Wonder if the NJ dump find on beercanhistory could be Joe Veg collection?

[iggyks]

I hadn't read beercanhistory.com for a while and came across the following. Wonder if it could have been the Joe Veg collection, although it looks like the JV cans were left full and no mention of that in the Jersey dump story. Veg lived in NJ.
(8) "Legendary Finds: New Jersey, 1980": in the April/May 2007 BCCA magazine, Matt Menke described a group of "159" cans that became known to collectors around 1980, which contained flat tops, cones and quarts from around 1935 to the early 1950s. Most of the brands were Eastern, but there also were scattered labels from around the country. Matt heard that the cans had been assembled by a "casual collector" who sometime before 1980, watched as a large group of beer cans were left in a dump and happened to retrieve some of them. Matt wrote: "there was no word on exactly" where the dump was, except the state connected with the story was "New Jersey"; or "what circumstances might have caused" the discarding of a large, diversified collection with many unusual cans from over a 15+ year interval starting in the mid 1930s.

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[Chris E.]

Could be, but it is certainly a shame that "the casual collector" didn't have enough sense to retrieve the entire collection. No telling what else may have been in there or how many cans were lost forever.

Chris E.

[Leon]

If I remember right most of the cans were National can co cans which included the only known indoor Regal O/I from Detroit. Or am I confusing this with another Nw Jersey dump find? LEON.