Very nice! Interesting anecdote - I had someone ask if it was a key. I responded to the negative and they said well then its awfully phallic!! :)
You definitely convey the old world elegance I'm looking for but to me it seems a just a tad "old west". Think sharp with defined edges akin to your Martin Cigar design.
#51 - this is more like it! That would be great for letterhead. For the website, I wonder what it would look like with Burgundy behind Strovink and a silver background behind law.
#56 - how does it look with the red color from #71? Really like how you provided #51 & 52 as negatives of each other... really works nice in greyscale. Great take.
I'll take a look at that color variation. It appears to pretty closely match what I had done for martin cigars. I'll be sure to take out the orange though.