Is there any hope for these?

[bluenoser]

Let us know how you "revive" them and how they turn out

[Herf N Turf]

If he admittedly doesn't have the patience for it, I'LL take them!!

Other than chucking the box in my cabinet humidor at 65%, how does one go about raising RH 1-2% per week, anyway?

Place them in a tupperware with the lowest value Boveda, or other two-way media you can get. Check it every 48 hrs. After a week, place the cigars back in the zipper bag with the hygrometer to check your progress. Repeat weekly.

[bobajob]

Or you could sell them to some hapless fool and use the proceeds to buy so fresh ones...

But that wouldn't be too sporting...

[Alligator Gar]

I can try to restore one or two for science. There is a time consuming but effective process. Won't know if they have lost their pop until after they are restored.

[Pugsley]

Finally made it to the post office and these are now on the way. Tracking # 9505 5105 1511 5085 0184 07

[Billb1960]

Or you could sell them to some hapless fool and use the proceeds to buy so fresh ones...

But that wouldn't be too sporting...

[Rocket Scientologist]

I'll keep everyone updated on the progress.

[Rocket Scientologist]

@Pugsley I got the cigars today and they actually look pretty good considering. They're in a tupperdor at the moment getting a humidity baseline.20150328_212654.jpg20150328_213024.jpg

[Rocket Scientologist]

So when the RH was reading ~50% I decided that was low enough and put 2 of the small 8g 62%RH Boveda packs in there. Not brand new, they were already open - that's why I put both in there. It's currently reading ~56%RH. I fully expect those Boveda packs to be used up relatively quick.

[yourchoice]

I have successfully revived cigars that I neglected when I took a long break from the hobby (sat in a closet for about 6-8 years). I figured the worst case scenario was I would rehydrate cigars that turned out to have no flavor, but I was happily rewarded with some good smokes. It was a mixed bag of about 15 cigars, three or four of which were CC. I brought the humidity up slowly, and once I got it around 58% stuck them in the back of my end table humidor (kept between 62-65%) and successfully forgot about them for a year or more.

At a herf with @havanajohn and others, I had a RyJ Churchill that I purchased on my honeymoon ('98). Man, that cigar was actually really good...surprisingly so considering the years of neglect it went through. I remember others being okay to good, but my time and effort (which it didn't take a lot of either) was worth it, even if it was just for that one cigar (which it wasn't).

Good luck, and patience is a virtue! And in this case, so is a bad memory...forgetting them was the hardest part.