Stinky Cigar Herf Floor Edition Ashtray
Fire up the grill and break out the cigars. It’s the season for backyard barbecues, pool parties and smoking outside with friends. If you plan on hosting an alfresco cigar gathering this summer, you’ll need a heavy-duty ashtray that can withstand the elements and accommodate the multitude of ashes and cigar ends of your guests. Stinky Cigar offers a compelling solution with its Herf Floor Edition Ashtray.
Measuring 35 inches long, the jumbo-sized ashtray stands taller than the seat of your average bar stool and looks like an antique ship wheel with its 18-inch diameter and eight protruding rests, called cigar stirrups. Designed for both indoor and outdoor cigar parties, the Herf Floor Edition’s deep, six-inch bowl is particularly resistant to strong winds, preventing sudden gusts from making a mess of your backyard with spent cigar tobacco. The sturdy, nearly 10-pound ashtray is made of stainless steel with a polished finish and was purpose-built for a “herf,” a colloquial term for a gathering of cigar smokers. Lexicographers can’t agree on the origin, but it seems to have arisen on a message board by someone with the handle “Prince of Skeeves” or is somehow related to the band leader Herb Alpert.
Produced and distributed by Quality Importers Trading Co., the Stinky Cigar Herf Floor Edition Ashtray has a suggested price of $369.99. The company also offers a relatively svelte version called the Stinky Cigar Floor Ashtray. It stands 24 inches tall with an eight-inch diameter and comes with four oval-shaped cigar stirrups. It has a three-inch-deep cigar bowl that provides substantial wind resistance. The standing ashtray also benefits from a 12-inch diameter accessory tray attached to its midsection and a slender carrying handle that hangs like a scorpion tail above the top of the ashtray. The Floor Ashtray weighs about six pounds and comes in three versions: Brown and Black, made of iron with a powder-coated finish, and Stainless Steel, made of its namesake metal with a polished finish. All three versions have the same suggested price of $185.99 each and share one built-in feature: you won’t have to empty them very often.
