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A MERCHANDISE INVENTORY CONTROL DEVICE COMPRISING A STOCK LIST PART AND A SEPARATE CONTROL SHEET PART EACH OF WHICH INCLUDES INDEXING MEANS CONJOINTLY OPERATIVE TO INDEX THE PARTS TO ONE ANOTHER SO THAT A SPECIFIC DATA BEARING PORTION OF SAID CONTROL SHEET IS VISIBLY DISPOSED IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO A SPECIFIC TERMINATING EDGE PORTION OF SAID STOCK LIST, SAID STOCK LIST INDEXING MEANS CONSISTING OF A POCKET FORMED BY FOLDING A PORTION OF SAID STOCK LIST PART BACK UPON ITSELF ALONG A DEFINED FOLD LINE, SAID CONTROL SHEET INDEXING MEANS CONSISTING OF ONE EDGE OF SAID CONTROL SHEET WHICH IS DISPOSABLE WITHIN SAID STOCK LIST INDEXING POCKET WITH THE SAID ONE EDGE IN ABUTMENT WITH THE POCKET BOTTOM AND A PLURALITY OF PARALLEL EQUI-SPACED FOLD LINES DEFINED ON SAID CONTROL SHEET, SAID FOLD LINES BEING ALSO PARALLEL TO THE SAID ONE EDGE OF SAID CONTROL SHEET DISPOSABLE WITHIN THE POCKET OF SAID STOCK LIST, SAID CONTROL SHEET BEING SELECTIVELY FOLDABLE ALONG A DESIRED ONE OF SAID FOLD LINES TO THEREBY DEFINE A NEW EDGE OF SAID CONTROL SHEET FOR ABUTTING DISPOSITION WITHIN THE AFORESAID POCKET OF A STOCK LIST WHEREBY SAID CONTROL SHEET MAY BE INDEXED TO A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT STOCK LISTS OF THE SAME PHYSICAL FORM AS THE AFORESAID STOCK LIST, SAID CONTROL SHEET BEING WIDER THAN SAID STOCK LIST IN A DIRECTION MEASURED LATERALLY FROM THE STOCK LIST POCKET BOTTOM SO THAT SAID STOCK LIST OVERLIES A PORTION OF SAID CONTROL SHEET AND SAID CONTROL SHEET EXTENDS LATERALLY OUTWARD BEYOND SAID STOCK LIST, AND WHEN SO INDEXED THE PERTINENT CONTROL SHEET DATA APPEARS VISIBLY THEREON IMMEDIATELY LATERALLY ADJACENT TO THE STOCK LIST TERMINATING EDGE, AND INDICATING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH OF SAID CONTROL SHEET PLURALITY OF FOLD LINES AND SAID ONE EDGE AND WITH EACH STOCK LIST FOR DENOTING WHICH SPECIFIC FOLD LINE OF SAID ONE EDGE OF SAID CONTROL SHEET IS TO BE USED WHEN IT IS DESIRED TO INDEX THE CONTROL SHEET TO A SPECIFIC STOCK LIST.