Famous explorers on cigar bands
Washington
Washington issued a cigar band set with
famous explorers. The set exists in normal size and large size. The normal
sized set has 20 different bands. The bigger set has 10 different bands. Each set exists with four different wing colors: Blue, green, purple and red. The set with the red wings is picture here. The explorers
on the bands are: Marco Polo with his famous trip through Asia, Edmund Hillary
for his climbing of the mound Everest in 1953, Fridtjof Nansen for his
expedition to the North Pole 1888, David Livingstone with his expedition
through South Africa, Speke and Burton with their expedition to discover the
origin of the Nile in 1872, Rene Caille with his expedition through Africa in
1828,Lewis and Clark for their exploring of new frontiers in the Wild West,
Alexander von Humboldt with his expedition of the Orinoco and the Andes,
Francois Galaup for his expedition in 1788 to the north pacific
James Cook for his mapping of the
ocean, Abel Tasman for his discovery of Tasmania and New Zeeland, John Franklin,
William Parry, John Ross Exploring of the west coast of Greenland, Francisco
Pizarro for the exploration of the Pacific coast of South America, Hernan
Cortez for his exploratory trip through Mexico, Vasco Nunes de Balbao for his
trip to South America, Fernao de Magelhaes for the first sea trip around the
world, Columbus for the discovery of America, Vasco Da Gama for his trip from
Portugal to India. If we have the set in stock you can find it here:
http://www.urbitrend-collectables.com/products/20-different-cigar-bands-washington-famous-explorers-red-wings
Don Diaz
The famous explorer set from Don Diaz exists in three different sizes: small, normale and large size. There are 12 different images with famous explorers in a set and each set of 12 exisqts with two different wing colors: red and blue.
The famous explorers on the wings are: John Speke, O van Noort, Robert falcon Scott, Willem Barendsz, Vasco da Gama, Marco Polo, Sebastian Cabot, Fernao de Magalhaes, Jacob van Heemskerk, Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe, Martin Frobischer, Christobal Colon. If available you can find the normals sized set here: For blue
http://www.urbitrend-collectables.com/products/12-cigar-bands-d-diaz-explorateurs-fn-blue and red
http://www.urbitrend-collectables.com/products/copy-of-12-cigar-bands-don-diaz-explorateurs-fn-blue
We will describe the other sets later.