When Started Collecting Beer Cans

Beer? No thanks — I’ll just take the tinnie
When collecting beer cans, he wasn't legally old enough to drink. That didn't stop him from joining neighbourhood kids to collect empty beer cans from theroadsides. Nick West
Over time, the curious appeal of the colourful cans grew into a life-long obsession.
“I was surprised at how many different labels could be found and I wondered how manydifferent cans there were in the world,” he said in an email.
his collection of beer cans is the largest of its kind in the world. He's collected 87,000 tinnies of all types and sizes from around the globe,some of which date as far back as 1935. He’s paid as much as $3,500 for a single item, and his collection was recently appraised at $1.6m.
There isn’t a place he won’t go to score a prized tinnie. Hispursuit of vintage British cans — his favourite — once took him to the UK where he spent a month hunting for rare beer cans produced between 1936 and the mid-1960s.
Although the vast majority ofcollectors are older men living in North American and Europe, there are collectors worldwide, some of whom are women. Now he lives in a five-bedroom Victorian house in a small town near Bristol, where hiscollection of 7,500 cans is displayed in a floor-to-ceiling arrangement on purpose-built shelving in two of the bedrooms.






Al recoger las latas de cerveza, que no estaba en edad legal para beber.Eso no le impidió unirse a niños del barrio para recolectar latas de cerveza vacías de los bordes de la carretera. Nick West
Con el tiempo, el curioso atractivo de las latas de colores se convirtióen una obsesión de toda la vida.
"Me sorprendió la cantidad de etiquetas diferente podría ser encontrado y me pregunté cuántas latas diferente había en el mundo", dijo en un correo electrónico.
sucolección de latas de cerveza es la más grande de su tipo en el mundo. Él ha recogido 87.000 tinnies de todos los tipos y tamaños de todo el mundo, algunos de los cuales datan ya en 1935. Él ha pagado...