ARE THERE ANY MEGA-COLLECTORS LEFT?

[clevelandcanman11389]

IF NOT ARE THE DAYS OF SPENDING 5,000 PLUS FOR A CAN OVER?

[Senator Seebs]

NOpe

[OctoberAle]

I don't know, but there are certainly collectors willing and able to spend mega-amounts for super rarities. From where I sit I've seen a 20,000+ can and a 30,000+ can change hands in the last week.
My not-so-valuable opinion is that there is pent up demand for good cans among a number of collectors right now.
Over the last 8 years we've been through the Great Recession, and it's accompanying widespread sell off. Followed by the amassing, and now disassembling of one of the greatest single collections ever.
I have to say it's heartening to see a lot of people step up and claim great cans.

[menke]

There are ongrade, best-of sorts of megacollections, and then there are equally large but deeper and wider collections that are...wait for it...offgrade. How many 10,000-plus on and offgrade can collections are there out there? Guys who collect almost everything, who never specialized to keep the pursuit sane. Guys who can point to even more super-rare and unique cans on their shelves than the wealthiest dealer customers.

I can think of a few.

[OctoberAle]

I think you could spend a long time looking for an off grade collection that is deeper and wider than what Mike, and later Gene, put together.
Did you ever see it? Good God, the row upon row of basic Budweiser variations was enough to stagger even the most hard-core minutiae
enthusiast! Not to mention the Schlitz section… Mike swallowed up chunks of Ed Ackerman's collection, who certainly was the type of collector
you describe.
There are plenty of collections that appear Mega to me, but I'm not sure there are any mega-collectors like Mike or Gene ready to step up and take the wheel.
My opinion is that the disbursement of these cans is a shot in the arm for the hobby right now, injecting some much needed energy and enthusiasm amongst a number of collectors.

[Sea Monkey]

What ever happened to Mike's website that he was putting together? Did Gene get that too? Did he do anything with it? Is it just dead?

[OctoberAle]

Gene did get it. I saw it flicker for a time, then nothing. I don't know if it's coming back. I wish it would.

[Conehead]

Yea, I was under the impression that Gene was going to try and keep it going also. I imagine it was just too much of a hassle.

That was Mike's baby and a what a massive undertaking it was.

[Matt Menghini]

How about a poll of our members to get a feel for this? Something like: how many flats, cones, crowns, quarts, 16 oz, tabs etc do you have? Might be interesting to see the results.

[Rand]

355 flats

[Rockbob]

1200 straight steel tabs and 300 or so flats and cones that I've dumped. Oh, and around 100 micros that I've drank or drunk or........

[MarkB]

I have about 2,000 cans, 2/3d of which are flats. MarkB

[ronsmall]

[Sea Monkey]

Flat s= 549 (not counting traders)
Cones = 337 (166 of them Quarts)
Crowntainers = 103
Trays = 150
Signs = 44 (9 large)

[aussieguinnessman]

400+ Guinness Cans

[RUSH2112]

7,000 Tough Tabs, Flats,& Cones All USA

[pinnacle-project]

About 500 flats and 70 cones. Most of my cans are off grade.

[Monster]

200 +/- shiny tabs
200 +/- rusty cans
200 +/- really-rusty cans
100 +/- really-really-rusty cans
&
2 hound dogs (these are for trade or sale, cheap. I'm open to ANY reasonable offers...any takers?)

[sgramling]

Office:
800 pre 1980 tabs
500 recent tabs (currently in boxes)
750 flats
150 cones
40 quarts

Home:
7 cans in the dining room (my max allowed)

[JohnLi67]

333 Flats
127 Tabs
20 Cones / Crowns

All on-grade

480 total cans - shooting for 500 by end of year.

Isn't Canventory nice

[Conehead]

1397 12 ounce Cones (LP's, HP's, Bulbs, J's
261 Quarts
246 Crowntainers
70 Soda Cones
17 International Cones
3 16 ounce Cones

1994 Total Cone Tops

Canvention may be the place I break the 2000 cone barrier!

[bantam10]

little over 3 years ago I had just over 3,000. I'm going to recount tomorrow after dumping.

[henry porter]

125 tabs
31 flats
2 cones
0 crowntainers

[Wheaton]

62 Michigan cans, all sizes and lid types
100 14oz cans (or thereabouts), all-inclusive with tabs/flats and steel/aluminum

I try my level best to keep my specialties as underwhelming as possible, sort of the opposite of megacollector. I prefer to think of myself as a nanocollector.

[JAL]

A stones throw from hitting the 3,000 mark on U.S. 10-12 oz straight steel cans (strictly print variations). I'm in the process of cataloging my 10=12 oz flats which is around 1,800 (which includes 250 or so OI cans).

If there are still collectors whom "collect it all", 10K would be very obtainable... space would not.

JAL

[ritarust]

Last count 4000+ flats, cones, and crowns

[BeerCanRich99]

Sounds like the original question was about collectors of expensive cans, IE: $5000+ per can.
Take away 3 zeros and count me in!
Now most folks are talking about size (of collection).

So here's where I'm at roughly.

6-10 ounce: 95
12 oz: 5300
14 oz: 15
16 oz: 690
24+ oz: 254
Foreign: 95

Total: 6439 give or take

Rich

[OhioCanGuy]

If we're talking sheer volume here, this conversation wouldn't be complete without a mention of Jeff Lebo. What's he up to? Like 80k cans?

[Beamer]

I have 23 Billy Beer cans and some crummy Indiana cans.

[Flat_Top]

331 Michigan cans and shrinking