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Cone-top cans appealed to customers because they were easy to pour, and they were popular with brewers because the cans could be slotted into existing bottling lines. There were low-profile cone tops and high-profiles ones, as well as mid-profile J-spout cans, all of which were assembled from three pieces of metal. The exception to this rule was the Crowntainer, whose concave base anchored that can’s one-piece body.
Flat tops were simpler to make and cheaper to ship than cone tops—in the end, that won the day. Because flat-top cans were ubiquitous compared to cone-top cans, which had all but disappeared by the end of the 1950s, cone tops are generally more sought after by collectors.
Another subset of beer-can collecting focuses on cans made during World War II. All beer sent to the military, which was supposed to account for 15 percent of each brewer’s output, had less alcohol in it than beer brewed for domestic consumption (3.2 percent versus 4-to-7 percent). That’s one differentiator to look for when trying to date a potential war-era can, which should also have a statement on it that reads, "Withdrawn Free of Internal Revenue Tax for Exportation." By 1944, the domestic labels used for canned military-bound beer were replaced with olive-drab packaging, which makes these cans even easier to identify.
In the postwar years, all flat-top cans had to be opened manually with a church key. In 1960, Burger Brewing of Cincinnati introduced a steel can with an aluminum lid to make this task easier for consumers. But the major change in beer cans occurred in 1962, when Pittsburgh’s Iron City Brewing canned its beer in Alcoa-made zip-top cans. Over the next two years, numerous different types of zip-top cans would be introduced, some with no instructions on the can’s tops, others with sharp edges on the tab itself, and a few that left an opening in the top of the can that collectors refer to as a dogbone for its shape. Schiltz called its zip tops "pop tops." Call them what you like, but these small, sharp strips of metal littered beaches and parks until 1975, when they were replaced by stay tabs.
Buckeye Beer Can
Beer Can House Part Deux
Beer Can Collection (flats/cones) Rare Cans. No Commons
Rainier Jubilee Half Quart Brewery Series Flat Top Steel Beer Can Yellow 16 Oz,
Dawson's Dawsons Ale Cone Top Beercan With The King Of Diamonds For A Label
Very Nice Sunshine Light Beer Can Quart Cone Top
Nice Prince Regal Beer American Brewery Miami,florida Cone Top All Original Can
Wisconsin Gold Label Enamel Flattop Beer Can-swiss Brw'g. Monroe, Wi.
Fox Delux Bock Beer Can Fox Brewing Co. Chicago Ill. 
London Bobby Brand Ale Crowntainer Cone Top, Dayton, Ohio
Beautiful: Green Krueger Cream Ale Usbc 89-30 Oi Flattop Beer Can
Pepsi Cola Cone Top Can 1950
Krueger Cream Ale Pint 16oz Conetop Cone Top Beer Can 
Krueger Cream Ale Quart Conetop Cone Top Beer Can 
Genesee Light Ale Quart Conetop Cone Top Beer Can 
Genesee 12 Horse Quart Conetop Cone Top Beer Can 
Griesedieck Bros. St. Louis Beer - Crowntainer Cone Top Irtp
Fox Head 400 Blue Enameled Flattop Beer Can-foxhead-waukesha Wi
Gamecock Ale Flat Top Beer Can
Old Vintage Heilemans Cone Top Beer Can
Fox Deluxe Brown Lettered Version Flattop Beer Can-foxhead-waukesha Wi
Half Quart Drewrys Yellow "your Character" Flat Top 16 Oz Beer Can ~ South Bend
Yuengling Cone Top (quart) Beer Can 
1937 Lucky Lager O.i. Flat Top Beer Can..rare Metallic..clean..
La Crosse Breweries,inc.wisconsin Peerless Cone Top 4% Beer Can+bottle Cap Crown
Webber Peerless Blatz Old Style Beer Cone Top Beer Can
Krug Pilsener Type Flat Top Beer Can - Blue White San Francisco, Ca 12 Oz Empty
Kingsbury Pale Beer Crowntainer - Cone Top Beer Can - Sheboygan, Wis
E & B Special Beer Cone Top Can, Detroit, Michigan
Burger Beer High Profile Cone Top W/ Cap ~ Cincinnati, Ohio
Vtg Steel Metal Straight Cone Top Diehl Beer Can Never Opened Defiance Ohio
Vintage Rare 1930's Manhattan Premium Beer Can Flat Top Chicago Illinois Capone
4 Vintage Cone Top Beer Cans Blatz, Falstaff Rainier And Siera
Grade 1/1- Progress Cone Top
Cone Top Dumper Beer Can Pilsener J Spout Frederick's Thornton Illinois 
Schlitz Sunshine Vitamin D Cone Top Beer Can- No Cap
Rare, Nu - Deal Brand Flat Top Beer Can Santa Rosa Calif O/i
Quart Edelweiss Light Beer Cone Top Can Chicago Illinois Ex.+
Nice Weber Metallic Gold/brown Band-waukesha,wi Flattop Beer Can
Old & Nice 1937 Vintage Schlitz Beer Original Cone Top Metal Can
Fitzgerald's Burgomaster Beer - Troy, Ny - J-spout Cone Top Irtp
Lot Of 80 Vintage Straight Steel 12oz Beer Cans- Early 70's - Late 70"s
Krueger Ale Flat Top Beer Can- Nice
Augustiner Cone Top Beer Can
1970s Beautiful Carved Wood Beer Can Collectors Of America Wall Plaque W/ Clock 
Rare Old Anchor Cone Top Beer Can Nr
Clipper Pale Flat Top Beer Can Grace Bros **** L@@k *****
Schlitz Beer Original Cone Top Metal Can 1930's Vitamin-d Old Rare No Reserve !
Drewrys Old Stock Ale 12 Oz. Flat Top Beer Can- Drewrys Ltd.,south Bend, In
Nip Johnson Spincasting Budweiser Fishing Bud Beer Can Reel For Lures And Baits
Old Tap Ale Cone Top Beer Can, Enterprise Brewery, Fall River Ma.
4% Alc. Grain Belt Golden Premium Beer High Profile Cone Top W/ Cap Minneapolis
Budweiser Princeton 20th Reunion 16 Ounce Beer Can
Clean Original ~ Hudepohl ~ Flat Pull Tab Top Beer Can ~ B/o Older Style Tab 
Old & Nice 1930s Vintage Stag Beer Original Cone Top Metal Griesedieck Can
Old Genessee Beer Can
12oz Falstaff Cone Top Beer Can
Paul Bunyan Flat Top Beer Can 1950's
Beer Can Collection From The 1970's Of 55 Steel 12 Oz Cans Pull Tabs
Schlitz Lager Beer, Milwaukee Wisconsin, 1930's Cone Top, Indoor And No Reserve!
Iron City Its Real Beer Cone Top Beer Can Empty
Tennents Lager 4 Different Girls Beer Cans
