Previously Unknown Cooks Cone Transition Can

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Previously Unknown Cooks Cone Transition Can

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Always exciting when Art LaComb says to me at Canvention "you are not going to believe this cone I have". So Art says to me that he has a Cooks cone that looks like none of the known cans. I'm having a hard time with that, but sure enough upon inspection we do indeed have a previously unknown can here. This can is a transition can from the Cherokee versions to the Robert E Lee versions. In the photos that follow, the two cans on the left are the Cherokee cans, and the two cans on the right are the Robert E Lee cans. The can in the middle is the "new" can.

How is it different?

1. On the label, the black outlining is thicker that on the other cans. It it way thicker than the black outlining on the Robert E Lee cans.

2. There is no "R" trademark after "Goldblume" like there is on the other Robert E Lee cans.

3. There is a black horizontal line at the top and the bottom. No such line on the other Robert E Lee cans. There are such lines on the other Cherokee cans.

4. Left and right of the seam, there are white bands. There are no white bands on the other Robert E Lee cans. There are white bands on the Cherokee cans.

5. There is a union label at the top of the white band left of seam. None of the other cans have this. The Cherokee cans do say "union Made" but do not have the union label.

6. Left white band says: "Brewed and packaged by F.W. Cook Company, Inc. Evansville, Indiana." The Cherokee cans do not say that. The Robert E Lee cans do say that but with the "Brewed and packaged by" centered above the rest of the text, not on the left. Also the Robert E Lee cans say "Est. 1853" left of label and this one does not.

7. In the right white band it says: "Contents 12 fluid ounces". That is similar to what the Robert E Lee cans in their right gold bands.

8. It has a Crown canning company mark right of the seam. The Robert E. Lee cans are Continental cans. The Cherokee cans are both "Crown" cans.

So there you go. Now that is what you call a "transition can" if there ever was one! Thanks again to Art to noticing all of that.

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Very nice. Was there a suspicion that a transition can should exist, or is it a complete surprise?

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Total surprise.
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All the better then. Congratulations, and thanks for taking time away from the festivities to share it here.

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Thanks for sharing, I've never seen one before.
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