old beer bottle/can openers

[tjmurphy]

This is interesting. I guess when I deleted photos from photobucket.com, it replaced the photos in my post with something else. Anyone else ever have this happen?

[orvet]

Tom,
When you post a link to a photo it pulls the image from that site.
If you change what is at the site, the pic changes.

The easy thing to do is download the pic to AAPK and you don't have to maintain the pics at another site.

Dale

[trail]

Hers's an Honorary Budweiser Brewmaster key. It's a big ole thing - 6 3/4 inches overall.

[knife7knut]

Here are a few from my collection:
1st is a Bonsa folding knife w/cap lifter and folding church key.Only one I've ever seen.
2nd is a cap lifter on the end of a knife marked,"Marietta Torpedo Co" which made torpedoes for oil drilling rigs.Too long to explain.
3rs is one of the strangest knives I have ever seen:it has a straight edged blade with a guide(?)on the tip.Use unknown.It has a saw blade and a curved blade that only opens 90 degrees(sort of like an opium harvesting knife)and a folding cap lifter/church key on the top.No maker's name.
4th is a folding church key with fixed cap lifter.Very unusual.
5th is a Hickok bar tool that has a hammer/ice breaker with a cap lifter on the other end and a corkscrew inside the hammer head and a knife blade inside the other end.An olive fork and a martini stirrer complete the set which is inside a fitted leather case.
6th is a pair of cap lifter/church key combos with a matching ice pick.

[knife7knut]

More pictures

[trail]

Country Club Malt Liquor was brewed by M.K. Goetz of St. Joseph, MO, itself (after 1961) a division of the legendary Pearl Brewing Company of San Antonio TX.

[cbnutt]

TJ, i dont have a pic, but i have a martin guitar bottle opener.

[CCBill]

I remember when, "Old Milwaukee" beer came to Amarillo back in the 70's. I have a friend that was a real Beero(instead of wino). He came by my house one day and asked me to follow him in my pickup. He went to a local(Amarillo) United grocery store. They were introducing Old M at $3.00 per case. He asked the manager if there was a limit on how many cases he could buy. The manager said he could only buy 3 cases per visit. We went through the checkout many, many times with 3 cases each. Butch wound up buying 285 cases of beer over a 2 day period. He stacked them in his garage and grabbed a case EVERY DAY, when he left for work. He was managing a family farm and ranching operation(his family owned about 35 sections of land)
He'd put a case of beer on the seat beside him, hot or cold, and that's what he drank all day long. Saw him a couple of years ago. He quit drinking. That's no mean feat for a person that drank AT LEAST a case a day for 25 years.
One of his Brothers made some stuff called "Apple Beer" one time. Butch handed me a glass of it to try. He said it was kind of syrupy because they pulled it off early. I drank it. I didn't get very drunk but I swear that everybody else was so drunk that I could just barely see them.The drunker I sat there, the longer I got.
True story. Sorry I hijacked your thread.
...CCBill...

[trail]

Farmers and Old Milwaukee... I had a friend, grew up in the depression and scraped out a livelihood one way or another for the next 60 years - always kept a six pack of Old Milwaukee on the front seat of his truck. A bunch of us teenagers were throwing hay for him one day, and after we got done he gave us each one of those hot beers. Went down like air...

[trail]

Another great old American brewer:

[tjmurphy]

Here are couple of more local Northern Kentucky Beers. Wiedemann's brewed in Newport, Ky., and Bavarian's brewed in Covington, Ky.

[FRJ]

Well guys, here's one you don't have. I have long wanted to make my own cap lifter and searched for an appropriate vehicle to fashion one from. Being a collector of old tools I came across this old turn screw which long ago was kneveled by someone. I don't think the blade and handle were original. All the more reason to bastardize it into something else. I would'nt ruin an honest old tool. And you know, this darn thing works!!

Joe

[FRJ]

O.K., this is a challenge. This cap lifter was easy to fashion. Will someone else offer their own creation? I hope someone will go to their bench and post picts of their results. Go for it!!!!

Joe

[trail]

How about take a dremel tool to it and engrave "FRJ Knifemaker's Premium Lager" on it, then put it aside for historians of the next century to puzzle over? That's a great opener, the best I've seen yet! If I had a shop and the slightest bit of mechanical aptitude, I'd try making one myself. I hope you have started something and we see some more "custom" bottle openers on this thread.

[trail]

Here is a milk cap lifter from Rountree Dairy of Suffolk, Virginia. In recent years, the dairy has been redeveloped for golf and residential.

[tjmurphy]

I don't ever remember a milk bottle cap needing an opener. When I was a kid, the milk bottles had a paper lid that you just pulled off and under that was a round tab pull paper cap, the bottom of which had the sweetest cream you could find anywhere. We'd fight over that. Of course, this was Northern Kentucky, don't really know what was in the other parts of the country.

[trail]

I remember milk jugs having an aluminized cardboard cap with a twisted wire holding it on. But evidently there were crimped on metal caps as well, as I have found a number of these old wire formed lifters with dairy markings. They are considerably bigger than beer bottle openers. The legend on the reverse "purity protected dacro sealed milk" makes me think this lifter might be from when metal caps first started getting a plastic gasket or seal molded underneath. Any dairymen out there who can give us a definitive history of milk-capping practices?

[glennbad]

I realize this is a 10 year old thread, but I wanted to add these. They came from my father-in-law, I found them while clearing out his house a while back.

[mrwatch]

I have some advertising "church keys" going way back and bottle openers. My kids collected beer cans and I still have many of them. And a Falstaff cone top beer can and a rusty one but still nice we found while deer hunting. And five Billie Beer can, kid probably sneaked one. Never went up in value. Around 1963 the James Bond girls picture beer cans came put. Yes we tried the "near beer" which was lame. 7/11 stores had their own beer not good but wet I was told.

[Ripster]

Morning folks , just read this this topic. Reminded me of the Tavern here in town from the past. As Gramps told it the Dutchman’s was a rough place ,it was down by the Confluence of the Chippewa River and Eau Claire River. Very tough area in its day ,saw mills ,livery Stables, blacksmith shops and red light district. He also said Dutch wouldn’t allow polish or Irish in the joint, would actually pull a shotgun and tell them to leave ,that they’re on “the wrong side of the RR track” .And Gramps would know ,he was full blooded Dutch and Grams ,she was German, and they both where very judgmental.

[doglegg]

Morning folks , just read this this topic. Reminded me of the Tavern here in town from the past. As Gramps told it the Dutchman’s was a rough place ,it was down by the Confluence of the Chippewa River and Eau Claire River. Very tough area in its day ,saw mills ,livery Stables, blacksmith shops and red light district. He also said Dutch wouldn’t allow polish or Irish in the joint, would actually pull a shotgun and tell them to leave ,that they’re on “the wrong side of the RR track” .And Gramps would know ,he was full blooded Dutch and Grams ,she was German, and they both where very judgmental.

Great story Ripster, and that bottle opener is sure with some wonderful company there. I especially like the short line.

[glennbad]

I remembered I also had this one, a Colonial

[Ripster]

I remembered I also had this one, a Colonial

Colonial opener.JPG

Hey Glenn b , never knew Colonial made those, another interesting and new to me thing. What handle material did they use?
Thanks

[glennbad]

I remembered I also had this one, a Colonial

Colonial opener.JPG

Hey Glenn b , never knew Colonial made those, another interesting and new to me thing. What handle material did they use?
Thanks

Just some kind of plastic/comp, nothing special. I found this in an antique store, and although I don't really collect openers, I couldn't pass up the knife company connection.

[Ripster]

Glenn ,thanks for getting back on that handle material. It’s a cool opener , have a good one