A special cap of The Caps of the USSR

I just got nice visit caps of Fedorov family.

In this article I will try to describe a very interesting hobby – metal detection – and how it relates to our own more general hobby, crown caps collecting.

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...