Rahr's Flat Tops

I purchased this group cans out of northern Wisconisn in July 2009. The family was settling their father's estate and told me the following story as I was looking over the cans. The father own a liqour store for 25 years or so and sold the business back in the mid 1970's. The new owners did not want any of the old inventory, one being Jim Beam deanters the other being 8 cases of full Rahr's beer cans from the late 1960's that were basement of the store. So the former owner took the old inventory home and stored it in his basement. In the last 1970's when beer can collecting was at it peak the father look into selling the Rahr's can. All the can were full and in mint condition and the father was offered $50.00 per can a total of $9600.00 The father who was also a gun dealer did not sell the cans. He wanted to wait for a higher price for the cans. Can prices were going threw the roof at that time. But it was long after that and the beer can market crashed. Over the year the can sat in the basement and before long the cans started to leak at the seams. 30 year later I'm looking at the damaged cans. I'm sad to say there is not one mint can in the group. Most the can range from grade 1 to 1/1- or grade 7 to 5. with about 15 cans better than a grade 1.