Fin Bottle Club: Trap Your Caps in a Map! Vintage Beer Cap 50 State Display Map Board

Lots of bottle collectors also enjoy collecting ''go-withs'', including colorful vintage bottle caps, also called CROWNS.

Here's a neat way to display your collection, from our friends at UNCOMMON GOODS.

They sell 2 different shaped boards that you pop your caps into.

This one is kinda-sorta-perfect if you have a '50 State' collection since it's shaped like the United States, although it holds 77 caps.

Crafted from Baltic birch plywood, the openings have small teeth that fit the crimped edges of caps to hold them securely, and the board sports additional holes to hang the whole display on your man cave wall. Handmade in Tampa, Florida. Available here for only $35.

Maybe your collection is from A-Z, or regional, or by brand. Just pop your caps into this bottle shaped display board. Also only $35, available here.

History of CROWN BOTTLES AND CAPS:

Learn about the history of the invention of the crown cap bottle without which we wouldn't have needed these wonderful caps -- http://www.sha.org/bottle/pdffiles/BaltimoreLoopSealarticle.pdf

It appears to be Painter vs Bernadin to claim the invention of the crown cap - http://www.bullworks.net/virtual/infopages/crowncork.htm

Read more of the book The Oxford Companion to Beer here.

Crown caps, whether beer or soda pop, or food/sauce/products, came with a zillion different colorful brand logos on them. The themes for a collection are endless.

Learn more about bottle cap collecting, and see tons of neat caps, on these sites: