No Help Needed in Selling Beatles Cigars

Source from:  Tobacco Reporter 06/25/2012

Mitchell Orchant, the London-based founder and managing director of C.Gars Ltd, recently sold a shadow box containing 25 rare Beatles cigars for ￡600 and, in doing so, lit up the group's global fan-base. "I recently picked up this exceptional framed presentation box from an antiques collector and there was immediate and huge interest from The Beatles' fans around the world," said Orchant. "The cigars were presented to Charles Berman for his work on The Beatles' second movie, HELP!, which premiered in London on July 29, 1965." Berman, senior vice president of United Artists Europe, and marketing chief of Bond and Beatles films was one of only six people to be given 25 Cedros cigars. "The cigars were presented to Mr Berman at the movie's wrap party held at the BOAC VIP dinner, attended by the film's cast and crew," said Orchant. "This is believed to be the last surviving presentation cabinet of those cigars. "Single Beatles cigar examples are also known to have survived, but they're as rare as hen's teeth." Enditem