National Item Identification Number

GROUP 99 Miscellaneous 9905 Signs, Advertising Displays, and Identification Plates Includes Electric Signs; Sign Boards; Display Stands; Mannequins and other display forms; Printed Signs; General Purpose Identification Tags and Blanks, Non-personal; Plates and Tags for specific applications. 9910 Jewelry Includes Jewelers’ Findings; Precious Stones, Cut; Costume Jewelery; Natural Gems and Ornamental Stones, Cut. Excludes Watches; Clocks; Tableware; Scientific Instruments; Toilet Articles; Smokers’ Articles. 9915 Collectors’ Items Includes Stamps; Rare Books; Works of Art; Coins; Antiques. 9920 Smokers’ Articles and Matches Includes Cigarette Lighters; Lighter Fluid; Pipe Reamers; Ash Trays; Tobacco Humidors; Packaged Cigarette Paper. Excludes Ash receivers and lighters specifically designed for installation in or on equip- ment. 9925 Ecclesiastical Equipment, Furnishings and Supplies Includes Vestments; Altars; Communion Sets; Ecclesiastical Candelabra; Chalices; Patens; Altar Cloths; Ecclesiastical Statuary; Sacramental Wine. 9930 Memorials; Cemeterial and Mortuary Equipment and Supplies Includes Grave Markers; Burial Vaults; Burial Urns; Caskets; Burial Boxes; Mortician’s Supplies; Monuments; Casket Shipping Cases. Excludes Hearses; Mortuary Refrigerators. 9999 Miscellaneous Items Includes only those items which cannot conceivably be classified in any existing classes. Figure II-2-2.—Breakdown of Federal Supply Classification (FSC) Group 99. Most of the items used in the Command which identifies each item in the Federal Supply Religious Program will have either the NCB Distribution System. The NIIN is especially Code 00 or 01. important when ecclesiastical supplies are ordered. Figure II-2-3 shows the same item National Item Identification (CANDLE, VOTIVE) under three distinct Number NSNS. The FSC (9925) is the same, but the NIIN is quite different indicating that the items As stated previously, the National Item Iden- are unique with respect to each other. To tification Number (NIIN) is a 9-digit number place an order, the RP would need to know 2-4