A can wrap can make it easier to insert and remove a rusty can from a can tote compartment (or even a wine or beer box), particularly in cases where there's more pronounced rust on the body, thus creating more friction with the surrounding cardboard walls than, say, a higher grade can (not necessari...

Hey, Jim,

I sent you a PM. I'll check back in a day or so. Hope all is well.

Thanks in advance.

cg

I have several questions on this. Can someone kindly explain this whole mess?! My understanding is that the brewer paid no tax to the federal government on beer sold outside the US. So any such cans or bottles would have carried the WF statement, both before and after the war. I'm unclear, however, ...

You have an OD flat top can with the usual WF statement, and there's all these unfilled cans left over after the war order was dropped, but the cans are already rolled, and they want to fill the cans for civilian consumption, so they solve the problem by declaring the contents tax paid by printing a...

What is the general consensus as to why the Miller OD label design is so different than the non-OD? Why would they do that?

Then again, why not? It would be ironic if the standard label ever turned up or even the converse example wherein a non-OD version of the OD label was found.

A number of years back, there was a find of some Grain Belt OD cones (I think they were cones) in Europe. I thought this was in the last 10-12 years, and that it was unknown until that find. Also, there was the Miller OD flat that turned up and then one or two more trickled in, with the particular o...

We all know that there are a few tax paid OD brands, including the Fort Pitt crowntainer (both IRTP and WF), the Regal Pale and the Sicks Select OI (both IRTP and WF). There may be a few others pictured in the USBC1 or that have since been found. Regardless, their number is dwarfed by the WF example...

Interesting. Thanks, guys!

Hey, Kevin, I'd forgotten all about that Kent story. Would be memorable to find some of the beers. Looks like they certainly could have made it somewhere into TN then.

Thanks, guys. Yeah, Al, you raise a good point with beer's popularity waxing following the war, and ale waning due to the GI's taste preference and/or their exposure to beer. Wasn't Red Cap Ale one of the few (only?) ale brands sold in OD cans? I thought ale was traditionally higher alcohol content,...

Right, so in the case of the Krueger Ales (let's say that we're limiting the discussion to IRTP, including OIs), why do we never hear about the beers being dumped in the Deep South? When it's found, it's always the ales. I'm not saying that the beers haven't been found, maybe so, but I don't recall ...

You need to go to the state archives. They have it.

I guess I'm being a tad lazy here, but I don't have my book handy. If my memory serves me even modestly, it was the ale that was test marketed in Richmond. But what about the beer? 1. Did they sell both at the same time for the test, or did the beer arrive later in the Richmond market, following the...

Has anyone found any Krueger Beers in the Deep South? Ales have been found, yes, and ads may corroborate that the beer variety was sold, but curious if anyone has dumped any or had any indoor finds. If not, it seems a bit odd given that Ale was more common in the northeast at that time, gradually lo...

Has anyone found an Krueger Beers in the Deep South?

There were also Falstaff cones, Champagne Velvet cones and 76 Ale cones, I think? Yes, Leon, I believe the dump across the street was a lot of scattered bottles and later cans. The topography was very different, with thick foliage in places and lots of piles of dirt, etc., making searching annoying....

It is also possible that a given brand may have been brought into the state (whatever state in question) by residents who lived close to a neighboring state where it was sold, or perhaps more widely sold -- similar to the dry county scenario. Also, I have never heard of Krueger Beers being found dow...

" ... Dr. Livingston, I presume ? ..."

Hey, Hi Jax and company. Sounds like you guys had a terrific day. The old adage about persistence certainly delivers again. Nothing but hay fever here in the Mid-Atlantic [ sigh ...] Phil, did you guys by any chance find any Florida Bush cans (can't recall year Miami opened/overlapped with Tampa)? I...

If I couldn't make arrangements to see the can in person, I doubt I would enter into such a paramount proposition, particularly a price of such expected magnitude. This is one advantage of private-in-person sales. Yes, easier said than done, but just saying ... Of course, there have been art forgeri...

I remember a Rustlings story (an RBer, anyway) wherein one of those was found, sometime back ... hmm ... maybe 2003-2005ish, maybe even a little later? ... something like that. It was a Texas member, maybe Tom I and company? As I recall, it was northern Oklahoma, and condition was kind of ghost like...

Nothing like the style of the Oldstyle!

It's always tricky for me to find that one in the book because I'm always looking under 'Old Style', different brand, duh!

They weren't thinking, and perhaps, it was some former owner of the can whose responsible for the handiwork, and the seller was just trying to jettison it. But I concur. It's a real shame when people have to dork around with cans. Sheesh! Just leave them alone, and all will be better for it. In my o...

Hey, Cap-Sealed, great icon-logo! The White Horse cone top has to be the all time classic ... something about the chess piece and colors. Truly a label no one will forget in a hurry.

Hey, Canaddict, is Phil the 'Phil' as in HiJax? Which Keith?

I assume, given the year you started collecting, that you are not the Scott from Alabama, correct?

As others have said, certain colors will fade if the water is too hot. Red will fade, Green/blues can fade, too, turning from one to the other ... something like that. Bottom line: while hot water can expedite the cleaning time, and some may prefer such a stratagem to get quick feedback (test for ec...

Sounds like you guys had a fun trip. Impressive find. I don't see to many finds with quarts, but I know you've found them a number of times over the years, certainly. I wonder how much underlap timewise there was between the two variants that would make it reasonable to find both in the same locatio...

OK, it's time to get out of the miserable city. Looking for a roommate for the Western States Show. I don't snore, and I don't smoke, but I don't care if you do smoke (snoring, ah ... no). It's only a few days, right. PM me or respond here if interested. I haven't booked a room yet. Thought I'd wait...

Are there dates for 2016 for Spring Thaw so that I can try and make sure the shows don't happen at the same time in '16? Also, if by some miracle I could move the Western States show by one week in either direction for 2015, would it matter to anyone? Would anyone go to two different shows on two c...

And don't forget the most unexepected label to come out of that dump (drum role, please) ... Stag! Not a sought after can but certainly not anticipated. I think we only found one. It was a flat, natch.

Jay, were all the cans across the road (the other dump) 12 oz? Any 16 ouncers over there?

There used to be a product called Zanfel, made by an Illinois company. I don't know if it's still around, but you'd sometimes see it sold in pharmacies. It came in a small, toothpaste size tube. It's expensive, but not as much as a trip out west. This stuff is nothing short of miraculous. A little g...