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 38.004 caps (many thanks Art Z. for No. 10.000 and Udo for No. 12.000 and Guido for No. 13.000 and me for No. 15.000 and Andy for No. 16000 and Holger for No. 17.000and Eckhard for No. 18.000 and neighbor Michi for No. 19.000 (Klaus and Eike: it was a very close run, many thanks anyway!!) ;-) and Eike for No. 19.999 and Joachim B. for No. 20.000 and Joachim S., Sabine S. and Willi for No. 21.000 and Fabio for No. 22.000 and Victor for No. 23.000 and Wolfgang Sch. for No. 24.000 and Fabio for No. 25.000 and Fabio for Nr 26.000 und einige neue Länder und Benji for No. 27.000 und Dietmar for No. 28.000 and Jörg for No. 29.000 and Dietmar & Han for No. 30.000 (*) and Dietmar for No. 31.000 and Hubert for No. 32.0000 and ? at the trade meeting in Hamburg (2022) for No. 33.000 and Rüdiger for No. 34.000 and ? at the trade meeting in Hirschaid (2024) for No. 35.000 and ? at the trade meeting in Noordhorn (2024) for No. 36.000 and ? at the trade meeting in Hirschaid (2025) for No. 37.000 and Holger for No. 38.000 ... from 189 different countries and I hope the collection will continue to grow ;-)

(*) both packages arrived on the same day, so I could not decide ;-)

The latest (very very outdated!!)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 ;-)).

:-) 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, Jacky, Ute, Petr, Alexander, Rolf, Denis, Claus, Bernard, Guido, Al, Heidi, Xavier, Chris, Dietmar, Heidi, Stefan, Ingo, Eckhard, Harry ...

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):

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

Unknown:

		A	B	C	D	E
1							1
		UK?		Japan?
2							2
						Turkey?
3							3
		France?		Swiss?
4							4
		Tunesia?	North Corea?
5							5
						Iraq?
6							6
7							7
8							8
9							9
10							10
11							11
		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)

Meanwhile I found a new opener (seen at friends), which opens the crown caps without any dent:
the Jarkey jar opener (EAN:0000057020211) from Denmark. But sadly the plastic unravelled very fast.

(see www.brixdesign.com)

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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