These exhibits are designed to help amateurs and other inexperienced or uninformed buyers and sellers to identify commonly misidentified items that are often offered for sale on ebay and elsewhere.

   It’s easy to make mistakes. Life is filled with hundreds of millions of items and no one can be an expert in everything. Not knowing something is certainly excusable. Sadly, a lot of people, including a good many antique dealers, find it difficult to simply say “I don’t know.”

   Sadly, in good faith, they rely on hearsay, rumor, or half-truths told them by people who really don’t know either. Or, in a hurry, they quickly examine an item and write a hurried description on ebay, trusting buyers to know what they’re buying.

   That’s understandable and legal. There’s only so much time that can be justified to spend on an item that will only sell for a few bucks. This exhibit, with one exception, points no blame for mistakes and omissions.

   My only goal is to provide a single place where a a few items, believed by sellers to be authentically cigar related, can be researched and correctly identified thus avoiding problems before or after a sale.

  Have more questions about one of these items?   Write <tony@cigarhistory.info>.