Whan did tubed cigars first come about?

[El Presidente]

This may have been covered before but do our FOH Columbo sleuths know when the first "tubed" cigars came into being?

[Bijan]

Don't know but google says:

https://www.havanahouse.co.uk/history-behind-tubed-cigars/

Edit: also this: https://www.cigarjournal.com/read-the-story-behind-aluminium-cigar-tubes/

That's aluminum, glass tubes were late 1800s apparently:

https://www.famous-smoke.com/cigaradvisor/why-are-cigar-tubes-used

[99call]

This has surely got to pre-date any aluminium tube production, as it appears to be lead soldered tin.  As the packaging suggests these were especially packaged for Abdulla & Co tobacconists on 173 New Bond Street, Mayfair

[mprach024]

Not googling, I’m gonna guess Columbus brought some back, he strikes me as a tube fan

[Bijan]

16 minutes ago, 99call said:

Abdulla & Co tobacconists on 173 New Bond Street, Mayfair

They moved there in 1917. So glass tubes are still older.

http://www.cigarettespedia.com/index.php/ManufacturerAbdulla_&_Co._Ltd.

[Tstew75]

Just now, mprach024 said:

Not googling, I’m gonna guess Columbus brought some back, he strikes me as a tube fan

No to be debbie downer, but he was also a huge fan of lying, slavery & genocide  😯

[99call]

9 minutes ago, Bijan said:

They moved there in 1917. So glass tubes are still older.

http://www.cigarettespedia.com/index.php/ManufacturerAbdulla_&_Co._Ltd.

I think you are correct, but I don't think that can be said categorically, as the Hoyo soldered tube is the only one I know of, there could have been others that pre-dated it. 

[Bijan]

Apparently @Ken Gargett asked this  2 years ago:

 

[99call]

4 minutes ago, Bijan said:

Apparently @Ken Gargett asked this  2 years ago:

everyone has asked everything 2 years ago......

I always enjoy the newbies asking  "hit me...............what is your desert island cigar?"

it's lucky there isn't a yawn emoji....or there would be some pretty brutal slapdowns on the forum

[Bijan]

1 minute ago, 99call said:

it's lucky there isn't a yawn emoji....or there would be some pretty brutal slapdowns on the forum

🥱

[99call]

Just now, Bijan said:

🥱

all I get is a square?  is there one? cue the punishment.......

 

[Bijan]

1 minute ago, 99call said:

all I get is a square?  is there one? cue the punishment.......

 

Yes apparently there is one.

"New in 2019. Now supported on all updated systems."

https://emojipedia.org/yawning-face/

Edit: Guess not all systems...

[Ken Gargett]

8 minutes ago, 99call said:

everyone has asked everything 2 years ago......

I always enjoy the newbies asking  "hit me...............what is your desert island cigar?"

it's lucky there isn't a yawn emoji....or there would be some pretty brutal slapdowns on the forum

i would never use it. even if rob did ask the question two years after me. 

[99call]

1 minute ago, Ken Gargett said:

i would never use it. even if rob did ask the question two years after me. 

Has something happend?   is this like when the Tommys and the Krauts stopped WW1 to play football? 

The playful venom between you too, is usually as free flowing as Guinness in Dublin

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, 99call said:

Has something happend?   is this like when the Tommys and the Krauts stopped WW1 to play football? 

The playful venom between you too, is usually as free flowing as Guinness in Dublin

not in the least. i'm just trying out a new role as the forum's bigger man. can't see it lasting.

[99call]

9 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

not in the least. i'm just trying out a new role as the forum's bigger man. can't see it lasting.

 

[Ken Gargett]

5 minutes ago, 99call said:

 

fortunately, i am too fat to fit in my priest's gear these days. don't ask. 

[mprach024]

56 minutes ago, Tstew75 said:

No to be debbie downer, but he was also a huge fan of lying, slavery & genocide  😯

But mostly tubos

[99call]

3 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

fortunately, i am too fat to fit in my priest's gear these days. don't ask. 

Strangely I feel like i've seen that image, it must have been posted on the forum at some point. 

[Ken Gargett]

Just now, 99call said:

Strangely I feel like i've seen that image, it must have been posted on the forum at some point. 

hopefully it has disappeared into the ether, never to return. 

[Ken Gargett]

more seriously, i must say that i am staggered about the figure quoted in simon chase's article, that more than 40% of cuban cigars are sold in tubes. never would have guessed that. 

[JohnS]

11 minutes ago, Ken Gargett said:

more seriously, i must say that i am staggered about the figure quoted in simon chase's article, that more than 40% of cuban cigars are sold in tubes. never would have guessed that. 

At the time that article was written it took into account the sales which LCDHs and Airport Duty-Free businesses account for. Obviously with Post-COVID-19 times this has changed. I guess we forget the amount of attention afforded to new Habanos releases and minor marcas (in terms of general sales figures) on a forum like this.

When I stepped into the LCDH at Falmouth, Jamaica in December 2018 I indeed did find the shop space dedicated to a great deal of tubos for tourists and more shelf space set aside to the global marcas also (i.e. Montecristo, Cohiba, Romeo y Julieta, H.Upmann, Partagas and Hoyo de Monterrey).

[Ginseng]

Such an interesting artifact. I have a warm spot for tubos. I have some decades old, but not centuries. 

[mprach024]

4 hours ago, Ginseng said:

Such an interesting artifact. I have a warm spot for tubos. I have some decades old, but not centuries.

That’s pretty cool

[La_Tigre]

WITAH did we just read...

WWI football, emojis, genocide, soldering, tempted priests and desert island cigars....

What, no soil conservation strategies of the 1860’s??