Bottle cap collecting
Bottle cap collecting is the hobby of collecting metallic crown caps. The hobby may or may not include drinking beverages that have been sealed with crown caps. Opening bottles with traditional openers may damage the crown caps, thus some collectors use automatic bottle openers to avoid any substantial damage to the crown caps.[1]
World records
Largest collection
Pol Høegh Poulsen is the record holder, who has a collection of over 101,700 unique bottle caps, which is the largest collection in the world.[1][2]
Longest chain of bottle caps
There is also a record for longest line of bottle caps, which is 87,575 bottle caps.[1]
Mass culture
In the video game series Fallout, bottlecaps are collected and used as a form of currency.[3]
See also
- Autograph collecting
- Bicycle collecting
- Book collecting
- Button collecting
- Casino chip collecting
- Coin collecting
- Comic book collecting
- County collecting
- Element collecting
- Fossil collecting
- Handbag collecting
- Insect collecting
- Knife collecting
- Mineral collecting
- Patch collecting
- Plant collecting
- Police item collecting
- Scout item collecting
- Seaweed collecting
- Sneaker collecting
- Stamp collecting
- Video game collecting
References
- ^ a b c "The Art of the Bottle Cap Collection: Drink Beer, Save the Caps!". TaZa.co. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ "Largest collection of bottle caps". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
- ^ Swan, Cameron (11 January 2022). "Fallout: The Lore Behind Bottle Caps". Gamerant.com. Game Rant. Retrieved 18 July 2022.