Sunday, June 19, 2011

And you think you're old...

Did some research into the approximate ages of my cork caps.  Bouncing between Crown Cap Collectors Int'l website and Tavern Trove.  Two of them avoided any detection- the Cock 'N Bull that I mentioned in an earlier post and a relatively new Japanese cap from Asahi, which I'm guessing was new when I acquired it in the mid-80s.  Two more- a modern looking Budweiser and a lookalike with a Kansas sunflower on the bottom- also defied me, but most Budweisers with the red ring around the edge like these had dated from 1945, and I'll list them there.  Some you've met on this blog previously, some you will meet later on.  All dates are from the earliest issue of the closest matching cap I could find on the two sites.

Unknown:
Cock 'N Bull, (book)1/(board)2
Asahi, 3/17

1965- Budweiser, blue background and white text, 3/23
1962- Breunig's, 3/20; Pabst Blue Ribbon, the familiar blue-on-silver, 3/16
1960- Flecks, 3/23
1959- Drewrys "big D", 1/3; Black Label "two swirl", 1/1
1958- Rainier, 3/23
1956- Berghoff "gold", 3/23; Rolling Rock, the PA 2 cents tax, 3/21; Black Label "one swirl"
1955- Rheingold, 3/15; Busch, 1/2
1952- Beverwyck Irish Cream Ale, 3/23
1950- Gunther "keystone tax", 3/20; Schlitz white background, 3/20; Burgie, 3/15; Regal Pale Ale, 3/15; Old Crown red, 1/5
1949- Blatz, 3/23; Drewrys "South Bend", 3/21
1948- Drewrys red mountie, 3/21; Hamms, both the red with white text and red with gold text, 3/21; Rolling Rock, the 1/2 pint tax, 3/21;  Pabst Blue Ribbon, gold background, 3/21; Gunther, VA tax, 3/15; Old German, VA tax, 3/15
1947- Schlitz, light-cream background, 3/21; Meister Brau, 3/21; Hamms, blue with white text, 3/21.
1946- Drewrys white mountie, 3/21
1945- Budweiser red ring (?); Budweiser, red ring, KS (?)
1941- Schlitz, dark-cream, 3/21; Pabst Breweries, 3/21
1940- Bud, 3/23
1937- Falls City Hi-Bru, 3/23
1936- Berghoff "famous black", 3/23
1935- Muskegon, 3/15
1933, Berghoff "Fort Wayne", 3/23; Miller "High Life Co.", 3/21; Alpen Brau, 3/20.

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