Product record
John Player Special Silver
Austrian John Player Special Silver filter cigarettes, 20 in a flip-top box, sold as American Blend Silver in 2004 and 2005 and as John Player Special Silver from 2006 to 2015 under EAN-8 42048718.
Versions & editions
42048718Austrian American Blend Silver pack, 2004[1]
Austria · supported
Evidence reviewed
Context, dates & evidence notes · Other observations
- Evidence observed
- 2004
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Pieces
- 20
Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Silver, 20 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced by a version with the Austrian health warning in 2005
Other observations & source differences (4)
Different sources or national labels can coexist. Differences alone do not establish a change to the product.
- Austrian American Blend Silver pack, 2004 supported · selected
Collector's record: John Player Special American Blend Silver, 20 filter cigarettes in a flip-top box with cellophane; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced by a version with the Austrian health warning in 2005
- Austrian American Blend Silver pack, 2005 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: the pack with € 3.30 printed on the cellophane, available during April and May 2005; producer Reemtsma Germany
- Austrian John Player Special Silver, 2006 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: the pack now named John Player Special Silver; producer Reemtsma Germany; replaced by a new design in March 2012
- Austrian John Player Special Silver, 2012 supported · Compare evidence
Collector's record: the 2012 design; producer Imperial Tobacco, Germany; replaced by a version with the big health warning in August 2016. Packs of this design with cellophane promotions were recorded in 2014 and 2015
Specifications
- tar
- 7[1]
Conditions & original evidence
Recorded: 7
known · printed
Unit not stated by the source; the same figure is recorded for the 2005 and 2006 packs
- nicotine
- 0.6[1]
Conditions & original evidence
Recorded: 0.6
known · printed
Unit not stated by the source; the same figure is recorded for the 2005 and 2006 packs
Product facts
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- Brand
- John Player Special
- Family
- John Player Special
- Pack
- flip-top box with cellophane
- Sold in
- 🇦🇹 Austria[1]
- Pieces
- 20
- Last observed on sale
- 2015
- Last sale evidence
- Austrian pack recorded by the zigsam.at collection, on sale from September until December 2015
- GS1 prefix
- 420 · Germany
- Replaced by
- 4030600122792 (no page yet)
About this product
John Player Special Silver is a filter cigarette sold in Austria in a flip-top box of 20 under the EAN-8 barcode 42048718.[1] A cigarette-pack collection records the barcode on Austrian packs from 2004 to 2015: as John Player Special American Blend Silver in 2004 and 2005, with tar 7 and nicotine 0.6, and as John Player Special Silver from 2006, redesigned in March 2012 with tar 4 and nicotine 0.4.[1] It names Reemtsma Germany as the producer of the early packs, Imperial Tobacco for the later ones, and John Player & Sons as the trade mark owner.[1] The line is owned and marketed by Imperial Brands, which launched JPS in the United Kingdom in 1970.[2][3]
The recorded price rose from 3.10 € in 2004 to 4.40 € in 2015, and packs from 2014 and 2015 carried prize-draw prints on the cellophane.[1] In August 2016 the pack was replaced by a version with the large health warning, which the collection records under barcode 4030600122792 in its 2016, 2018 and 2020 designs.[1][4]
Where it's sold
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 4.40 · new Collector's record of the Austrian pack with a "JETZT MINI COOPER WORKS GEWINNEN!" print on the cellophane, on sale from September until December 2015
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 4.20 · new Collector's record of the Austrian pack with a "€ 10.000,- GEWINNEN!" print on the cellophane, on sale from July until October 2014
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 3.80 · new Collector's record of the Austrian 2012 redesign with barcode 42048718
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 3.25 · new Collector's record of the Austrian 2006 John Player Special Silver pack with barcode 42048718
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 3.30 · new Collector's record of the Austrian 2005 American Blend Silver pack with € 3.30 printed on the cellophane, on sale during April and May 2005
- John Player Special - regular packs until 2015 information[1] Austria EUR 3.10 · new Collector's record of the Austrian 2004 John Player Special American Blend Silver pack of 20 filter cigarettes with barcode 42048718
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Other names for this product
Also known as
- John Player Special American Blend Silver 2004–2005
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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: 4 / 4 · Evidence groups assigned to a researched label, edition or analysis
- Label photographs: 0 / 4 · Researched contexts with an assigned photograph
- Specifications: 0 / 4 · Recorded specifications mapped to comparable property keys
- relationships · unknown: No source names the GS1 licensee of EAN-8 42048718, so no gs1_prefix_owner edge. GS1 Austria 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 latest record of this barcode is the Austrian pack on sale from September until December 2015; the collection records the Austrian John Player Special Silver pack of 20 from 2016 under barcode 4030600122792
- 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.
- 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 Silver and Silver, Austria 2004-2015.
- ↑ 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. Upstream: https://www.imperialbrandsplc.com/our-brands.
- ↑ John Player Special - regular packs since 2016 zigsam.at cigarette pack collection. other. Accessed 2026-09-25. John Player Special Silver, Austria 2016-2022.
Barcode & identifiers
- EAN-8
42048718- GTIN-14
00000042048718- EAN-13 / GTIN-13
0000042048718
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