Re: Are figurados more enjoyable?

On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:50:06 +0100, Ed Fnord wrote:

"Alex W." <ingilt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Historically speaking, cigars used to
be almost exclusively figurados. Almost all the old cigar moulds
and cases I have seen were specifically designed for small
perfectos. This begs the question whether it really is harder to
roll figurados rather than perfectly straight parejos, or whether
we are simply taught to pay a premium for an unusual shape.

Hang on, someone was saying here recently that antique
humidors are mostly petit-corona-sized. I thought that meant
people in the old days mostly smoked petit coronas, but does
it mean really they were smoking figurados about that size?

Well, well. The wikipedia article says perfectos are about
the same size as petit coronas!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_name

If you look at dry-cured Dutch cigars, they are pretty much
what you'd expect to see in any smokeshop 100 years ago: not
terribly pretty, though.

As for humidors, they are still counted in petit coronas.
Short of filling it with the ashes of your smokes, the only
way of coming anywhere near the claimed capacity of a modern
humidor is to use petit coronas.
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