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The Quintero cigar brand was created as Quintero y Hermanos or Quintero and Brothers, when Agustín Quintero and his four brothers opened a small cigar factory in the town of Cienfuegos, Cuba in 1924 and began producing a handmade cigar. Quintero is popular in Cuba and in Spain. By the 1940s, Quintero y Hermanos had opened a larger rolling ...
This is an alphabetical list of cigar brands. Included is information about the company owning the brand name as well as a column allowing easy viewing of the source of that information. Included is information about the company owning the brand name as well as a column allowing easy viewing of the source of that information.
There is a companion edition, the Perelman's Pocket Cyclopedia of Havana Cigars which is similar, but includes information solely on the Cuban cigar brands. It is currently in its third edition (published 2005), but is not published every year (the 2nd edition was in 1998), and also includes information about how cigars are made in Cuba, a history of tobacco and Cuban brands, and details on ...
St. Louis, Missouri, 1925 (on corner) On April 19, 1917, the cowcatcher of the Flatiron Building United Cigar Store was transformed into a mock fort for the "Wake up America Day" parade. United Cigar Stores was a chain of cigar stores in the United States that in its first quarter-century grew to nearly 3,000 shops.
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Cigars are often given out and smoked to celebrate special occasions, such as the birth of a baby, [85] but also graduations, promotions, and other totems of success. The expression "close but no cigar" comes from the practice of giving away cigars as prizes in fairground games which require the player to hit a target (e.g., a bullseye).
Each cigar has a factory name and a model name. The model names are up to the individual manufacturer, some simply use the factory name, but as you see in the example below, some choose a different name, and may have one or more cigars of the same size, but may all have different names.
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