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A PREFABRICATED WRAPPER ESPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR WRAPPING CONTAINERS OF PARALLELEPIPED CONFIGURATION AND OF PREDETERMINED SIZE, SAID WRAPPER COMPRISING: AN OPEN ENDED FLAT TUBULAR MEMBER FORMED FROM A GENERALLY QUADRILATERALLY SHAPED SHEET OF WRAPPER MATERIAL HAVING TWO OPPOSED ENDS OF THE MATERIAL SECURED TOGETHER IN OVERLAPPING RELATION TO FORM A SEAM THAT EXTENDS LONGITUDINALLY OF SAID MEMBER, SAID MEMBER DEFINING CREASED MARGINAL SIDE EDGES THAT EXTEND LONGITUDINALLY THEREOF, AND TOP AND BOTTOM SIDES SEPARATED BY SAID SIDE EDGES, SAID SIDE EDGES EACH BEING FORMED BY THE ADJACENT PORTIONS OF SAID BOTTOM AND TOP SIDES ALONG THE RESPECTIVE SIDE EDGES BEING FOLDED FLAT, ONE OF SAID CREASED SIDE EDGES DEFINING AN OUTFOLD CREASE LINE, SAID MEMBER BEING COATED WITH A PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE ON THE EXTERIOR SURFACE OF ONE SIDE THEREOF AND THROUGHOUT AN AREA BORDERING AND COEXTENSIVE WITH THE OTHER OF SAID SIDE EDGES, SAID MEMBER ALSO BEING COATED ON SAID SURFACE OF SAID ONE SIDE THEREOF WITH A PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE THROUGHOUT A SECOND AREA PARALLELING SAID FIRST AREA AND HAVING ITS INNER MARGIN SPACED FROM SAID OUTFOLD CREASE LINE APPROXIMATELY THE WIDTH OF THE CONTAINER SIZE TO BE WRAPPED, SAID MEMBER BEING PROPORTIONED SO THAT SAID INNER MARGIN OF SAID SECOND AREA IS SPACED FROM SAID OTHER EDGE THEREOF A DISTANCE APPROXIMATING TWICE THE HEIGHT OF THE CONTAINER SIZE TO BE WRAPPED, SAID SEAM BEING LOCATED WITHIN THE LAST MENTIONED DISTANCE, SAID MEMBER AT EITHER END THEREOF HAVING SAID SIDE THEREOF INDENTED INWARDLY OF THE OTHER SIDE THEREOF, SAID MEMBER BEING COATED WITH A PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE ON SAID SURFACE OF SAID ONE SIDE THEREOF AT EITHER END THEREOF AND THROUGHOUT AN AREA AT EITHER END THEREOF THAT BORDERS THE RESPECTIVE INDENTATIONS, SAID MEMBER BEING FURTHER COATED WITH A PRESSURE SENSITIVE ADHESIVE ON THE INTERIOR SURFACE OF SAID OTHER SIDE THEREOF AT EITHER END THEREOF THROUGHOUT AN AREA AT EITHER END THEREOF THAT UNDERLIES THE RESPECTIVE INDENTATIONS OF SAID ONE SIDE THEREOF, SAID MEMBER SIDES EACH BEING FORMED WITH AN END FLAP FORMING FOLD LINE AT EITHER END OF SAID MEMBER, WITH SAID END FLAP FORMING FOLD LINES OF EACH SIDE OF SAID MEMBER EXTENDING TRANSFERSELY THEREOF AND BEING SPACED APART APPROXIMATELY THE LENGTH OF THE CONTAINER SIZE TO BE WRAPPED, WHEREBY, WHEN SAID MEMBER IS OPENED BY SEPARATING SAID SIDES THEREOF TO RECEIVE THE CONTAINER TO BE WRAPPED, ON POSITIONING ONE LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING CORNER EDGE OF THE CONTAINER IN INTERFITTING ENGAGEMENT WITH SAID OUTFOLD CREASE LINE AND CENTERING THE CONTAINER BETWEEN SAID ADHESIVE COATED AREAS AT THE ENDS OF SAID MEMBER, THE PORTION OF SAID MEMBER BETWEEN SAID OTHER EDGE THEREOF AND SAID INNER MARGIN OF THE SECOND MENTIONED ADHESIVE COATED AREA OF SAID ONE SIDE THEREOF MAY BE DOUBLED OVER FLAT AGAINST THE ADJACENT SIDE OF THE CONTAINER USING AS A CENTER THE LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING CORNER EDGE OF THE CONTAINER THAT IS DIAGONALLY OPPOSITE SAID ONE CORNER EDGE THEREOF, WITH THE END FLAPS OF SAID ONE SIDE OF THE MEMBER BEING TURNED AGAINST THE RESPECTIVE ENDS OF THE CONTAINER AND THE END FLAPS OF SAID OTHER SIDE OF THE MEMBER BEING TURNED AGAINST THE RESPECTIVE SAID ONE SIDE END FLAPS TO PROVIDE A HIDDEN SEAMED UNIFORM APPEARING GIFT WRAPPED CONTAINER IN WHICH ALL EXPOSED PORTIONS OF THE WRAPPER ARE FREE FROM DECORATION MARRING DISCONTINUITIES.