About Me

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Me and my collection

I’m Davide Mascherini, I live in nothern Italy, near Modena, I’m collecting crown caps since 1983. I started to collect them in a Yugoslavian beach during my holidays with my parents. I started crown caps trading in 1995 (I had only 2.500 caps) when I met Roberto D'Agostino (one of the biggest collector of the world), who opened my eyes about worldwide crown caps collecting. In 1999 I decided to set my collection homepage and I started scanning all my material.

Early in 2001 I reached my cap number 20.000. Thanks to all collectors I traded with!!!! Now I’ve reached more than 50.000 different crowns and I willingly trade with ohter collectors, so, if you want, contact me. I’m interested in every kind of crown caps (beer, soda, cola, water, wine, fruit juice, milk and so on…). I'm very interested in football (soccer) and baseball related caps. Previously I stored my crown caps in many and many covered wood squares, hanging them on my bedroom walls. Sleeping between crown caps walls was really fantastic, but early in 1999 , with many more crown caps in my collection and not enough space in my room, I decided to change my storing method. I bought several binders with plastic sheets, sorting the caps by country and alphabetically.  In 2003 I changed again and, thanks to my grandfather who was a carpenter, I got many wooden plates where now I store caps from my "biggest" countries such as Italy, Germany, USA, Czech Rep and so on....

In 2007 I married Miriam and moved into my new house, bought IKEA wooden racks and placed my collection in the attic.

I collect the same cap made by different caps producers (you can see the producer logo on the cap side).  I store also my caps infos in a DataBase using MS Works and, of course, I have all the images in my website.In this way I can quickly update my collection every time I get new caps. I'm member of Cap Collector and Crowncaps Collectors Society International (CCSI), Co-founder of www.crowncaps.info homepage, founder of Davide's Crown Caps Forum.

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Very special thanks go to my brother in law Roberto "Ciriz" Rossi, my best supporter and caps finder in pubs and restaurants! Thanks to him also for the animated banners and frame editing of my homepage.