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John Player Special International 20 cigarettes 20 cigarettes flip-top box with cellophane
German 1980s pack of 20 John Player Special International filter cigarettes in a black flip-top box, EAN-8 40304489, made by Reemtsma.
Versions & editions
40304489German pack, 1980s[2]
Germany · English · supported
Evidence reviewed
Context, dates & evidence notes
- Net content
- 20 cigarettes
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Pieces
- 20
Collector's record and front photograph: black box with the gold JPS monogram, "JOHN PLAYER SPECIAL INTERNATIONAL", the royal arms and "By appointment to H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, John Player & Sons Nottingham Tobacco Manufacturers"; the catalogue dates it to the 1980s
Specifications
Product facts
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- Brand
- John Player Special
- Family
- John Player Special
- Net content
- 20 cigarettes
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Sold in
- 🇩🇪 Germany[1]
- Pieces
- 20
- GS1 prefix
- 403 · Germany
About this product
John Player Special International is a filter cigarette of the JPS line, recorded by a cigarette-pack collection on a German pack of 20 in a flip-top box from the 1980s carrying the EAN-8 barcode 40304489, priced at 5.40 DM, with tar 15 and nicotine 1.2.[1] The collector names Reemtsma as the producer and John Player & Sons as the trade mark owner.[1] The black box carries the gold JPS monogram and, under the royal arms, the words "By appointment to H.M. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother" and "John Player & Sons Nottingham Tobacco Manufacturers".[2]
The JPS line was launched in the United Kingdom in 1970 and is owned today by Imperial Brands.[3] John Player & Sons, founded in Nottingham in 1877, became a branch of the Imperial Tobacco Company in 1901.[4] The same collection records an earlier John Player Special International pack of 20 made by Austria Tabak for Austria, whose production started in December 1975; it shows no barcode.[1]
Where it's sold
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Germany DEM 5.40 Collector's record of a German pack from the 1980s, 20 filter cigarettes, with barcode 40304489 and price 5.40 DM
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Other names for this product
Also known as
- John Player Special International
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Sources & research
Evidence reviewed
zigsam.at cigarette pack collection
John Player Special - regular packs until 2015
other · Accessed 2026-09-25
Source & attribution [1] ↗Imperial Brands
Imperial Brands: our brands, JPS entry and brand timeline (13 September 2026 capture)
manufacturer · Accessed 2026-09-25
Source & attribution [3] ↗Coverage & research gaps (7)
Coverage measures the evidence recorded here. It does not rate the product.
- Identity: 3 / 3 · Name, brand and classification recorded
- Context: 1 / 1 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
- Label photographs: 0 / 1 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
- Specifications: 0 / 2 · Recorded specifications mapped to comparable property keys
- relationships · unknown: No source names the GS1 licensee of EAN-8 40304489, so no gs1_prefix_owner edge; GS1 Germany allocates EAN-8 numbers one at a time, so the number carries no company prefix
- markets · stale: The only dated evidence for this barcode is the collector's 1980s German pack; the collection records no later pack of John Player Special International under this number, and neither the maker nor a retailer lists it today
- packaging · unknown: Only the front of the pack is photographed, so the back, the health warning and any tax stamp are not transcribed
- images · unknown: The zigsam.at pack photograph carries no licence, so no picture is attached
- evidence · unknown: Evidence observation date is not recorded.
- images · not_researched: No product photographs recorded.
- schema · schema_gap: Some specifications retain source labels without comparable property keys.
All references & source details
References
- ↑ John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 zigsam.at cigarette pack collection. other. Accessed 2026-09-25. John Player Special International, Germany 1980's; Austria around 1980.
- ↑ John Player Special International 20DE198 (pack photograph) zigsam.at cigarette pack collection. other. Accessed 2026-09-25. Front of the German pack.
- ↑ Imperial Brands: our brands, JPS entry and brand timeline (13 September 2026 capture) Imperial Brands. manufacturer. Published 2026-09-13. Accessed 2026-09-25. JPS entry and brand timeline. Upstream: https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands.
- ↑ John Player & Sons Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-25. History, 1877 and the 1901 merger. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Barcode & identifiers
- EAN-8
40304489- GTIN-14
00000040304489- EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0000040304489
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