I'll take Saturday 11:00 to noon. I love the chaos of last-minute raffle ticket sales.

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Hey Matt and y'all! None of the companies that I've been with have owned a GPR unit, but when I've needed it for a project, we sub-contracted the work to other firms. However, I think that a unit like the one shown could probably be rented and taken for a test run in looking for buried cans. Ideally...

Unfortunately, none of us were permitted to take copies of the surveillance videos. Illinois law thing, I guess.

As some are already aware, there were cans stolen from at least three people at the Belleville show on Saturday, including me. The cans looked a lot like the examples shown here. A red Aristocrat flat top from Tivoli was also stolen, but unfortunately, I don't have an example of that can handy to ph...

Michael, I sent a PM about the Peerless, Bub’s, and Edelweiss cans, thanks -John

It's one of my favorite can designs. The first time I dug a woodgrain Hyde Park was the late 1970s near Piedmont, MO. I brought home two, but I didn't know what they were because they were dirty and pretty rusted. I could sure see the woodgrain though! I hadn't yet discovered oxalic, so Naval Jelly ...

I guess it was worthwhile, if for no other reason than I may have saved it from being tossed in the dumpster....

I'll take 'em. I'll put the check in the mail tomorrow or Wednesday.

Thanks, John

I’ll be there Wednesday through Sunday.

I’ll take Friday 11 to noon.

bodean, do you know about the BCCA Missouri Ozarks Chapter? There is a show and picnic at Mike and Michele Fritz place next weekend July 22. Near Elkland, not too far north of Springfield. I'll be there.

I ended up getting a few boxes of dumpers from the late Allen Riese. Apparently he found them near his home in Theodosia years ago, in the Bull Shoals Lake area. None had been cleaned, including this one. So I got to soak it in oxalic to see how it might do. I suppose that's pretty close to digging ...

For many years I've debated that a true Canadian Ace zip top from Chicago does not exist. I needed to see a dumper to believe it. Here it is, found in southern Missouri. Not the first time I've had to eat a bite of crow.

Thank for posting this Keith!

Dang, that Centlivre is a thing of beauty, not to mention the "no banner" Prager. I don't think that Santa is going to be able to help me here, but at least I have the joy of seeing a couple nice specimens.

If Tom and Billy are willing to share any news, I'll be more than glad to post an update!

Awesome, I’ll put him in touch with you. His name is Billy. (No, not Carter)

There is some one here in my area who has a painted toleware cone top, and he is wanting some help getting the over paint off. I am aware of the nice tutorials here, but he would rather have some one do it for him, either for a reasonable fee or another can in trade. He usually has some nice stuff. ...

Thank you for posting this Matt.

Sure makes me wanna go digging.

Thank you Scott, and thanks everyone for being so kind with your words. SO glad that most of you were drunk! As Frank Zappa so memorably put it:

"We didn't have no dope or LSD, But a coupla quarts a beer
Would fix it so the intonation, Would not offend yer ear"

Nice.

Well rat piss, Marion and I have it too. Fully vaccinated and boosted, so not too worried about us. Just bad cold symptoms so far. A bit worried about the older folks though. Everyone spent a lot of time in each other's faces having fun, so I fear that we may be at the tip of an illness-iceberg.

Love the fan tab! I found one in about that condition in the Ozarks in the late 1980s. The Lewandowski Bros talked me out of it in a trade many moons ago. Where it went when they sold out is a mystery, but it probably belongs to one of the fine gentlemen listed in JohnnyAho's post!

Whoops, yep, I had intended to type Lone Star and not sure how Pearl came out instead!

Thank you for the history lesson. I have good knowledge of Stag up through the closing of the Belleville plant, but after that, not so much. I suspect that this a common can that I had just been overlooking.

With so many of you being so much smarter than me, who can provide an explanation for a Stag can brewed in San Antonio by Pearl? Post-Heileman but pre-Miller ownership? It is a ring tab, so pre-stay tab era.

#4 is still here, but I was only able to sneak in one (failed) dumping trip this past season, an all-time low. Next season WILL be better! I can report that #12 Gary Vance is also still around. My brothers Rick and Kevin were with him a few weeks ago at a petroliana show. Gary mostly collects oil in...

I wouldn’t mind swapping something for those, if available.

Isn’t that a great feeling? I was recently able to re-acquire a 7-11 flat top that I dug in the early 1990’s. A nice homecoming, so I can relate!

Fantastic, thank you Mark!