Blister

Blister is a word English indicating in the beginning the bulbs in Verre with medical use and which one could represent by hull or cupola (for a Avion).

This term is used much in France by the collectors of figurines: it indicates the whole of the case containing a figurine (Bulle and Cartonnette) constituting an object of collection as well as the figurine left its box, “lost” (Loose).

Sometimes translated by packing hull, it is about a transparent form, generally thermoformée in a rigid sheet of PVC or FART, which makes it possible to see the object of the purchase. This hull is:

  • stuck on a cardboard,
  • welded onto another hull or a sheet of plastic,
  • fastened on a support, generally out of printed paperboard.

This provision makes it possible to increase the size of the object, to develop it in an ECRIN, to prevent from handling it or to deteriorate it and to prevent that it can disappear in the pocket from a robber. Very often, this blister is bored of a slit which allows its presentation suspended in the rays self-service.

It is also a term used in the edition and the press and indicating the setting under transparent plastic film of a magazine, either because it contains a supplement which cannot be sold separately, or because its contents should not be exposed with the sight of all.

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