Product record
John Player Special American Blend Blue
German John Player Special American Blend Blue filter cigarettes, 24 in a flip-top box, recorded in 2005 with EAN-8 40305097 and "€ 4.40 BIG BOX" printed on the cellophane.
Versions & editions
40305097German pack, 2005[1]
Germany · supported
Evidence reviewed
Context, dates & evidence notes
- Evidence observed
- 2005
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Pieces
- 24
Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Blue, 24 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane printed "€ 4.40 BIG BOX"; producer Reemtsma Germany; trade mark owner John Player & Sons
Specifications
Product facts
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- Brand
- John Player Special
- Family
- John Player Special
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Sold in
- 🇩🇪 Germany[1]
- Pieces
- 24
- Last observed on sale
- 2005
- Last sale evidence
- German pack recorded by the zigsam.at collection in 2005
- GS1 prefix
- 403 · Germany
About this product
John Player Special American Blend Blue is a filter cigarette sold in Germany in a flip-top box of 24 under the EAN-8 barcode 40305097.[1] A cigarette-pack collection records the pack in 2005 with "€ 4.40 BIG BOX" printed on the cellophane, tar 6 and nicotine 0.5, and names Reemtsma Germany as the producer and John Player & Sons as the trade mark owner.[1] The John Player Special line comes from John Player & Sons of Nottingham, part of Imperial Tobacco since 1901, and is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands, which launched the JPS line in the United Kingdom in 1970.[2][3]
The same collection records a later German 24-piece American Blend Blue box of 2009, printed "24 JPS CIGARETTES € 5.00" on the cellophane, under barcode 40296203, and German packs of 17 (2009), 19 (2005) and 28 (2010) under other barcodes.[1]
Where it's sold
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Germany EUR 4.40 Collector's record of a German 2005 John Player Special American Blend Blue pack of 24 filter cigarettes with barcode 40305097; "€ 4.40 BIG BOX" printed on the cellophane, price €4.40
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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 40305097, 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
- markets · stale: The only record of this barcode is the German 2005 pack; the collection records a later German 24-piece American Blend Blue box of 2009 under barcode 40296203 and German packs of 17, 19 and 28 under other barcodes
- 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.
- 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 American Blend Blue, Germany 2005, 24.
- ↑ 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
40305097- GTIN-14
00000040305097- EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0000040305097
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