Old beer can collection

[Trigger518]

Here's some old beer cans my grandfather left to me, anybody recognize any? Pretty neat to look at.

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[philoshop]

Pretty cool collection, and I recognize most of 'em.

[Trigger518]

I have a couple that would get me kicked out of the forum I believe from Germany.

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[Pygmy]

Very cool, Trigger...I have personally emptied examples of most of the Genny cans you showed over the last 50 years or so..

[Trigger518]

I was born in the wrong generation that's all there is to it lol.

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[ny hunter]

very nice collection...

[Arcade Hunter]

9 hours ago, Pygmy said:

Very cool, Trigger...I have personally emptied examples of most of the Genny cans you showed over the last 50 years or so..

Me too... Ive seen all the Genny cans!

[grampy]

Very cool collection and bar display! Looks like just the place to sit, relax and sip a few. And I too remember quite a few of those! Brings me back to another time and place for sure. Topic for another thread...............

[Nomad]

Sure I had most of them in my collection back in the day . Had several hundred, got rid of most as it became to hard to keep up with all the new ones, I can't imagine trying to collect today with all the craft beers.

I keep my Genny collection for awhile  , which was even larger then your Grand dads, but gave that to a Genny fan at work . Keep some , the first Harley bike week can,a couple rare Genny cans, Billy , some with hunting themes .

[landtracdeerhunter]

Do you have Buffalo New York Becks beer cans? 

[GreeneHunter]

Any " Billy Beer "  cans there ?

[Trigger518]

Idk I would have to look, at work now.

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[Pygmy]

24 minutes ago, GreeneHunter said:

Any " Billy Beer "  cans there ?

I just happen to have three cans right beside my computer as I type this..An old "removable pop top" Genny Red Eye, a Narragansett Lager ( emptied a bunch of those in Newport, RI when I was in the Navy) and a Billy Beer....

[philoshop]

An older friend of mine gave me a six pack of unopened Billy beer cans before he passed away several years ago. I somehow lost the six pack in all the moves since then.

[Pygmy]

36 minutes ago, philoshop said:

An older friend of mine gave me a six pack of unopened Billy beer cans before he passed away several years ago. I somehow lost the six pack in all the moves since then.

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BUMMER  !!.......I don't know what an unopened six pack is worth, but a few years ago I saw an unopened case of Billy Beer for sale for several hundred dollars.

The top is not popped on my can, but whomever put it aside poked two small holes in the bottom, so it is empty.

It  was brewed and packed by Falls City Brewing Co., Louisville, KY.

 

[hunter49]

  That's all my dad ever drank was Genny beer, I could have had one hell of a collection but it would have been all the same bottles/cans!  lol

[Nomad]

Billy beer cans open and unopened are far from rare, and last I knew worth next to nothing, as everyone saved them, not just collectors .

Every so,often someone who is not into collecting comes across some and tries to sell them for prices far above market rates .

There has been a ton of changes to Genny cans over the years , I had 15 or so different Genny light cans, and I stopped many years ago .....

But I see the humor .

 

 

Billy Beer cans – whether opened or unopened – are not rare by any means. They're your basic novelty beer cans, produced and saved in great quantity with supply far outstripping demand. That, however, doesn't mean that they don't possess any value. A collector in need of a Billy Beer can today may pay anywhere from 25 cents to $10 for a specimen, depending on condition. 

Occasionally at auction, Billy Beer cans have been known to bring out the beast in some bidders who still subscribe to the urban legend that they're truly bidding on something rare. 

Edited January 24, 2017 by Larry302

[philoshop]

He had several cases Pygmy, and he gave many six packs to his friends when he was diagnosed with cancer. We even drank a couple of those cases one weekend and it tasted just like Genny to me. ;-)

[Trigger518]

I have a bottle of beer with a nude woman on the front I'd imagine it must b worth something I'd post it but I would probly get the boot.

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[Nomad]

OH and beer can collectors don't want full cans as the weight is to great. I had  a small collection , but it still was a few hundred cans hanging on my wall.

We do want the top " unopened " though, which is why when we buy them full we open them from the bottom . I suppose folks that just want an old can for some reason or another many like a full one .

Trigger, if you got a Playmate malt liquor can, you have a valuable one ! Playboy sued  them in '66 I believe and they had to,stop making the can, it's one of the most sought after to,this day .

Edited January 24, 2017 by Larry302

[Trigger518]

I wish I could post a pic, and this is a glass bottle

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[Nomad]

You got me going now. Here is what I saved from my collection .

Many are air cans, never filled with beer , but with a complete top and bottom.  Each year Iron City made a Steelers can, I gave all away to Steelers fans but this '79 air can .

[Trigger518]

Very cool I'll have to put up some better pics later of the more unique cans of mine

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[turkeyfeathers]

I stole the image but have an unopened sixer of this in my folks basement.


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[Trigger518]

I tried researching the bottle with the nude woman on it to find out more about it typed beef bottles with nude woman on theminto Google , well I should've known better

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