"Highlights" of my collection.

[Robby Raccoon]

Beers-- I'm a prohibitionist, so it's interesting that I love beer bottles.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

NuGrape from Goodman.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

My issue is I can't keep my hands stable. So, essentially, not all lines are straight.
Whilst doing all of these, I noticed things about embossing I hadn't before-- about how it was done by the engraver. You could see his style and character put in.
I need lots of practice, but I'll get there.

 

[hemihampton]

I see alot of people do that in White but the Gold looks good also. Thats the one thing I don't like about embossed bottles, they are hard to read or photograph, which is why when I started collecting beer bottles I only collected paper label bottles with color & cool graphics on the bottles & why I have about 600 of those, 300 from Michigan. Then later started collecting Michigan embossed bottles. LEON.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

I had no white. Hah hah.
Sadly they are indeed hard to see/picture without highlighting; so, if you can, collecting colored-graphic cans and bottles is an excellent but costly way to build a collection-- I know how paper labels of desired age can go pretty high compared to their embossed counterparts.
I always wondered what got you into cans. Thanks for telling me!

 

[hemihampton]

I got into beer cans way back inthe 1970's around 1974. Back then it was the new Fade & thing to do. Lots of people doing it then. After I got all the Michigan cans the only thing left was to get the bottles, first the paper labels & then embossed. LEON. P.S. Most of the expensive paper label beers are the pre prohibition ones. Those can get into the hundreds while the more common 1930's & up labels can average $10-$20 bucks.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

Ever think about sending one of each out for a temporary display at a very large show?

 

[hemihampton]

NO, I never have thought about that.

 

[Robby Raccoon]

I'm sure it's one of the, if not the, nicest collection of Michigan cans and paper labels around.

 

[Bottleworm]

How long did it take to highlight a single bottle? Always thought about doing that but never did.