Abstract: The folded pack consists of one piece, this part being produced from a substantially rectangular strip of board-like material (board blank), which is folded at fold lines (2-7) running transversely with respect to its longitudinal axis and spaced apart along the axis, the base part wrapping around the object to be packed by at least 360° and consisting of a front wall (8), a base part (9) and two side walls (10, 11) for holding the object (21) to be packed, the pack surrounding the elongated object in the shape of a parallelepiped, at least one viewing window (18) being cut out of the front wall (8) and one side wall (11), at least one edge zone of the viewing window (17) providing a holding function for the object (21).

Abstract: A description is given of a fluorescent lamp having spacers 6 for supporting a wall 2 of the discharge vessel, the fluorescent layer 3 having (8) a reduced thickness in a surrounding region of the spacer 6.