider’s recent comment on our post asking about the most you ever spent on a cigar, we have a new one for you:
What’s the most you’ve spent on a cigar accessory? (Cutter, lighter, humidor, etc.) What was it? Does it hold any special significance?
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March 7th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I have to imagine it is going to be tough for anyone to have spent the most on anything but a humidor. Especially anyone who owns a cabinet humidor.
So I will go with what I think of as my most extravagant, if not most expensive purchase.
Listing for $59.99, this item was “specialed” by the Corona Cigar Co. with four of their super-premium house cigars, each costing $10 or more in the box/pack, at the same 59.99 price.
An alleged alligator skin four cigar pocket case with cedar lining and alleged buffalo horn cap. Seems so retro - so caveman almost - “Mmm, dead animal parts good.”
It’s a nice case. I wish it did not include a “Corona Cigar” medallion on it (not shown in any photos).
Hey, Upmann lovers, TCC is offering this same case as a throw-in with a box of Upmann Signature Double Eagles at $117. I have paid $109 for a bhox of these smokes and that is about normal, so this seems like a fair deal. (Be warned, this will probably have a TCC medallion on it)
March 7th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Oh, forgot to say, my cabinet was $329.
March 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Damn, that alligator skin cigar case sounds pretty cool.
Glad to see you’re enjoying the site, FNA!
March 7th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
As I mentioned in the comment that inspired this post, I haven’t really spent a ton of money on accessories. I’m a bit of a cheapskate, so I try to spend as little as possible without sacrificing quality.
Through the magic of eBay, I’ve been able to keep my costs low, and I think my most expensive item has been my (admittedly small) humidor, which cost me about $30 or $40 dollars. The closest equivalent that my local shop has costs almost twice that amount.
Luckily, I tend to smoke my cigars almost as fast as I buy new ones, so my small humidor has been working well so far. But, I think I’m going to need to upgrade to a bigger one, soon, which will likely see me spending several hundred dollars.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
How big a humidor will you be buying, Adam?
March 8th, 2008 at 12:54 am
I’m going to buy a cabinet humidor eventually, currently I’m using 3 large desktop humidors. The smallest one actually cost me the most. It is a Savoy blue desktop humidor that I bought at a charity benefit auction for $75. It was for a good cause and I love the color.
March 8th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Jesse,
I would forget the “eventually” as to a cabinet humidor.
You say “currently I’m using 3 large desktop humidors”. My experience has been that the first “eventually” to occur will be that you will see a box deal too good to pass up or get a desire for some cigars too strong to resist and you’ll have to get another desktop for these new purchases and then another and so on.
Had I known how many cigars I would eventually end up owning I would have bought either bigger or multiple cabinets.
The one cabinet I do own is the Trivoli from Tampa Humidor, an honest 1,000 count ‘half-cabinet’ (about 3 feet tall).
March 8th, 2008 at 10:09 am
I keep my purchases to a minimum. As a rule I don’t use a credit card to purchase any cigars. I got to have the money in the checking account or I don’t buy them. This wasn’t always the case. :) The main thing keeping me from getting the cabinet now is space. I’ve got a small house with no basement. It was the perfect size when I was chidless but now with three kids, heh, let’s just say I hide in the garage an awful lot. :)
March 8th, 2008 at 10:10 am
Adam,
You mentioned “Through the magic of eBay”. I assume you mean for humidors? What models, if any, have you bought?
I have had luck with 3 1/2 humidors from E-bay - I mean real satisfaction, at least on the 3 of them, another I am only half-satisfied with and one was a piece of crap (which I should have guessed).
I looked recently and they no longer sold what might be my favorite e-bay humidor, the “Unique 4-drawer 120 count”, which I use as my daily smokes box.
Holds an honest 100 full size torpedoes. Using the bottom drawer for coronas, I fill the box to about 110. If this humidor has any cedar component as alleged, I couldn’t find it, but over the course of a year, I’ve lined all the drawers with the cedar insert/dividers one gets in some five packs and boxes.
100 count, cedar lined - $14.99. Yowza!
March 8th, 2008 at 10:12 am
That’s a good buy! I got an antique metal lined one that I’m going to refinish for $6. I need someone with some wood working tools to make the spanish cedar lining for me. The original metal was too corroded to use.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I bought a Porsche Design p3634 lighter for $200 dollars. Actually girlfriend now fiance bought it for me.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Beautiful lighter, Derrick!
March 9th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
I have bought a dual flame lucienne torch lighter for about 50$ and a Xikar cutter for about 65$ best two accesories I could have bought.