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Description<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Durres Special<\/em> \u2013 one of the few socialist Albania<\/strong> cigarette brands named after Durres<\/strong> port city, the country's most important trading and tobacco processing center.
The package is dominated by a minimalist yet symbolic aesthetic:
logo in the central part DS<\/em> (Durres Special) added anchor symbol<\/strong>, which is directly linked to the city's maritime heritage.<\/p>\n

The design is clean, with dark blue top band<\/strong>, red line and subtle yellowish tones.
Text below \u201cCigare Me Filter\u201d<\/em> shows that this is filtered cigarettes<\/strong>, which was a sign of luxury in Albania at that time.
Visible on the top film blue excise stamp with Latin inscriptions<\/strong>, typical of the late socialist period, when Albania was still isolated but began to use a unified state tax marking.<\/p>\n

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Value assessment<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Collectible value:<\/strong> High.<\/em>
Albanian tobacco industry products from the 1980s-1990s are one of the rarest on the Eastern European collector's market<\/strong>, because due to the country's isolation, they were almost never exported.
Durres Special<\/em> packets are considered one of the main symbols of Albanian collectible tobacco, along with Partisan<\/em> and Kor\u00e7a<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Condition assessment:<\/strong> Good\u2013very good.<\/em>
There are minor storage stains, but the packaging remains original, the cellophane is intact, and the graphics are bright.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brand and name:<\/strong> Durres Special (DS)<\/em>
Manufacturer:<\/strong> Durr\u00ebs Cigarette Factory<\/em>
Country of origin:<\/strong> Albania<\/em>
Production period:<\/strong> around 1980\u20131990.<\/em>
Package type:<\/strong> soft pack<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":23468,"template":"","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[234],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23521","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-albania","7":"desktop-align-left","8":"tablet-align-left","9":"mobile-align-left","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"sale","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple","17":"add-to-wishlist-before_image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/23521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/23521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23522,"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/23521\/revisions\/23522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=23521"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=23521"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colligatum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=23521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}