What is the Prized Possession in Your Cellar?

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The stuff above was only in my prized possession for a very short while because I decided to sell it to further fund more TAD! Although I do slightly regret letting the cutter-top slip thru my fingers, it ended up paying for itself five-fold. The BS Flake I actually did try and wasn't too taken with, but it was a decent smoke.
Now my prized possession is probably this MOB #111 Flake, it was the first aged tobacco I tried and it was what convinced me that aged tobaccos actually are very good and not just a myth. I think it's from 2008, but I'm not sure.

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Otherwise, my prized possessions are not really rare, just hard-to-get, like Stonehaven, St. Bruno, Germain's Brown Flake and Warrior Plug.
What is the crown jewel of your cellar?

 

dukdalf

Starting to Get Obsessed
Aug 24, 2011
238
0
Four tins of Caledonian #466 (the green one). All the rest pales in comparison to that...

 

cajunguy

Part of the Furniture Now
Jan 22, 2012
756
1
Metairie, LA
An unopened can of G.L. Pease Robusto stamped 111502 on the bottom, picked up at a pipe show before wide distribution. It was gifted to me for a restoration I did. It remains unopened... for now. :D

 

judcole

Lifer
Sep 14, 2011
7,471
39,088
Detroit
I have a tin of BBF I acquired in 2004. I'll probably pop that next year, unless I decide to try to make it 15 years on that tin. :puffy:

 

mikemacrdlnds

Part of the Furniture Now
Dec 21, 2011
537
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A twenty year old tin of Cyprian Star, two 16 year old tins Frog Morton, a 15 year old tin of Grey Havens.

 

zonomo

Lifer
Nov 24, 2012
1,584
5
I dont have anything old at this point so I'd have to say my 3 lbs of Hobbits Weed.

 

teufelhund

Lifer
Mar 5, 2013
1,497
3
St. Louis, MO
A bottle of Chateau Petrus Pomerol 1985; It's been stored since my birth. It's worth about $3000 now. Maybe I should sell it for more pipes... :wink:

 
Jul 15, 2011
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Added quite a few gems over the last few months that I am quite proud of:
Two tins of Dan Torkjensold Virginia Slices-I believe the date on both tins reads 1999. Gift from a very generous forum member.
One tin of Escudo dated 1997-Another gift from said forum member
One tin of Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake-Very generous gift from a DIFFERENT forum member
2 Ounces bulk Stonehaven dated 2007- Still havent ripped into it. Thank you to rmbittner on that one.
One tin of McClelland Dominican Glory dated 2003. Got that one on a lark from smokingpipes.com

 

cigrmaster

Lifer
May 26, 2012
20,248
57,309
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Sarasota Florida
2001 Three Nuns

2001 Fribourg & Treyer Cut Virginia Plug

2001 Escdudo

2001 Hamborger Veermaster x2

1997 Orlik Golden Sliced 100 gram

1997 Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky 100 gram

2002 Solani 633 6 100 gram tins

2006 SG Best Brown Flake 3 pounds

2007 Stonehaven 4 pounds

2002 Astleys no 109

 

chubbster

Starting to Get Obsessed
Mar 12, 2013
184
0
3lbs Garfinkel Ridgeway

1lb Garfinkel atlas

12 tins of Mcclelland organic grown flake

 

dukdalf

Starting to Get Obsessed
Aug 24, 2011
238
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We're cheating, here. 'The prized possession' implies a single item and on a forum like this, it should be tobacco. Seriously: I'm only whining because until two years ago I had similar bottles of wine as those mentioned above in my cellar. I had to pour all of them down the sink because of what I suspect to have been a mold or bacteria of some sort. A lasting trauma, that kluk, kluk, kluk-sound. My tobacco was and is stored elsewhere: thanks to my better half who was afraid her macaronis would soon taste like latakia :D .

 

numbersix

Lifer
Jul 27, 2012
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Damn - that is one fine cellar misterlowercase! I guess mine would be my meager collections of tins, several tins of 1972 flake, some EMP and a couple of others. Not much to brag on (yet!)

 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,838
655,141
A nice number of 2001 Three Nuns and a dozen 2001 Dunhill DNR in tins. Smoked all the original Balkan Sobranie. A few late 1990s McClelland tins, though I'm not a big McClelland fan. Five 2002 Christmas Cheer tins and a couple of 1998 FM tins, too. Two 2002 Orlik's Dark Kentucky tins, plus other tins from that time period. And money from the Brinks' job, and D.B. Cooper.

 

buster

Lifer
Sep 1, 2011
1,305
3
I have an unopened tin of Ratrays marlin flake that is five years old.
Also a bottle of Clerc Milon 2002 in the wine cellar.
Cant bring myself to open either.

 
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