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John Player Special Red

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German John Player Special Red filter cigarettes, 23 in a flip-top box, recorded in 2016 with EAN-8 40305738, a Route 66 design printed on the cellophane and a price of €6.

Versions & editions

Barcode 4030573840305738

German pack, 2016[1]

Germany · supported

Evidence reviewed

Context, dates & evidence notes

Evidence observed
2016
Pack
flip-top box with cellophane
Pieces
23

Collector's record: John Player Special Red, 23 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane printed with a Route 66 design; tar 10, nicotine 0.8; producer Imperial Tobacco Germany; trade mark owner John Player & Sons

Specifications

Tar
10[1]
Conditions & original evidence

Recorded: 10

known · printed

Unit not stated by the source

Nicotine
0.8[1]
Conditions & original evidence

Recorded: 0.8

known · printed

Unit not stated by the source

Barcode
40305738 check digit OK
Pack
flip-top box with cellophane
Pieces
23
Last observed on sale
2016
Last sale evidence
German pack recorded by the zigsam.at collection in 2016
GS1 prefix
403 · Germany

About this product

John Player Special Red is a filter cigarette sold in Germany in a flip-top box of 23 under the EAN-8 barcode 40305738.[1] A cigarette-pack collection records the pack in 2016 with a Route 66 design printed on the cellophane, a price of 6 €, tar 10 and nicotine 0.8, and names Imperial Tobacco 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] In Germany the brand is run by Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH of Hamburg.[4]

The same collection records Austrian John Player Special Red packs of 20 cigarettes from 2016, 2020 and 2021 and of 23 cigarettes from 2021 under other barcodes.[1]

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Sources & research

Evidence reviewed

zigsam.at cigarette pack collection

John Player Special - regular packs since 2016

other · Accessed 2026-09-25

Source & attribution [1] ↗

Wikipedia

John Player & Sons

publication · Accessed 2026-09-25

Source & attribution [2] ↗

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 40305738, 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 2016 pack; the same collection records Austrian John Player Special Red packs of 20 and 23 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

  1. ↑ John Player Special - regular packs since 2016 zigsam.at cigarette pack collection. other. Accessed 2026-09-25. John Player Special Red, Germany 2016, 23.
  2. ↑ John Player & Sons Wikipedia. publication. Accessed 2026-09-25. CC BY-SA 4.0.
  3. ↑ 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.
  4. ↑ Impressum, jps.de Reemtsma Cigarettenfabriken GmbH. manufacturer. Accessed 2026-09-25.

Barcode & identifiers

EAN-8
40305738
GTIN-14
00000040305738
EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0000040305738

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