On the face of it, gummed labels and rubber bands are not the stuff of high finance.

He lifted a tiny oval and turned it to face the class, reading from the small gummed label affixed to its back.

He worked somewhat awkwardly as the previously prepared gummed label was still concealed in his left palm.

Could the machine have kicked out the tube for another cause, say a turned-up edge of the gummed label?

Shepard also began printing gummed labels for each case listing the cases that cited it.

The doctor also set out several gummed labels and a number of small fruit jars filled with a colorless liquid.

The same illusion impelled the purchase of red-bordered gummed labels sometime in the 1960's.

His name and the building's address were written on the gummed label in a spiky backhand script that seemed familiar.

A gummed label on the lid bore a neatly hand-printed haiku.

Color and shape floated free in a space that he could cut, as if with a very sharp knife, or peel off like a gummed label.

Things like telephone books, gummed labels and air freight envelopes have no place in containers intended to collect office papers.

Suppose the gummed label had peeled off entirely; in such case the tube would have gone to the same destination as the two cover-up tubes.

LEAD: To the Editor: Instead of taking your address book, pack preprinted gummed labels.

Delaguerra stopped beside a sheeted table and got a tendollar bill from his wallet, got a small gummed label from a pocket in the wallet.

To accommodate the late start, poll workers at 9,700 polling places will have to put gummed labels on the bottom of more than 45 million pre-printed national and provincial ballots before handing them to voters.

Not only could it cut out the odd shape of an envelope, but a knife could be used to cut out shapes of airmail stickers or gummed labels in the shape of stars or circles.

In what I suspect was an innocent yet irresponsible move, the shop selling reproductions of sporting paintings identifies each work on a gummed label attached to the back, using the title of the original work and the name of the original artist.

These covers are destined to become quite valuable, but this should not be taken as a suggestion that hobbyists try to outfox the Postal Service by using the gummed labels in "The 1990 Doonesbury Stamp Album" in lieu of stamps.

Her only pleasure in it now was the notes left all over the place by her father: cheery instructions in a classical scholar's hand, written on the gummed labels used by the more pious English government departments to get a second use out of old envelopes.

Hozier's HISTORY OF THE RUSSO-TURKISH WAR (brown cloth, a volumes, with gummed label, Garrison Library, Governor's Parade, Gibraltar, on verso of cover).

HydrOx Mist (Administer as needed typed neatly on the gummed label he pasted on each aspirator bottle) was wonderfully cheap, but even Mrs Kaspbrak was willing to admit that it controlled her son's asthma quite well in spite of that fact.