Product record
John Player Special Original Black
John Player Special Original Black filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with EAN-8 40304946, recorded by a pack collection in Germany (18 pieces, 2003) and Austria (20 pieces, 2003 and 2004); made by Reemtsma.
Versions & editions
40304946Austrian pack, 2004[1]
Austria · supported
Evidence reviewed
Context, dates & evidence notes · Other observations
- Evidence observed
- 2004
- Known applicable from
- 2004-01
- Known applicable until
- 2005
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Pieces
- 20
Collector's record: John Player Special Original Black, 20 filter cigarettes, 3.40 €; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced in 2005 by a version with the Austrian health warning, which carries barcode 42048947
Other observations & source differences (3)
Different sources or national labels can coexist. Differences alone do not establish a change to the product.
- German pack, 2003 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: John Player Special Original Black, 18 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane, 3 €; producer Reemtsma; trade mark owner John Player & Sons
- Austrian pack, 2003 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: John Player Special Original Black, 20 filter cigarettes, 3.40 €; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced the Austrian John Player Special pack in September 2003 and was replaced in January 2004 by a version with a big health warning and lowered tar
- Austrian pack, 2004 supported · selected
Collector's record: John Player Special Original Black, 20 filter cigarettes, 3.40 €; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced in 2005 by a version with the Austrian health warning, which carries barcode 42048947
Specifications
Product facts
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- 40304946 check digit OK
- Brand
- John Player Special
- Family
- John Player Special
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Sold in
- 🇩🇪 Germany[1], 🇦🇹 Austria[1]
- Pieces
- 20
- Last observed on sale
- 2004
- Last sale evidence
- Austrian 2004 pack recorded by the zigsam.at collection, replaced in 2005 by a pack with barcode 42048947
- GS1 prefix
- 403 · Germany
About this product
John Player Special Original Black is a filter cigarette in a flip-top box sold under the EAN-8 barcode 40304946.[1] A cigarette-pack collection records the barcode on a German pack of 18 from 2003 at 3 € and on Austrian packs of 20 from 2003 and 2004 at 3.40 €, naming Reemtsma as the producer and John Player & Sons as the trade mark owner.[1] The John Player Special line is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands, which launched it in the United Kingdom in 1970 as a Virginia blend.[2][3]
In Austria Original Black replaced the plain John Player Special pack in September 2003; in January 2004 it took a bigger health warning with tar lowered from 12 to 10, and in 2005 a version with the Austrian health warning replaced it under barcode 42048947.[1]
Where it's sold
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 3.40 Collector's records of Austrian packs of 20 with barcode 40304946 from 2003 and 2004, each at 3.40 €
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Germany EUR 3.00 Collector's record of a German 2003 John Player Special Original Black pack of 18 filter cigarettes with barcode 40304946, price 3 €
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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 (10)
Coverage measures the evidence recorded here. It does not rate the product.
- Identity: 3 / 3 · Name, brand and classification recorded
- Context: 3 / 3 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
- Label photographs: 0 / 3 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
- Specifications: 0 / 6 · Recorded specifications mapped to comparable property keys
- relationships · unknown: No source names the GS1 licensee of EAN-8 40304946, so no gs1_prefix_owner edge. GS1 Germany allocates EAN-8 numbers one at a time, so there is no company prefix to read from the number
- specifications · unknown: The collection gives tar and nicotine as bare numbers without units, so the rows keep no unit
- identity · unknown: One barcode on packs of 18 (Germany) and 20 (Austria), so the page carries no single net content; the piece count is on each observation
- markets · stale: The latest record of this barcode is the Austrian 2004 pack; a Portuguese shop page that lists reference 40304946 as John Player Special Black returned an empty body and was not read
- images · unknown: No freely licensed photograph of this pack was found: the zigsam.at pack photographs carry no licence
- evidence · stale: Evidence was observed over a year ago; check for newer labels. Historical evidence remains valid.
- evidence · stale: Evidence was observed over a year ago; check for newer labels. Historical evidence remains valid.
- evidence · stale: Evidence was observed over a year ago; check for newer labels. Historical evidence remains valid.
- 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 Original Black Germany 2003; Austria 2003, 2004.
- ↑ John Player & Sons Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-25. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ↑ 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.
Barcode & identifiers
- EAN-8
40304946- GTIN-14
00000040304946- EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0000040304946
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