The Rusty Bunch

Great find! I had forgotten about that. Which Nor Cal show did you take them to? I was at the 2005 Brookdale Lodge show, which was where the Rainier feeding frenzy occurred. I don't recall seeing them there.

Also, you're in Indiana now?

My most appropriate can for the day.

whitealtesziptopguy wrote: Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:09 pm $60k

You pretty much nailed that, whitealtesziptopguy.

$51,500 hammer - I thought it would go higher. Kinda feel like it should have gone higher. By comparison, it makes many other high climbers seem insane - a far superior can to others in this price strata.

The Oertels crown came with the ice block piece as a bonus gift. It's unused. The Hoosier is a little tarnished. The window for getting a better one seems closed at the moment.

Great can Marc!

Old Fehr's Post.

https://www.therustybunch.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=402617&hilit=FEHR%27S+DRAFT#p402617


Good info here, thanks. Not sure I recall reading this - but again, I think the only other time I saw the can, it was a pull tab version, and I wasn't terribly interested. I missed the ...

Oh, and I also picked up this can which is outside of my current collecting parameters. I had one for many years, and always regretted selling it.
I thought I would have a hard time replacing it in today's auction-centric market, but here's a nice one from Canvention. :lol:
I paid about 1/8 of what ...

Also, this may have been the one I saw years ago... my memory is fuzzy on this can. If it has a tab top, that may be why I did not go for it at the time.
It's also possible that I'm imagining the whole thing, but it rings a distant bell.

Thanks for posting that! I'll assume this is the nicer one I heard about. Is it a flat top? It looks like a possible new top in the pics, or a tab or aluminum top.

On the Fehr's can - there are 4 Cincinnati cans listed as pull tabs in the book, but this design is different from any of them. It's also different from any of the USBC flat tops. It's the only Fehr's can that states DRAFT BREWED BEER. The other flat and pull top cans state DRAUGHT BEER. Here is a ...

I also picked up this oddball Fehr's - I think I've seen it once before. Frank Fehr Brewing Cincinnati. This can looks like it lay full for a few decades in an attic or crawl space. Looks to be an original flat top with the beer leaking out over time.
Also grabbed an Oertels ice block ad piece. The ...

Canvention had more good cans available than I expected. A pretty decent showing overall. I was happy to finally add the Drewrys Malt Liquor cans to my collection. I also picked up a very clean Oertels 92 flat - (second picture, can on the left). I took it home thinking it an upgrade, but happily it ...

Boy, I had some memorable visits to his house. I always enjoyed talking to him, and got a few great cans from him over the years. Was really eye opening when he landed those big Burgers some years back. I was so impressed.

These cans were found circa 1975 in Union Station in downtown Indianapolis. My grandfather used to work there. It was closed to the public at the time, but he was able to talk a maintenance guy into retrieving some cans for us from somewhere inside the building. I have a feeling it was full of cans ...

Well, I couldn't be happier with this acquisition. To my mind, one of the better crowntainers to appear in any recent auction. I really didn't think I had a shot at it. This seems a very unlikely can for me to reel in given the current skewed/hyperventilating/overheated/irrational/choose your ...

Four favorite Indiana cones. The Schmidt's, while fairly common, is the Clay Tichelar can, and about the best I've seen. I'm looking to add the occasional clean Indiana cone top. If you have one to sell, shoot me a pic.

Four favorite crowntainers. I'm still looking to add the occasional clean crowntainer. If you have one to sell and want to skip the auction queue, shoot me a pic.

Four favorite flats.

And here is the discussion from 2020 around a recently found Autocrat. A far cry better than the touted "best known" example in Sunday's auction.
How soon we forget...

http://www.therustybunch.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=47959&p=408442&hilit=Autocrat#p408442

Here is Dan Baker's photograph of ...

The Cabin Fever Autocrat looks to be this one: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=49785&p=421743&hili ... at#p421743

Here is the Autocrat that was at the Cabin Fever Reliever in 2014.

I don't know about the auction can, but an Autocrat in similar condition was brought to the Cabin Fever show in 2014. It too looked like a crawl space can. It can be seen in the galleries section of the Beer Cans Plus site. I think it could have been had for 5k if I remember correctly?

Looks great! I didn't realize it was that big.

I would say Good Luck trying to find significant crowntainers at shows in the current environment. Outside of the initial tier of relatively easy ones, they are not available. But Wow on the photo! I'm guessing that to be the decades old Helmbold haul? :smt007

And if anyone wants to sell a tough ...

Do you still have these? I could use clean examples of all variants.

This is a great example of what's wrong with the market the past year or so. Three years ago, the first two were each worth at least twice as much as any of the other four. Call me old-fashioned, but I look at that group and see maybe $85K.

Marc


85k is exactly the amount I came up with ...

Wasn't the Fox DeLuxe can found in quantity in recent years? Isn't that the can Dan Baker had in totes for years? It took a long time to sell them in the 2k range. Or am I wrong about this?


Mine is better than the auction can, has the original bottom, still carries the BCP $1,800 price tag ...

Wasn't the Fox DeLuxe can found in quantity in recent years? Isn't that the can Dan Baker had in totes for years? It took a long time to sell them in the 2k range. Or am I wrong about this?

I managed to be the underbidder on a can; that's a moral victory in this day and age . . .


Me too. Underbidder on Berghoff Ale. I refused to go any higher. Bid more than I thought it was worth. Shouldn't have participated in hindsight.
I've had the can twice before.

I shouldn't have ...