GIRL CANS
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Despite being interesting subjects for collectors (...and non-collectors too, I guess), not many breweries have decorated their cans with pictures of girls.
Fortunately, one brand proves an exception: Tennent's Lager, by Tennent's Caledonian Breweries of Glasgow, Scotland; this brewery owes a large part of its fame to the many beautiful sets produced from the early '60s to the late '80s, now probably the most cherished collectable cans, both for their subjects and for the high quality printing process known as Reprotherm, a technique which allows excellent colour pictures also on two-piece cans.
This is why a large part of this page is dedicated to Tennent's 'Lager Lovelies'. But also a number of other less famous pictorial cans with girls are shown: it would be a shame to disregard them.

dates (shown in brackets) are approximate
~~~~~ TENNENT'S GIRLS ~~~~~

JUNE
(1979)
from a 4-can set

 NORMA
(1980)
from a 5-can set

 SANDRA
(1981)
from a 4-can set
LORRAINE
(1982)
from a 4-can set

 GEORGINA
(1982)
from a special 8-can set
for the brewery's centenary
 JANIS
(1986)
from a 4-can set
SHONA
(1986)
from a 4-can set


 SUSANAH
(1987)
from a 5-can set


 NATHALIE
(1988)
from a 5-can set
(...the last one)




PENNY
(1978)
from a 5-can set

a limited number of 'Tennent's Lovelies'
came also in non-440 ml. sizes;
the one shown states
333 ml. / 11.5 fl.oz.
made for export
SWEETHEART STOUT
(1982)
single can

another popular brand by Tennent's:
the picture of the
'Sweetheart of Alloa'
has been an unchanged
label for 20 years



~~~~~ NON·TENNENT'S GIRLS ~~~~~

··· BRITAIN ···

HOFMEISTER
(1986)
3-can set
promotional cans, offering George the Bear's 1987 calendar; George seems to be having a great time,
and although the pictures are not as good as in Tennent's sets, his girls look great all the same



··· GERMANY ···

BOMBERS' PIN-UP BEER
(1995)
3-can set
OK, I'm a pacifist: so let's ignore the war aircrafts in the background,
and focus our attention on the 1940's fashioned pin-ups








FANCY BIKER
BEER
(1997)
2-can set

two good reasons for regretting not to be a biker...
these ones are two-piece specimens (note the absence of the lower rim), in hard aluminium

both sets are produced by Engel-Brauerei, a German brewery known for these peculiar 'can bottles'


··· ITALY ···




VON WUNSTER
CLASSICA
(1982)
single cans

during the early '80s, the Italian brand Von Wunster produced two half litre cans with a girl
on one side, and a more generic label on the back (a number of label varieties exist)



··· U.S.A. ···




SUGAR & SPICE
(1982)
from a 9-can set

a set featuring Mary, Terri and Sherri (pictured),
posing in different attitudes


Other 'girls' cans known (but not shown) are an obsolete Akropol produced in Greece during the mid '70s,
and a Malaysian set with 5 subjects by Anchor Beer named 'Beermaids of the World', from the late '80's.
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