Just trying to get an idea of how many people like to collect cigar bands. I know they are worth little to No money but, who collects them anyway? I have about 300+ bands and just love to collect them. Also if you do collect how do you store them and showcase them?


Chris R

I save a lot of bands. I'll paste one in a diary if it was from a really good cigar or special occasion. Sometimes Cigar Family, CAO, et al. have a promotion where you send in bands for free stuff. Also I got a great cigar store indian from BandwagonUSA (affiliated with JR's) for 100 bands and $155, including shipping! It's a gorgeous indian, 40" tall and solid wood, possibly mahogany. They are selling the same exact style in JR's stores in NYC for $200 and even more elsewhere. I would definitely say some cigar bands have value.

"Un día sin los cigarros es como un día sin el sol."

"A day without cigars is like a day without sun."

That Bandwagon thing is a cool idea (business wise).

They are grabbing all kinds of market data and probably making big bucks for it.

Another idea someone got to first...


Smoke it.

nearly all band of cigar I smoked are corrected

Cigar means......

I keep my bands, have the wife paste them onto heavy and into a picture frame with a glue stick and the I hang in my cigar/poker room, the frames I get from Wally World 2 for 4 bucks, cheap and looks nice.

Jim

I try to keep the band from every new brand/size and put them into a notebook with comments on the draw flavor burn aroma construction price and any other remarks about what goes good with them.

""GO BUCKEYES!"

Very cool I have an actual book called the "cigar journal" that is made just for the Its pretty neat

Everyonce and awhile I'll remember to save a band or two. Half the time, I set them down next to me, and the wind blows them away. Drives me nuts.

I try and save the Bands of new cigars that I have tried.

I try and pick up at least one cigar that differs from my standards. And I save the band.
I saw some wall art once that was made from cigar bands. Basically, bands glued to a surface and then framed. It looked nice. I figured if I got enough I could do the same.
-Jason

Avid auto enthusiast and cigar lover

I am saving up for the montecristo humidor on bandwagon.com all since my best friend owns a cigar shop and is saving all bands for me and of couse I have some friends doing the same too, I am about 2/3 of the way there. Just a little longer and my dream humidor is MINE!!!.

Good luck saving them. I also put mine on 3 x 5 notecards by grade sequences that way I know if not to try agin or not. A good thing till u get backed up with like 20 of them damn things. Well CHEERS folks. J.P

John-Paul Hersberg

I have a collection of at least one band of every different cigar I've smoked. I also have my grandfather's cigar band collection from about 1910 or so.

If you ever are in Club Macanudo in NYC (and every cigar smoker who visits NYC should make it a "must-see" stop) they have two giant pictures that are all cigar bands glued together. I can't remember but I think they are all old Cubans. Really cool!

"Un día sin los cigarros es como un día sin el sol."

"A day without cigars is like a day without sun."

I've got a bunch of bands that I'm planning on displaying in a glass jar. I just need a rainy Saturday to complete it!

Tiny Tim
Sergeant at Arms
S.N.O.B. #1020

I always save them but have not done anything special with them. Maybe some day.

"knock, knock..."
"who's there?"
"go **** yourself"

I'm saving up for that Montecristo humidor from Bandwagon USA too. I've only got a 50 cap humidor though so It'll be a while before I can get the 200 bands I need.

I'm also keeping 1 band from every new cigar I try and I think I'm going to post them into a picture frame after I get a few more.

my girl friend collects all of my bands...she is putting them in a photo album...maybe one day she will tell what she plans on doing with them...probable hold it against me...when she wants a new pair of shoes...lol

Piss on me once ...that's your fault...Piss on me twice that's my fault....

Why? I sincerly don't know,but i also save my cigar bands. Maybe one day i'll create some beautiful work of art with them.Untill then i recommend that you keep saving them.Thier always good to look back on for all the good and bad smokes you had.

Like my smoking days, I used to collect the Marlboro Miles. I never redeemed them though. This time I save all my bands and hope to get something cool from bandwagon.

I too collect all my bands and keep in a stamp album. I have a few old Cuban bands from a trip to Havana and have plenty of the contemporary bands. If any one has swaps...