As many of you know, I have spent days trying to zero in on making this issue much more clearer than what's already out there, sort of a "one stop shop."
After spending countless hours studying, analyzing many sealed copies of the 4 big Pirates sets from 1989 (because they had open flaps) from UPC codes to the numbers beside them to the numbers printed on the back of the boxes and in some cases inside front flaps, I sadly can conclude the following:
The ONLY way to accurately know whic