It's rare to find a paper soft pack, which in the trade is known as a "cup", made before the turn of the 20th Century. It wasn't until years after the 1911 American Tobacco Company trust dissolution that the four spun-off manufacturers adopted the inexpensive "cup" as their package of choice. Three separate machines are needed to produce this type of package: a cup-making machine that folded, formed, and glued the outer label, another that placed cigarettes in a paper or foil inner wrapper, and a third machine that inserted the wrapped cigarettes into the formed cup. Before the First World War, the style of package i.e., slide & shell, clam-shell box, lithographed tin or "cup", and the number of cigarettes per pack, were decisions made at the highest level of management. Pictured below are two hard to find circa 1900 soft packs from The American Tobacco Company, successor to Kinney Bros. Both of these beautiful packs were made in New York City.