GROSS LABEL (gross packet label)


The kind of packing label placed on a wrapper containing 144 matchboxes (dozen packs of dozen boxes). Later the name was adopted for the packet labels used on wrappers with 100 boxes (10 pack of 10 boxes). Often used for half gross and 50 boxes packing labels.

The term "Gross label" (in the meaning "big label") is also used to name a top label (or, in modern boxes - top image) of Russian souvenir boxes and briquettes.

The sizes of gross labels may differ widely.

"A packet label intended to be affixed on a gross packet - a packet containing several packets of matchboxes. The term is derived from a packet containing a total of 1 gross (1 gross = 12 dozen = 12 x 12 = 144) matchboxes. The most common configurations are: gross packet - twelve dozen packets (12 x 12 = 144); hundred packet - ten ten packets (10 x 10 = 100); half-gross packet - twelve half-dozen packets (12 x 6 = 72)." (definition from the BML&BS site)


Equvivalent Russian term Ãðîññ


Gross packet label of Russian "Sport" trade mark
From collection of Stanislav Dmitriev


Gross label of the
"Wooden architecture" souvenir set
From collection of Victor Raldugin



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