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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 1353057, member: 11668&quot;]Brick labels.&nbsp; In the old days, forty straps of notes would be placed between two wooden blocks, with a label like this on one end, held together with steel bands.&nbsp; The whole thing was then wrapped in brown paper, with a second copy of the label on the outside.</p><p><br /></p><p>These were sometimes collected in the form of &quot;label sets&quot;: the first and last notes of the brick were saved along with the brick label.&nbsp; You might want to check that collection and see if the relevant notes are included....</p><p><br /></p><p>Sometime around 1990 (plus or minus a few years) the BEP switched to shrink-wrap for the bricks.&nbsp; They also added a level of packaging: they now wrap ten straps to a bundle and four bundles to a brick, instead of just forty straps into a brick directly.&nbsp; The Fed tends to break the bricks down into bundles before shipping them out, so you don&#039;t often see labels for anything larger than a 1000-note unit reaching the public any more.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two styles of the old paper brick labels, and a modern bundle label:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]157144.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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