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Unbelievable! When I start the catalog, there was far more moderate quantity.

Where you can find new Soviet caps for your collection? Unfortunately, you can't buy them on bottles any more.

Both museum specialists and collectors of items related to the history of brewing have repeatedly had to deal with various types of beer containers, as well as the components of the containers.

As I announced earlier I've completed to draw help pictures of variation's key features. While I did that I managed to fix some errors in catalog, in calendars. I rearranged Moscow variations with many small differences - the variations have been grouped and now base variations can be found less complicated way.

I finished drawing the logos. Yes, I had to do it myself, as it was impossible to get the old-style logos in vector format. It was lucky if I found any images at all.

You have maybe noteced alikeness of caps from different factories or even cities. Indeed, fonts were changing during production years. I mostly like old 50th, 60th! Standard fonts described in GOSTs. So, I googled and discovered some: GOST 2930-62, GOST 2.304-81, GOST 26.008-85.

Many variations, especially in hierarchy, have multiple differences described as text. It's hard to recognize difference by text especially in large amount of items. So I decided to use some magic and made hints.

I'm glad to inform you, now we're integrated to one of the most popular crown cap resourses Bottle Cap Index

I was recently in St. Petersburg and visited the brewery museum of United Breweries of Heineken. It's a small, cozy cellar in one of the historic buildings of the Stepan Razin brewery. Manager Galina Vsevolodna Klyarovskaya gave an engaging tour, covering various eras of brewing.

Because of my collection storage method change, I decided rescan all my Soviet caps.