Unloading Beer Can Collection

[Magnew]

I started collecting beer cans in around 1974. Collected avidly for several years and then quit. My collection (about 400 cans?) has been hanging on the walls of my parents' basement ever since. Now my dad is converting the shelves to display his duck call collection. My mom doesn't want the cans in her basement and I don't want them at all.

I'm looking for a best offer from someone in the St. Louis, MO area to take the whole collection.

[chazwicke]

What do you have in the collection? Any flats? Are most of them cans that you drank? Condition?

[Magnew]

Many are beers that my dad drank. I was in elementary school. But I'm sure I had a sip of all of them. Most are, therefore in excellent condition. These are cans from all over the country and some international. As I was only collecting in the late 70's there are an interesting assortment of old local breweries from the time when the brewery consolidation was beginning.

I have several flat tops also in good condition. It's been a long time since I really looked at the collection, but I know there are several Bush and Bud flats of different label designs. Some Coors and maybe Schlitz, Falstaff, Hamms among others. I don't remember exactly. I also have a couple of conetops that were not in such great condition, a falstaff and a Goetz Country Club. Maybe one more cone top. Also several from the time when tab tops were just begin introduced.

[Magnew]

My dad tells me there are more like 500-700 cans.

[chazwicke]

Try Ebay. Just be sure the buyer pays shipping. I have an old collection that one of my employees gave me. It belonged to her deceased father. Nothing really rare in it and it is in boxes in my attic. I'm thinking there is about 300. Some tougher foreign cans. I sold my first collection of 4,000. in 1980. I now have several hundred but they are only DC and Virgina cans. I specialize in DC, Virginia, Maine, Greene King breweriana. I am considering even narrowing it down more.

[keelkemper]

Chazwicke.....i see you have updated your collecting interest to include items from Maine brewerys.....thats great....of course maine had virtually no old breweriana stuff....but it is more than making up for it, in craft brews.....anything you need or want that i can possibly supply?.....

[chazwicke]

I have been collecting it for a while. I think the Maine stuff and the Greene King stuff will be the first to go. I have plenty of coasters, labels and tap handles from Maine. I've got some books too like Will Andersons. Other miscellanious Maine stuff. been to many of the breweries up there as well..