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Fairly old, I'd say mid 1970s, but not particularly rare.

You're right - class B (1.3G) exploders are legal for those properly licensed in the US.
1.3 crackers are made in China, India, and elsewhere for domestic use and for export to foreign retail...

Any cracker with more than 50 mg. of powder is classified as "1.3G" and is banned in the US by federal law. Louder, yes; legal, no.

Rockets can be good, and some made by "amateurs" are far better than the commercial rockets on the US market. The problem with rockets is that they are less safe than shells. That casing and stick...

Unless you have the label from the pack that cracker came from, there is no way to identify the brand. That same case wrap was probably used on many different brands of crackers

If someone hits you with a brick, do you blame the brick or the brickmaker?
Somehow sports stay legal, even though some die and many are injured annually as a result - far more than with fireworks....