Beware of this auction

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Posted By: scott hassel

I don't post often but this is blatant " Bull **** ". This pack
is 1960's. You think they had light cigarettes in 1910?? What a joke. Beware!!!!!!!!!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230054873098

I sent this seller a heads up but I guess they/he/she thought they'd
grab a sucker. If you bought this pack you'd actually be able to smoke em....

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Posted By: leon

Thanks Scott....when are these from, around the 1960's-70's? If you collect packs at all you would know this is a newer one. The guy probably doesn't know as he does have perfect feedback.....

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Posted By: J Levine

I don't doubt Scott on this but the cigarettes do not say "light" they say mild which was one of the slogans that Coupon cigarettes used on their cards. Mild tobacco was used on several different brands around the turn of the century if I recall. I can not make out the tax stamp and the pack certainly looks like it is later than 1915. I also seem to recall that Coupon cigarettes were not produced after the 1920s.

Where are our other pack collectors.

Joshua

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Posted By: Jon Canfield

Joshua,

I think you may be right about Coupon's not being produced past 1928 (or around there), but this pack is defenately from the 1950's or 1960's. The dead give-a-way is the cellophane wrapping, which I don't believe was used until the 1940's or thereabouts. A lot of the defunct brands were actually produced in the 1950's and beyond, almost as pseudo-collector's items. As some may recall, Red Sun was produced, using the original graphics, in the 1970's.

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Posted By: scott hassel

Well , Well.

I see the seller ended the auction early. Not sure if was my email or if someone else on this board contacted them but all's well that ends well.
Happy Holiday to all.
Scott