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The "BABE RUTH'S WINNING CIGARETTE" font does not look vintage to me at all.
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Agree with everyone above. My guess would be 1970s.
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I think David makes a great point. While Ruth is in retrospect considered a great home run hitter, he wasn't yet in 1918. That pack had to be created later than the date on the stamp.
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I'll leave it to the pack experts to decide this, and I'm not beginning to hint that the pack is real or period--I have no clue. Still, I would point out that Babe Ruth tied for the MLB lead in HRs in 1918; moreover, in 1919 he had more than twice as many HRs than anyone else in the AL and more than three times as anyone in the NL. If you were to feature a HR hitter in that time frame, who else would you have selected? And why, if your intent was to create a convincing fake, would you even create a dating problem as suggested when you could use a Yankee photo and mark it with a copyright date a few years later, when he was blasting 40+ HR pretty much every year?
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