Looking For

One of the best aspects of collecting OC/OC is that there is always something new showing up. Upon learning of the Propaganda "Ca-bottle", I am once more searching for a can to complete the brewed and canned within the country aspect of my collecting frenzy.

I am still on the prowl for plenty of other cans too. First of all, for the countries that do not have a brewery canning beer, I am still looking for cans that are specific imports such as the Tuborg shown below made for Andorra and the can with the Kingdom of Libya's lid stamp. There are rumors that there was an Eagle can made for Tajikistan Airways which, if true, I would very much want. I am always trying to find the first can brewed and canned within a country or, if older, the first beer can made expressly for sale within a country.

The pictures below are from a variety of sources, so please excuse the variations in quality. Some of these pictures were taken by Harold Hilton and many thanks are due him for showing us all what we may be missing. On the LISTS page of this site you can download my collection listing which includes a "Wanted" tab that indicates many of the cans I am looking for.

This Smalta can lists an importer

in Monserrat ... which is a place I need to have a can respresent!

This Tuborg is the only one know to have a bottom

stamp for import into Andorra.

This straight steel "33" from Nigeria may be the

first can brewed and canned in Nigeria.

This Castle was briefly canned in Rhodesia.

I do not collect many of the "set", commemorative, or special offer cans mainly because of limited room to display. However, my graphic senses get the best of me sometimes and I end up looking far and wide for the one missing can to complete a set I like too much. This seems to happen mostly with Japanese cans. There is a set I have been trying to complete for almost a decade now: the "Kirin Favored Views". Below is a link to a page about these cans with pictures of each of the nine cans I now have. It also shows a picture of a tenth can that I am looking for. I do not know if there are more than ten, but any information you might have would be greatly welcomed.

Kirin "Favored Views"

Not every can I am looking for is necessarily rare, quite a few times the can is common but the folks who have them to trade just don't think anyone is interested and therefore don't bring them to shows, post them on websites, or auction them on Ebay. It is dificult to get pictures of such cans before I find them for the shelves.

thoughtful? email me at m44rodgers@earthlink.net