Piedmont pack expert needed

[canjond]

Originally Posted by Pat R

The reason I asked if someone could post the section of the law that specifies the legal pack sizes is I haven't been able to find it and some information in the old thread referred to the act of August 5 1909 but that law didn't actually take effect until July 1 1910 and the distribution of the Armbruster card in the REA pack began before that date, we know this from the ledger pages in the old journal. The portion where the dates of the packing and shipping would be is missing on the PD350 page but they were distributed before the American Beauty's and Cycles.

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Also in both threads it is stated that the T206 cards were only packed with the 10 count packs but the ledger pages show that they were packed with 20's too for Sweet Caporal. Some of the other brands do say to pack with 10's but they don't specifically say to only pack with 10's and some other brands just say to pack with (name of brand) cigarettes. I can't tell what it says before in 10's pkgs in the second line.

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Pat -

Great find on that ledger page. It looks like it’s written again on the left side at the bottom (text is on the long edge of the page). 1 to 10s, 2 to 20s.

- Jon

[chriskim]

Not only finding an example of "Series of 1909" tax stamp is difficult, finding a 20 ct. Sweet Caporal in the 1910 era is difficult as well. I still couldn't find any examples so far.

[1880nonsports]

That I sold a carton of "ask dad" from circa 1917-1920 with series of 1910 and the packs were soft 20's and there wasn't a card in sight when one was opened. Not even an ask dad card......

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by chriskim

Not only finding an example of "Series of 1909" tax stamp is difficult, finding a 20 ct. Sweet Caporal in the 1910 era is difficult as well. I still couldn't find any examples so far.

Chris, Here's 20 count pack from that era

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https://memorylaneinc.com/site/bids/...e?itemid=54016

[chriskim]

Originally Posted by Pat R

https://memorylaneinc.com/site/bids/...e?itemid=54016

Thankyou Pat! So 20ct packs were soft packs not slide shell packs.

[jbsports33]

Mine with the stamp only had 10 cigs!

Jimmy