What is the Prized Possession in Your Cellar?

[misterlowercase]

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.

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]

Four tins of Caledonian #466 (the green one). All the rest pales in comparison to that...

 

[romeowood]

Late 50s / early 60s Escudo. And yeah, it's worth the wait. Tons of old GLP Virginia blends too, which are great at any age.

 

[uberam3rica]

I have two unopened tins of Balkan Sasieni that are two years old.

 

[cajunguy]

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

 

[yadan]

What is the Prized Possession in Your Cellar?
My Significant Other... :nana:

 

[kcghost]

I have a very nice tin of Cope's Escudo waiting.

 

[judcole]

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. ::

 

[mikemacrdlnds]

A twenty year old tin of Cyprian Star, two 16 year old tins Frog Morton, a 15 year old tin of Grey Havens.

 

[zonomo]

I dont have anything old at this point so I'd have to say my 3 lbs of Hobbits Weed.

 

[teufelhund]

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:

 

[matchstickman]

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]

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]

3lbs Garfinkel Ridgeway

1lb Garfinkel atlas

12 tins of Mcclelland organic grown flake

 

[dukdalf]

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]

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]

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.

 

[crpntr1]

'08 FVF & '07 Butera Dark Stoved

 

[buster]

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.

 

[foggymountain]

The wife. (Just joking, feminists!)