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Originally Posted by rman444
Jon - interesting. I have never seen a Pirate soft pack, but many slide and shells. What leads you to believe that the Pirate backed cards were not issued in the slide and shells and these are not circa early 1910's? The number of Chinese beauties/warriors Pirate backed cards leads me to believe that they were issued in the slide and shells.
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A few different reasons... When Hagar made a find of Pirates in the late 1990s (some may recall his auction of them in SCD), the cards came with originals opened packs, all of which were soft packs. Also, more recently, Leon came across an unopened Pirate soft pack which had a card inside. Leon can hopefully fill in more details here. Lastly, I've conversed with the British Cigarette Pack Collectors Club. One of its board members filled me in on the history and the timeline for Pirate slide and shells. Pirate utilized slide and shell starting in the 1920s and into the 1950s.