Guaranteed vintage. The actual crown you will receive will be in equal or better condition than the one shown.
Condition: Please use the zoom tool and examine crowns carefully. Crowns may have, dings, dents, dimples, discoloration, creases, scuffs, scratches, oxidation, fading, paint loss, paint residue, or other flaws. They could even be misshapen or have a hole although I try to point out a hole. It is not time-worthy to attempt to describe all the imperfections of a crown. Feel free to ask for additional images, if needed.
Corks: The cork-lining in crowns on auction may be intact, partially intact, missing, discolored, stained, fragmented, replaced, or loose. If you are particular about the cork, then ask questions before you bid.
Uncorked uncrimped crowns: Some unused crowns of the cork-lined era were never corked as they were pulled from the production line to be used as a salesman's sample. Sales reps handed these out to potential customers, or they could be mounted in a display book to show customers. In other instances, employees would take one or two of a design off the line prior to the cork being installed and take them home for displays or souveniers.
Skirts: I don't usually photograph the side(s) of a crown. I usually try to take the time to show a really bad spot, but sometimes time is short and I overlook it. If it is really important to you on a particular crown, ask for additional images.
Reflared: Some crowns I receive in collections and trade stock I've bought have been re-flared. If you are the winning bid on a reflared crown, simply request in the note section of your Paypal payment and I will re-cap your crown on a bottle to eliminate the reflaring, keeping in mind a slight concaveness in the crown could result.
Locations: In the title I try to use a city/state if readable on the skirt (side) of the crown. If not available, I use the city/state listed in the Crowncap Collectors Society International
CCSI database. The database may list the Home Office of the bottler, or the original bottling plant of the brand even though the brand may have been licensed for bottling in additional locations. If it is important to you to know what city/state appears on the skirt, if not shown in the images, please inquire before bidding as I don't accept returns.
Abbreviations: When space is limted in the title of an auction I may use U CORK for used cork liner and UN CORK for unused cork liner.
Any time a crown is described as "used cork" that is a shortened version of the longer description of "used cork liner". The same is true of of "unused cork" being a shortened version of the longer description of "unused cork liner". These two abbreviations refer only to the liner of the crown and not to the material that is the larger shell of the crown.