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I improved the coding mechanism of hierarchal variations.

There are color images of caps in our catalog, at last! This is an outstanding event for me, because there were no such images in the previous version of the catalog.

Soviet caps must be handled differently than other (“normal”) caps. I will focus here on crown caps made from aluminum, which is of course softer than steel. That is why a thick plate was used to made a crown cap, to achieve more strength. I learned that it is not too difficult to bring such a cap back to excellent condition, but let’s not hurry...

Here I should comment on the mobile version of the catalog. It is the first of my projects to have a portable version.

A significant part of the catalog consists of embossed crowncaps. At first glance, they all look like identical twins. It's good if the text is different, but sometimes it's the same. How to bring order to all this?

Several years ago, I tried to create a bottlecap catalog, but it was limited in structure, details, and completeness, so I am launching a new project.

Welcome to the USSR! This web-site is dedicated to a particular relic of a bygone era: the crown cap as it existed in the Soviet Union. Many people associate things such as crown caps as a throw-away item, but there are others who regard them not as something disposed of but as a treasure to be collected – and collected with the kind of manic devotion seen in this website!