Collector's Digest to Beer Cans [Paperback]

L-W Publishers (Editor)

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Originally published by Thomas Toepfer in 1976, this has been updated with modern values. Over 2,500 pop tops, flat tops, cone tops, and others are sorted, detailed, and photographed in full color. Detailed descriptions regarding variations, rarity, condition, and manufacturer is included for all items. For the benefit of novice beer can collectors, a glossary of beer can collecting terms is included for good measure. 1995 VALUES -- Book Description

Product Details

• Paperback: 157 pages
• Publisher: L W Publishing & Book Sales (July 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891452303
• ISBN-13: 978-0891452300
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,402,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #68 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Antiques & Collectibles > Bottles

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Handy Guide For Beer Can Hunters, June 1, 2000

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Irvin Goodman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Collector's Digest to Beer Cans (Paperback)

This 157 page, softbound 5 x 8" book is handy to keep with you as you look for beer cans to add to your collection. There are nearly 6,000 full color pictures in this book and thousands more listed ! It covers the period 1932 to 1975. A glossary of terms is provided, and information about can condition. It includes half gallon cans, cone tops, and new finds. Every beer can collector will find this a great reference to keep handy. Values are 1995.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Useful Price Guide: Cone Tops, Flats, & Pull Tab Beer Cans, July 15, 2001

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Mike Mealoy (Rochester Hills, MI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collector's Digest to Beer Cans (Paperback)

This edition was an appreciated update to the previous edition. This is the 3rd edition that I have purchased. This edition includes 1995 updated prices to the previous version of the book which listed beer cans produced through 1975. It also includes a section with pictures and prices of 236 interesting pull tab cans produced from 1975 to at least 1982. This book is a good pictorial display and reference price guide of some 8300 beer cans including 7276 12 oz flat top & pull tab cans, 514 16 oz cans, 413 12 oz cone tops, and 72 7,8,&10 cans. This book also has price listings without pictures for an additional 400 or so 12 oz cone tops, 145 quart cones, 3 16 oz cones, 27 gallons, & one 1/2 gallon. This is an excellent reference book. I highly recommend it. I would like to see a future edition with more of the 12 oz cones pictured. I eagerly await the next edition.

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Well, the pictures are certainly nice!, October 16, 2000

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David A. Collins (Iowa City, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Collector's Digest to Beer Cans (Paperback)

This book would have benefitted hugely from a bit of competent editing by someone possessed of a nodding familiarity with English grammar and usage, and perhaps an eye for layout; the text meant to accompany the photographs may be related to them only with difficulty. Overall, the Collector's Digest to Beer Cans exudes the cobbled-together aura of earnest, well-meaning, but ultimately amateurish production. The photographs themselves are nicely executed, though perhaps smaller than utility would dictate. The array of cans represented pictorally and, in a later section, textually, is fairly extensive, though not comprehensive by any means. Certainly, this is a very useful book for the price; one finds, though, that it merely whets the appetite for more thoroughgoing references.