Dunhill Don Candido Seleccion Suprema No. 501's...anyone know anything about them?

[guado]

Send em to me and I will tell you all you want to know!

[DeeDubya]

Dunhill's were a favorite of Groucho Marx. Although I believe his favorites were the 510. Could be a typo on what I read. I just know they were Cuban origin which were legal here at the time.
Your cigars look a little bewildered. I would hang onto them regardless.

ggiese is the man to ask for help on Cubans.

[Shelby07]

You asked the same question on another forum and got all the information you need. Why are you acting ignorant?

[dentonparrots]

You asked the same question on another forum and got all the information you need. Why are you acting ignorant?

I'm not being ignorant...I simply don't know much about cigars other than the help from the other site, and if you've read it there's not a great deal of info, so I've been told to email Gotham Cigar Museum which I've done but thought I'd ask about to find out a bit more. You didn't HAVE to comment.

Ignorant? What a strange thing to say about asking questions, I really can't understand some people on the internet, so jumped up and ready to "pounce" on people for not knowing stuff that they already do. Aren't you the knowledgeable one!
If that's all you had to say why go out of your way to make a comment, was it to make you feel better? I hope it did.........

[guado]

i'm not being ignorant...i simply don't know much about cigars other than the help from the other site, and if you've read it there's not a great deal of info, so i've been told to email gotham cigar museum which i've done but thought i'd ask about to find out a bit more. You didn't have to comment.

Ignorant? What a strange thing to say about asking questions, i really can't understand some people on the internet, so jumped up and ready to "pounce" on people for not knowing stuff that they already do. Aren't you the knowledgeable one!
If that's all you had to say why go out of your way to make a comment, was it to make you feel better? I hope it did.........

:-x

[ashauler]

I'm not being ignorant...I simply don't know much about cigars other than the help from the other site, and if you've read it there's not a great deal of info, so I've been told to email Gotham Cigar Museum which I've done but thought I'd ask about to find out a bit more. You didn't HAVE to comment.

Ignorant? What a strange thing to say about asking questions, I really can't understand some people on the internet, so jumped up and ready to "pounce" on people for not knowing stuff that they already do. Aren't you the knowledgeable one!
If that's all you had to say why go out of your way to make a comment, was it to make you feel better? I hope it did.........

Well, ignorant was pretty nice imo.......Shelby07 is just that kind of guy. What I think you fail to understand is that this is a community, not a library or an information clearing house. The proper way to join a community is to introduce yourself, not barge in the door and ask us to do your homework for you. You can obviously use a computer.....try google.

If you want to learn about cigars and partake of the benefits of brotherhood and membership in our community, I would suggest that you post an introduction, stick around, use the search and read to figure out how this community works.

Any responses you make in this thread from here will determine your future here. The choice is completely yours.........Oh, and the overall internet cigar community is really rather small....most belong to multiple boards and very little that is posted escapes us.

[Shelby07]

Aside from what you've already learned

- They are considered to be one of, if not the best Havana ever produced.
- Were made by Dunhill from the 30's to the 80's
- It is believed that examples after the 70's will be much more flavorful in the future
- Being a new cigar smoker you probably should hold on to them for a few years until you develop a palate.
- They are worth about $150-$200 each at auction
- There isn't much about them on the internet
- You are waiting to hear from Gotham Cigar Museum for further information

what else would you like to know?

I guess to be honest it just seemed a bit odd that you would gain quite a bit of information from some very knowledgeable folks, put in a request to get a definitive answer from Gotham, then come onto another cigar board with no hello, nothing about yourself, and ask the exact same question.

This is really more of a community of friends than a library of rare Cuban cigars, so to have someone jump on and announce that he has 2 of the rarest and probably most desirable cigars in the world with no other introduction is a bit odd here, and hit me as a little pretentious. In most communities someone coming on with a first post such as yours raises a few red flags. Being new to boards, you might not realize that, so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.

So, take a few minutes to tell us about yourself, your interests, your favorite cigars then sit back and join in a little. I know from the other forum that you are an inexperienced smoker, and this is a great place to learn and talk about cigars other than those that most of us will never see.

So... let's start again.

Welcome. Tell us a bit about yourself, what kind of cigars you enjoy and how you came to acquire these cigars. They are quite a treasure.

[Shelby07]

By the way... your screen name suggest that you may be interested in exotic birds and such. True? I don't know much about them, but I think there are a couple of folks here who have an interest.

[dentonparrots]

Fair Dinkum, it can be easy to mis-read emotion with text so I'll start again...and apologies if I have stormed into a community-type chat room without introducing myself. I appreciate I was a tad blunt (probably caused through emotion stunting alchohol when typing it out!)

My name's Carl, I'm 31 we've got 3 kids and I live in Cumbria (UK). For a living I hand feed baby parrot chicks that we've bred, which doesn't really leave me with much time for any interests really as the chicks needs fed every few hours. I do play a bit of online poker however and we have quite a lot of our friends come round to drink and chat too so we've generally got guests most days to keep us entertained. It does make us look like a small pub/ achoholics on bin day with all the cans/ bottles to be recycled.

The cigars were gave to me by a good friend who's smoked cigars for quite a while, a lady he knows gave a collection from her late husband to him as she knew he appriciated them and is into wines etc too. He's a generous chap and initially gave me 2 which I passed onto my father as a birthday gift (he's one of these guys that has everything, and if he wanted something "normal" he'd simply buy it himself) and after that my friend gave me another 4 telling me we'd smoke them on a special occasion. He'd mentioned that he thought they were pretty rare and up to 45yrs old so I looked into them on Google etc and couldn't find any information about them and posted a thread on another cigar forum.
My friend has quite a lot more of them and also the outer main box/ coffin with the stamp thing on them too, he also has some pretty old other cigars and Davidoffs (I thought they just made aftershave) too alongside others that I simply can't remember the names of.

I got some quite valuable info from the other site, considering I know nothing about cigars but still I'd like to find out if there's anything else to know about them like a more accurate date ideally and why they are so rare. To be entirely honest I'd never sell them as it would be a bit cheeky to my friend and due to the rarity and price I'd probably never smoke them either!
That said it got me really intrigued about cigars and thought I'd buy a couple and have a pop because now I've been stopped smoking cigarettes a couple of years and might be able to distinguish flavours better...so I bought a couple from a local tobacconist yesterday and smoked/ tasted them with a couple of my friends last night and I reckoln I'm going to get sucked into this in a reasonably big way, very enjoyable social experience but I reckon my pallets got some way to go just yet.

With such a new pallet other than a "cigar" taste I got a slight pineapple taste on the first one that I tried which was an H. UPMAN and from a Dunhill Petit Carona I got a leathery, walnut/ woody taste! I might be talking absolute sh*t though!!

Anyhoo....sorry again if I've initally just stormed into your site and rocket the apple-cart and hello