“老刀”牌香烟由英国惠尔斯公司生产,1891年起,通过经销合约,委托上海公发英行代销,是19世纪末最早传入中国的舶来品之一。在“老刀”牌烟标上,以大海为背景,一名水手站在甲板上,右手叉腰,左手持刀,露出得意的笑容,威风凛凛,不可一世。副图上的双简望远镜中显现出放炮手的动作和炮弹溅落在船群中的浪花,表明似乎要从海上打开通向中国的道路。在上海,由于烟标上的海盗图案,被人们习惯称之为“强盗”牌,家喻户 “Old Knife ” brand cigarettes produced by the British company Wells, since 1891, through the distribution contract, entrusted Shanghai Gongfa Yingxiao consignment, is the earliest imported into China at the end of nineteenth Century one of the exotic. In the “old knife” card marked on the background of the sea, a sailor standing on the deck, right hand akimbo, left hand knife, proud smile, majestic, mighty. The double telescope on the secondary map shows the gunner’s action and the splash of shells on the ship’s cluster, indicating that it seems that the road to China will be opened from the sea. In Shanghai, because of the pirate designs on cigarettes, people used to call them “bandit” cards, household names