Blind Mississippi Morris Benefit Auction

Blind Mississippi Morris, a living legend and one of the blues artists featured by Avalon Cigars, is in a tight spot. His house was recently condemned (story here) and he has about 30 days to make the necessary repairs or vacate the property. A fund has been established to raise money and awareness of the issue and a fundraising blues jam was held last night (6/20/2007). The jam was successful, but more is needed.

Avalon Cigars has put together a very special commemorative box of Masters Series, Blind Mississippi Morris cigars. The box consists of 20 Blind Mississippi Morris 6x44 Maduro cigars in a special (only two were made) humidor, signed by Avalon Founders Gary Hilton and Tom Ramsey and by Morris himself.

We have decided to offer up the box in a “Forum Pride” auction that Ed from Tarheel Cigars has agreed to host. We are posting this message on several different forums to see who can dig the deepest and bid the most for this item. To show that your favorite forum is the best, post your handle and forum along with your bid. Whichever forum is represented by the winning bidder will get a special treat…Another Avalon box pass for 25 members.

We are giving 100% of the proceeds to help rebuild Morris’ home.

To see the box and enter your bid, follow this link and post your name, forum and bid amount. Ed has set up this thread so that you don’t have to register to post your bid.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

First bid. :smiley1:

It's all that I can afford right now :smiley19:, but at least it will get the auction rolling.

Can you please post up a few pics of the humidor?

Here's a picture of the item.

http://i15.tinypic.com/4t7jkia.jpg

and another

http://i18.tinypic.com/6bnedr4.jpg

Well, I'm the only bidder from CigarSmokers so far...

Is there anything unique or custom about this humi other than a sticker slapped on the front?

I just bid. Looks like a nice humidor for a very good cause.

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Originally Posted by JFellows

Well, I'm the only bidder from CigarSmokers so far...

Is there anything unique or custom about this humi other than a sticker slapped on the front?

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Unique things:

1. all of the proceeds go to help a blind bluesman fix his 100 year old house
2. it is signed by said blind bluesman and the principals of avalon
3. that sticker was specifically desigend for this (and one other humidor)
4. did i mention that we are not making a penny of this money and that all of it goes to help re-bulid morris' house

:smiley20:

I came across some samples from 2 of Blind Mississippi Morris’ albums

You know I like that
Bad to worse


He has some really good stuff if you are into blues music.

hex1848 from Cigarsmokers.com

Congrats to hex and to cigarsmokers.com

As promised, Hex will recieve the auction item, plus some extras! Cigarsmokers.com will get a 25 stick Avalon Box pass. This will be a "take an Avalon - give a stick for the troops" pass. I will donate 25 Avalon sticks and everyone participating in the pass will remove one Avalon and replace it with a stick that will be given to our boys overseas when the pass is complete.

I'll leave it up to hex to come up with a list of participants and a host.

Thanks for your participation in the auction.

Tom

Congrats Hex on the very nice Humidor. Nice gesture by Avalon to auction this off.

Nice job Hex:smiley20: