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The illusion of having a can on the shelves for each country that brews and cans its own beer has been disspelled, as now there is a Red Rooster can made in Palau that I need.
 
One of the best aspects of collecting OC/OC is that there is always something new showing up that no one has yet.  I suspect that soon there will be a collector who has a can brewed and canned in Tajikistan, Palau, and Kenya though, so I know the illusion of completeness is transitory.
 
I am still on the prowl for plenty of cans.  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 a 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 sell with in 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 list which includes a "Wanted" tab which lists many of the cans I am looking for.

This Smalta can lists an importer
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in Monserrat ... which is a place I need to have can respresent!

This Tuborg is the only one know to have a bottom
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stamp for import into Andorra.

This straight steel "33" from Nigeria may be the
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first can brewed and canned in Nigeria.

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This Castle was briefly canned in Rhodesia.

This Windhoek flat may be the first from
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Southwest Africa.

I do not collect many of the "set" 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 am trying to complete at the moment: 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.   The hard part is getting pictures of such cans before I find them for the shelves.

thoughtful? email me at m44rodgers@earthlink.net