1910 Sweet Corporal Pack - HELP

[Crazylegs]

Is there a way to tell what kind of card is in this pack?

The pack says Factory 30, District 4, NC

Any help is greatly appreciated Crazylegs

[E93]

Scans with tax stamp would help, but I believe it is not possible to know definitively. If it is in fact from the 1910 era, it could have a bird, flag, or baseball player. Others will chime in with more and better info I am sure.
JimB

[Leon]

Is there an ink overprint on the tax stamp, with a date? That is the only way to definitively date a pack. Tax stamps themselves were made for multiple years...so one that says 1909 could be that year or several years later.....but if it has an ink stamp on the tax stamp, that dates it correctly. From there we can tell a little more about it.

[jimonym]

If the tax stamp itself says Series of 1910, it could have been used anytime between 1910 and 1916-17.

Factory 30 in the 4th District of North Carolina was not an active cigarette factory for the American Tobacco Company prior to its breakup in 1911, so my guess is yours is post-breakup, between 1912 and 1917. Maybe. Scans would help. But, as Leon says, a cancellation date stamped on the tax stamp would nail the date for sure.

[rdwyer]

Attached is a list of factory and district codes for Baseball related packs.

[ethicsprof]

many thanks for the checklist.
just printed it and will place it next to canfield's helpful tome on packs.

best,
barry