Just as the end of 2014 was on the horizon, Crowned Heads and Cigar Federation announced the release of a limited edition called The Buckingham, the fifth and final limited edition release for the year from the brand and a cigar that would be released for the online cigar community via its retail partner, Delaware Cigars. Originally referred to as Texicali and intended to be made for Cigar Chat, the weekly radio show hosted by Logan Lawler and Rob Rasmussen, the cigar evolved into The Buckingham after Lawler purchased Cigar Federation from Kyle Hoover and Chris Kelly of Ezra Zion Cigars in July 2014. As such, he wanted a cigar that represented “a changing of the guard” and The Buckingham was born, drawing its name from the London residence and workplace of the monarch of the United Kingdom with its well-known guards. The cigar came to a bit more prominence via Jon Huber of Crowned Heads, who in a November 2014 Tweet called it “A lil small-batch-somethin for some friends of #CrownedHeads,” with the cigar bearing a band that said Proyecto 5, Spanish for Project 5, a reference to the limited editions the company had coming out that year. The other four were ...
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