Crown cap Database

How is the Database organized?

How is the Database Organized? 1. The Database was created in 2006 with purpose of documenting crowncaps from all over the world. Only true metal, corrugated crowncaps as originally designed by William Painter are displayed (see The Crown Cork section in the CCSI website). Other bottle closures such as paper milk-bottle caps, non-corrugated metal caps, plastic screw-tops and re-sealers are not included. Obvious fakes, reproductions, replicas and crowns made simply for decorations are never displayed. 2. The Database automatically arranges the crown entries alphabetically by the first word in the entry description. The entry description will contain the text that is printed on the face of the crown and/or information that is not printed but is necessary to describe the crown. The latter will be written in parantheses in the description. 3. A crown with no text on the face will be entered as: image: followed by a description of the graphic design on the face. 4. Database entries are distinguished only by differences in face text, color and graphics. A specific face design will not be repeated in the database regardless of skirt differences including skirt color, bottler names and locations, maker’s marks or skirt attachments (ex. Lift-Top). 5. Besides the Description, crowncap entries will conain the entry number (ID) and any other known information including purpose, city/state locations, country, product, brewer/bottler, relative rareness (only for USA cork beer crowns), period used and maker’ marks. The Extra Info field is used for other information including the name of the photo contibutor, type of cork lining, history of the crown and selling price on eBay. 6. Clicking on the bottler name will bring up an entirely different page that contains information on the brewer/bottler. 7. At the top of each entry is a link entitled “Click here to provide extra informaion” that will put you in contact with the Database Editors in order to provide information or ask a question about a particular crown.

How can I help and add my crowns to the database ?

Everyone can add crowns to the database. You can contact the Crowncap Database Administrators by email: Cork-lined crowns: Jon Bailey (baileyswla@cs.com) Plastic-lined crowns: Thomas Bringle (captainc@slonet.org) Please send clear, squared photos of crowns on a plain white background (ex. copy paper) along with the names and cities of the bottling companies (if known).

How do I use the Brewer/Bottler Search page ?

1. Click on Brewer/Bottler Search 2. Click the Reset Tab after each search 3. In the name field, type in the name you are searching (example: pabst). Type one word only and don't type capital letters, or any punctuation marks. Make sure that the drop down arrow is on Contains. You can switch to Starts with and just type the first letter if the bottler name contains punctuation marks. 4. Click the Search tab. Different bottlers under that name will appear. Click on one of them and when the history page appears, click on All crowncaps from this brewer/bottler. The photos will appear alphabetically according to what is printed on the face of the crown.

How do I use the Crown Cap Search page ?

1. Click on Crowncap Search 2. Click the Reset tab after each search 3. In the Description/Brand name field, type in the brand you are searching (example: squirt). Type one word only and don't type capital letters, or any punctuation marks. Make sure that the drop down arrow is on Contains. You can switch to Starts with and just type the first letter if the brand name contains punctuation marks. 4. Click the Search tab. The photos will appear alphabetically according to what is printed on the face of the crown.

The Crown Cap Card explained

The Crown Cap Card shows all available data on a crown cap entry. It shows the following data: ID: This is the unique ID assigned to this particular crown cap. Description: This is a short description of the crown cap, usually the text on the crown or the brand name Purpose: This is the purpose of the crown cap, the possible values are: Bottle closure Test crown cap Promotional item Liner: This is the inside of the crown, the possible values are: No liner Plastic Cork Since the intention of this database was to only add cork lined crown caps, almost a 100% of the entries will be cork lined. Locations: Locations are the locations where the crown was used. usually the location of the bottler or brewer. Some bottlers used different location to bottle their products. Same bottler, different location. Some collectors collect only crown caps of a certain region or area. This field enables to search for a certain location or city. State/Province: This indicates from what state or Province the crown cap came from. Country: This indicates from what country the crown cap came from. Brewer/bottler: This is the brewer/bottler that used the crown cap for bottling. Relative rareness: The relative rareness rating is an initiative of a group of advanced collectors that rated a selection of crown caps and gave it a rating of 1 to 10 where 1 is most common and 10 very rare. These values are than averaged and will give an indication as to how rare a crown cap is. Period used: The period used is an indication of the year or range of years the crown cap had been in use. Extra info: This field holds any additional information on the crown cap. Direct link: This field provides a direct link to this crown. If you wish to refer to this crown in for example a forum or in an email you can use this link to do so.

How does the Crown Cap List work ?

The Crowncap List can be viewed directly from the menu by clicking on the menu option 'Crowncap Database -> Crown Cap List'. In this case you will see the entire list of crown caps in the database. You can also search for specific crown caps. As a result you will see a filtered 'Crown Cap List' with the search results of your query. The list has various possibilities. - Toggle View The toggle view button allows you to toggle between the column view (default) and the row view. The column view shows you all crown images with a limited amount of data. This enables you to quickly browse through the images. The row view shows more data per crown cap and allows you to quickly read the basic data of a crown cap. - Click on a crown cap image When you click on a crown cap image, you will see the all available data of the crown cap. This function enables you to see more details on the crown cap in question. After you have clicked on the image, the 'Crown cap Card' appears with all available data. See topic 'The Crown cap Card explained' for more details on this feature.