by Márcio Maso Panzani

The table below lists, as long as I've been able to find out, the 81 known Cone Tops from the United Kingdom, released between December, 1935 and 1951, as well as the one and lonely Irish Cone Top: a 340ml. 'Guinness Export Stout' with the 'Guinness is good for you' label.

This page is the result of a two-years research I've made in a lot of internet sites⁽¹⁾ and in breweriana books⁽²⁾, as well as exchanging mails, not always the electronic ones, with European e Brazilan⁽³⁾ Cone and Flat Tops' collectors.

Obviously, there is no pretension regarding all data here exposed is exact; a lot of details should and will be correct while I receive new inputs from the readers; I hope we can find more 'unknown' cans! If you have 'any' information about 'any' cone from UK or Ireland please drop me an e-mail.

Actualy some cans are know from advertising pieces like magazine ads, posters, and folders from that time. We know only 3 samples of 'Castletown Isle of Man First Prize Ale'; and it is not fully confirmed that 'The Felinfoel Brewery Co. Ltd. Pale Ale' with 340ml was ever produced! I only list the year of the can's release if it is absolutely comfirmed; I will update this column whenever new data arises.

Images are available for more than 45 of the cans; many thanks to Maurizio D'Arrò and Neil Lawrence for their help. Just click in the blue links. Many of the images have a very poor quality but remember we know some cans only from magazine ads, posters and dumpers; some were electronicaly retouched. New images will be added as soon as I receive them from new sources.