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| Product type | Cigar |
|---|---|
| Owner | Imperial Brands |
| Produced by | ITG Brands |
| Introduced | 1912 |
| Markets | United States |
| Website | dutchmasters.com |
| Carcinogenicity: IARC group 1 | |
Dutch Masters is an American brand of natural wrapped cigars that has been sold since 1912. Its distinctive packaging features Rembrandt's 1662 painting Syndics of the Drapers' Guild. Dutch Masters cigars are currently manufactured and sold by Imperial Brands. They are machine-rolled cigars and come in two varieties: standard cigars and smaller cigarillos.[1][2] Dutch Masters are a common choice for cannabis smokers who like to roll blunts.
G.H. Johnson Cigar Company was the original producer of the Dutch Masters cigar brand. The brand became a mainstay of the Consolidated Cigar Corporation, which merged the G.H. Johnson Cigar Company and six others in 1921. The Consolidated Cigar Corp. later became part of Altadis, formed in 1999 by a merger of the French and Spanish state tobacco monopolies.[3]
Dutch Masters became well-known in the late 1950s and early 1960s for its sponsorship of comedian Ernie Kovacs. (Kovacs, a well known cigar smoker, never smoked Dutch Masters off camera, sticking almost exclusively to Havana cigars.)[4]
In 2015, Dutch Masters sponsored wrap parties hosted by Cipha Sounds and Drewski, The MVMT.
- ^ Only available in the US "Altadis Buys Control of JR Cigars" by David Savona, October 10, 2003 Archived April 10, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Merger To Create World's Largest Cigar Company" by David Savona, October 6, 1999[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Altadis S.A.," FundingUniverse.com/ Retrieved February 19, 2011.
- ^ "Dutch Masters". Tobacco Stock. Retrieved 2022-04-07.