Cigar Band Collectors?

[Nacho Daddy]

I have a collection I have been working on for 50 years or more.
Back in the day, I spent my allowance on cigars for my dad so I could have the bands, and I was always searching the sidewalks, gutters ,and ashtrays for them.
Probably not many 14 year old boys buying cigars back then, but no one really got upset about it.
Once, at a drugstore, I saw a big box of old, dried out cigars, and paid a nickle each for the ones I wanted, so I could get those bands!
Fast forward to today, and I still save bands.
here are a couple of pics of some of them.....

 

[Nacho Daddy]

see anything you recognize ??

 

[ritter6788]

I’m working on this to be completely full and framed. Might have to go band hunting elsewhere since I’m not smoking many NCs anymore. So far I’ve smoked every cigar on the board.

 

[SurfnSafari]

Jack Nickelson all from bands.

 

[icehog3]

Jack Nickelson all from bands.

I thought it was a lion until I saw the above.

 

[egledhill]

View attachment 110248 Jack Nickelson all from bands.

that some talent my dude

 

[SurfnSafari]

I thought it was a lion until I saw the above.

HINT move 3 -4 feet back from computer, it will be easier to view, up close the beauty is you can see each band, and how it was placed in the creation.

 

[Burnaz16]

HINT move 3 -4 feet back from computer, it will be easier to view, up close the beauty is you can see each band, and how it was placed in the creation.

How did you get the layout for this? Did you blow up the actual picture and just lay over, or was this "freehand"? This is awesome @SurfnSafari! Great job!

 

[Burnaz16]

Found this book online for sale and just cropped it to use. Haven't started the process yet but figured I'd share for anyone who wanted to use something similar.

 

[StogieNinja]

How did you get the layout for this? Did you blow up the actual picture and just lay over, or was this "freehand"? This is awesome @SurfnSafari! Great job!

The Jack Nickleson is by an artist named Kim Jackson. She has some seriously cool cigar band art:

http://kjackart.com/gallery/

 

[mjones9630]

http://kjackart.com/gallery/

Ugh... That just reminds me how UN artistic I am!

 

[icehog3]

HINT move 3 -4 feet back from computer, it will be easier to view, up close the beauty is you can see each band, and how it was placed in the creation.

Oh, I could see it as soon as I knew what I was looking for. Very cool.

 

[Glassman]

see anything you recognize ??

No Tom, I don't see anything I recognize. Those are some really unusual seeming bands there. Pretty cool!

I guess a couple of those companies were constantly changing the band art for particular cigars?

 

[memphsdad]

@Nacho Daddy you can buy a ton of old bands like that on Etsy

 

[Unpossible_1]

I've been saving bands for years now, but still haven't actually done anything yet. I figure the day after I finally toss them all is the day I figure out what I want to do with them.

 

[joe45]

View attachment 110248 Jack Nickelson all from bands.

Now that is cool.

 

[teamrandr]

see anything you recognize ??

These are all German? I recognize the Willem name. You can still find boxes full of those on Ebay.

 

[SurfnSafari]

Some of my bands the one I save for myself, are stored in a handmade wood box on my dresser. It was picked up when he was a Merchant Marine prior WW-II in the Dominican Repulbic.

 

[Nacho Daddy]

Willem is a Dutch company, most of these are European bands, some as old as the 70s.
Some are Canary Islands, etc.
The idea was to make a series of bands to encourage collectors to keep buying until they got the whole set,and then they would re run the same pics with a different color of border.
Willem got creative, making their sets huge, some were birds, flowers, butterflies, mushrooms, national flags, etc.
each set had 225 bands, and each box of 10 cigars had ONE band in it.
This is a complete set of coats of arms of countries, all different.

 

[sean]

Willem is a Dutch company, most of these are European bands, some as old as the 70s.
Some are Canary Islands, etc.
The idea was to make a series of bands to encourage collectors to keep buying until they got the whole set,and then they would re run the same pics with a different color of border.
Willem got creative, making their sets huge, some were birds, flowers, butterflies, mushrooms, national flags, etc.
each set had 225 bands, and each box of 10 cigars had ONE band in it.
This is a complete set of coats of arms of countries, all different.
View attachment 110304

This is very cool. My dad collects stamps, and is part of the Philatelic Society. Is there a similar organization for cigar band collectors? I found Ephemera Society, but they seem to have a broader scope than cigar bands, seals, and labels.

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