If you are heading down to the Dominican Republic next week for the annual ProCigar Festival, bringing your checkbook could land you a chance at being one of the first to try new cigars, or even taking home a humidor of one-off cigars. ProCigar, the name of the Dominican cigar manufacturers association, has announced 10 items for the auction, which will take place at the Festival’s gala dinner on Feb. 21. Process will benefit Voluntariado de Jesús con los Niños and the Hospicio San Vicente de Paúl. The former is a non-profit dedicated to helping ill children and the latter helping impoverished elders. Lot 1 — ProCigar Festival 2015 Special Edition Box Collage (Starting Bid, $750) Fernando Romero and Mike Baca, collectively known as UR New York, were tapped to design the boxes handed to each ProCigar attendee. In addition, they designed a four-box collage, with each box containing 11 cigars. Cigar smokers might be familiar with UR New York for their work on the Zino Platinum LE 2013 “The Make of New York.” Lot 2 — Tabacalera Palma 79th Anniversary Tribute Humidor (Starting Bid, $800) As we reported earlier this week, Tabacalera Palma—best known in the U.S. as the factory that ...
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