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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.

For a month long I worked on resolving various issues with this resource. Many of the issues demanded attention, but I didn't find time and courage to get rid of. Anyways, I've made some new features, and here is a list of most interesting of them.

Hi, fellows! For a long time I had idea to write a blog about a subject. Besides a frame from movie, I want to define what exactly cap there could be, based on time period, place of shooting, bottle lables etc. Here we go!

We have new remote city in our catalog - Omsk!

During the last weeks I've been working on the project renovation, mostly concerned it's web appearance. Not everything can be seen from the outside, but anyway here is a change list.

A copy of the Vicror Zhdanov's post about restoring the Karmadon cap in bad condition.