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Cuba: Tobacco Museum Show Highlights Collectibles

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Tobacco Museum: Cigar Rings and Playing Cards

Havana Exhibition Highlights Collectibles

by Teresa de Jesús Torres Espinosa

Havana, Aug 25 (Prensa Latina) Cigar rings, postcards and playing cards mix
in an exhibition at the Tobacco Museum called Coleccionando (Collecting),
where everything surrounds tobacco as the symbol of the Cuban national
identity.

A close look at the sample, open to the public during the months of August
and September on one of the galleries of the Museum of Tobacco, reveals
different compositions from Danís Mederos Rivero, who establishes a kind of
game with tobacco rings and creates wonderful pictures with images, which
could as well adorn an office, the living room or the dormitory of a child.

Advertisements from cigars and postcards from Brazil, from the beginning of
the 20th Century, French match cases, Chilean playing cards, ashtrays and
wooden as well as cardboard boxes from different brands of Havana cigars,
such as Guantanamera, Cohíba, Partagás, Montecristi and Romeo y Julieta,
are also integrated to the project that engages the collector Roberto
Arango Soler.

>From his personal collection, which comprises about 40 thousand tobacco
rings from Cuba and 10 thousand from other countries, Arango Soler, who is
also a cultural promoter, selected those which were related with playing
cards with motives regarding the leave (the period from 1880-1953), from
Mexico, the United States and Cuba.

Bachelor Zoe Nocedo, director of the Museum located in the old colonial
mansion of Mercaderes number 120, in Old Havana, made good use of the
opening of the exhibition to announce numerous activities to be held in the
Museum of Tobacco during September, among them the vitofilia workshop and
the space Talking With, which will include Roberto Zurbano, director of the
Casa de las Américas editorial fund as a guest.

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