Mike's Crown Caps Collection!

Long ago... so the story of my crown caps collection starts. At the rise of the 1990's my brother-in-law wanted to play skat and my father bought some bottles of beer. By chance they were different and as we played happily (and emptied the bottles), I realized that the caps were not blank.

So I put the caps on my bookcase and started looking for the colorful caps every time I was shopping. The collection grows and when the bookcase was filled up, I started to glue the caps to small nails (with a glue gun) to pin them to a cork board (sorted).

Today I have over 15.533 (many thanks to Art Z. for no. 10.000 and Udo for no. 12.000 and Guido for no. 13.000 and me for no. 15.000 ;-)) ... from 151 different countries and I hope the collection will continue to grow ;-)

The latest (very outdated!!) list (28.02.2005) as PDF-file: deckel62.pdf

(Tip: right mouse button to save it as a file and look at it later (with Acrobat Reader)).

(I need the caps - marked with * or ** - in a good condition)

I am happy about every cap I get (it's a pitty that caps can't be sent by email ;-)).

Here I need your help!!!

Who can tell me the brewery, country and brand of the following caps?

Please feel free to mail me :-) Mike.Demuth@web.de

:-) Many thanks to:

Alex, Frank, Henry, Mathias, Rudi, Sibylle, Uwe, Christian, Darek, Frank, Thomas, Peter, Ferry, Fernando, Karl-Heinz, Falko, Wolfgang, Marco, Ludmil,

Sergey, Wim, Rich, Mika, Roland, Luis, Jonas, Jordi, Ralf, Ute, Petr, Alexander, Rolf, Denis, Claus, Bernard, Guido, Al, Heidi, Xavier ...

and every person I forgot to thank

for the help!!

List of countries (and islands) I would like to have some caps from (thanks to Immanuel for his advice) :

Unknown:

		A	B	C	D	E
1							1
2							2
3							3
					Danmark?
4							4
					Hungary!!
5							5
6							6
			Vino DDR?
7							7
						A
8							8
				Cz
9							9
10
11
				USA / Sangria
		A	B	C	D	E

Many thanks for your help!!!

2001 I got the ultimate opener as a birthday present. It opens the caps without a bend or dent. With a lighter I always hurt my fingers (I'm a Non-smoker ;-).

perfect opener :-)

(see www.mono.de)

Thanks to my small freeware program (T.W.U.S.) (the program is "crown caps ware" at least) I was able - with the help of some friendly users - to expand my collection. Even from Thailand I got some caps :-)

The last visits in Bavaria and Denmark, the trading by internet and with the help from friends and colleagues the number of caps rose remarkable.

By the way: I collect juice, water, lemon and cola caps too (if they have the typical look)...

Please see the collection in my workroom =>

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