Anyone Collect Beer Cans?

[Steve Valentine]

I went to the Flea Market day hoping to find some artifacts and instead came home with these old Beer Cans. I used to collect them years ago but got rid of all of mine but I got such a good deal I couldn't pass them up. If anybody here collects these or wants them I would trade them all for a decent point. Almost every one of these are the old style metal cans except for the JR Ewing's Private Stock which are aluminum. There is an entire 6 pack of those. Also, almost all of them have been opened from the bottom so they still have the pull tabs. The 2 on the far right are actually soda cans but are also the old style cans.

Just let me know.

[manoman]

I used to collect them in High School....used to use fish line and string them up in rows. Covered all the walls of my bedroom from floor to ceiling. It seemed fun at the time, but we had to drink the contents first.

[Steve Valentine]

I used to collect them back in high school too and had around 300 to 400 cans at one time. My friends and I would would drive out to remote spots in the county and walk the roads picking them up when we seen one we needed. I remember we found this old dump one time and we all scored some really old and rare cans. I found one called Charge Beer that showed a Cavalry Charge on the front of the can and I was the only one that had one. I had all of of those and some old beer lights and signs up in Mom and Dads attic but I guess when they put in new insulation about 15 years ago they must have thrown them away since they aren't up there anymore. Mom said she thought she called and asked if I still wanted them but I don't recall that, so oh well.

[erb]

I collected them in college and kept them in my dorm room. Kind of stupid because it was a dry campus and the RA reported me. Almost got kicked out of school.

[Flyjunkie]

I collect Cans from High school thru first years of College.. Had a Nice collection.. found lotsa pretty good cans at the Old Mine sites in the Eastern Sierra... Sold my entire collection when i was 24... I just lost interest in collecting them...

Those Old ones look pretty good thought....

[drdave514]

Pretty cool. I've never collected cans. I do however collect the contents. IN MY BELLY!!!

[cachefind09]

I collected beer cans back in the late 70's and early 80's when it was such a popular hobby with many people. It sure has lost its appeal since then and probably will never be what it once was due to the aluminum can, they look so cheap compared to the steel cans and the paint doesn't look as nice on them either. My most memorable find was a rusted Stroh's cone top and my favorite series to collect was the Olde Frothingslosh. I actually had the blue and orange can which was hard to get back then. I still have all my cans in boxes stored in the attic and I probably should go check them out to see if the heat is blistering the paint.

[kansas]

I began collecting beer cans in 1976 when I was twelve years old. I had 11,000 different cans at one point, but when I moved from New Jersey to Kansas in 1998, I gave all of the cans away except for the flat tops and cone tops. I still collect flat tops and cone tops, but only if they are in fantastic condition. The value remains relatively high for good flat top and cone top cans. The flat top cans are the cans that one needed a can opener to open. Cans from the 1970's and 1980's have very little value and are not desired today.

I have attached a photo of a cone top. This is not a very valuable one, but was accessible for a photo.

Steve
Kansas