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Advertising Poster Tobacco Pirate Cigarettes Shanghai UK China - Original vintage cigarettes advertising poster label for Pirate brand for the Chinese market. Featuring an open soft pack of Pirate Cigarettes revealing rows of tobacco sticks wrapped in silver foil packaging, with an image of a traditional swashbuckling pirate captain with a crown, a colourful tunic, and a scimitar sword, standing proudly on the deck of a wooden sailing ship alongside a cannon, Chinese calligraphy reads - Old Knife Brand Cigarettes. British American Tobacco Company, with registration markings, printer stamps, and serial numbers 7-10-17 A on the lower left margins. Issued by the British American Tobacco Co. (B.A.T.) for W.D. & H.O. Wills (Bristol & London). Good condition, staining, minor creasing. Country of issue: China, designer: Unknown, size (cm): 21.5x13, year of printing: 1920s.