ALEJANDRO ROBAINA - BUSINESS CARD SIGNED - HFSID 209727
Sale Price $135.00
Reg. $160.00
ALEJANDRO ROBAINA
Grower renowned worldwide for his Cuban tobacco.
Business Card signed: "Alejandro Robaina", 3½x2. Printed in green letters in Spanish: "Alejandro Robaina
Pereda/Productor de Tabaco Tapado/Finca El Pinar, Barbacoa, San Luis, Pinar del
Rio Cuba."
Cuban cigar grower Robaina (1919-2010) was Cuba's most
revered tobacco grower; his leaves wrapped some of the best cigars in the world.
Robaina reportedly smoked his first cigar at the tender age of nine and
started working on his family's 40-acre tobacco plantation, which has been in
continuous operation since 1845. He had a role in the privatization of Cuban
tobacco farms after the 1959 revolution, when Fidel Castro nationalized many
large farms. Robaina was allowed to keep his farm, as long as he produced
for the state, and his yields were consistently higher than state farms.
Nowadays, almost all of the nation's farms are private, and they pattern
their business after Robaina's farm. Cuba honored him in the 1990s with an
award personally presented by Castro and, in 1997, the state tobacco monopoly
Habanos SA introduced the Vegas Robaina, making him the first living person to
have a cigar named after him. Fine
condition.
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