Cigar box
A cigar box is a box made of light wood. It serves on the one hand as sales packaging and on the other hand as a juggling device, also referred to here with the English term cigar box .
Retail packaging
definition
The sales packaging cigar box is a wooden box with a lid, which is used for the safe storage of cigars during transport and sale.
In contrast, the humidor is a container for the professional storage of cigars.
A so-called escogedor ( color sorter ) ensures that the cigars are sorted into the cigar box in different color gradations (for Havanas, for example, this is up to 65 different shades of color).
Some manufacturers of expensive cigars burn in the bottom of the crates stamp , which the authenticity intended to prove the cigars. However, the boxes, including stamps or the like, are imitated by counterfeiters in order to upgrade inferior cigars with the (fake) cigar box.
Ornaments of a cigar box
- Cubierta (Spanish for lid, cover) is the name for the decoration of a cigar box, which is located in the middle of the lid of the box on the outside.
- Vista (Spanish for view) is the name given to the decoration of a cigar box, which is located in the middle of the lid of the box on the inside.
- As Filetes refers to those lithographically ornate paper strips, which are attached to the outer edges of cigar boxes and are also responsible besides ornamental tasks to seal the box.
- The bofetón is that ornate sheet connected to the bottom paper of the cigar box, which lies on the cigars like the front sheet of a book and has to be opened forwards before removing a cigar.
- The tapaclavo (which literally translates as a nail cover) is an ornament that is attached to the closure of a cigar box, which serves not only to decorate but also to seal the cigar box.
Juggling device
The juggling device cigar box or English cigar box is a closed wooden box.
The juggler uses three or more boxes of cigars to perform various tricks. For example, he can manipulate the middle box with two boxes held on the outside, perform various tricks by letting go and gripping the boxes, or balance different box formations .
As Finnigan writes, wooden box juggling came to Europe via China through Japanese jugglers.
literature
- Dave Finnigan: All about the art of juggling . Page 511. DuMont, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-7701-2214-3
- Dieter H. Wirtz: The Myth of Havana . Page 21. KOMET Verlag GmbH, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-89836-746-2
