What is a Bottle or Crown Cap Collection?
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A collection of unique "press-fit" tops from beverage
bottles ("crown caps").
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Twist-off caps are okay as long as they are the press-fit style
(unthreaded).
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Crowns are considered unique if:
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Top: & Rim: Metal finish,
original coloring, graphics, or text differs.
Post-bottling
text differences like "freshness dates" are not
considered.
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Bottom: Cork material or printing on the cork
(sweepstakes style)
differs. At this time I do not consider
mold numbering on a plastic
cork material to be sufficient to
make the crown unique.
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Caps are categorized by brand name, and subcategorized by beverage
name.
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Bent, deformed, or damaged caps are not excluded from the
collection.
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Caps saved for trading are not included in the collection size
count.
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How Many Crown Caps?
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Category
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Subcategory
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Qty.
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More
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Africa
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Republic of South Africa
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26
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Yes
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Rhodesia
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95
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Yes
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Zambia
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10
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Yes
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Botswana
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3
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No
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Malawi
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1
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No
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America (North)
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Canada
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2
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Yes
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USA
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22
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Yes
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America (Central & South)
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Mexico
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4
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Yes
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Asia
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China
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1
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No
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Australia & Pacific
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Australia
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3
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Yes
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Europe
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Germany
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1
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Yes
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Holland
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5
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Yes
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Other
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Blank Top
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1
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Yes
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Total Caps:
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174
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Links
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Other crown cap sites
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15
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Yes
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Trade
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Misc
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0
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Yes
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Notes
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For purposes of this web site, bottle caps have been categorized by
bottler location.
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This web presentation of my bottle caps is created with pictures like you
see above.
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Crown cap details are displayed under the picture:
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Text on the cap face is first, preceeded by the label
"Top:". A comma is
inserted in the
text for every line break.
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Text on the rim is next, if present, and is labelled with
"Rim:". Often the rim
contains a
graphic of a crown with a letter designation, probably a crown maker
or bottler logo. These graphics are represented with curly
braces, or "{R}" for
example, and all
other text is presented relative to this symbol.
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Printing on the cork, or cork composition is noted with
"Bottom:". Cork
composition is listed only
if it is not the standard white foam plastic. Other cork
types
are "Cork", and,
"Plastic", and
"Cork/Plastic".
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I have a lot of bottle caps in my collection and I may not know how to
categorize them
by country as I do not remember where I found them,
or do not know where the bottler
is located. IF YOU CAN HELP ME
HERE, PLEASE DO SO!
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If I don't know where a crown is "officially" from, it will
list where it was found.
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Each cap picture is formatted as a 72bpi GIF file, 100x100 pixels. The
picture files range
from 8 to 10KB each. No more than 48 pictures
are placed on a single page, to help
break up the download times,
but, you may have to be patient for all the pictures to
load on some
of the pages.
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You may download these crown cap pictures for your own personal use,
however,
as a courtesy to me for using pictures that took me a long
time to scan and format,
I do ask that you give me credit where it
is due, and, if used on the internet, provide
a link back to my
pages.
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