Captains of Crush Credit Card and Packaging History

[Jared P]

Credit Cards - 5 known versions

• Version 1 - Original silver card (#3, #4 certs listed) (2004), known serial number range 10184-30831
• Version 2 - Silver white 'Magnus Samuelsson' card with gold 'CoC' in the background (#3, #4 certs listed), known serial number range 49071-50616
• Version 3 - Silver white card with gold 'CoC' in background with 3.5 cert addition (#3, #3.5, #4 certs listed), known serial number range 53279
• Version 4 - Sky blue compass card (#3, #3.5, #4 certs listed) (2010), known serial number range 78178
• Version 5 - 'Black Beauty' card (#2, #2.5, #3, #3.5, #4 certs listed), known serial number range 128793-134800

Packaging - 14 known versions

• Version 1 - Silver Crush (1st gen) (#1, #2, #3) (1991) (photo needed)
• Version 2 - Silver Crush (1st gen) (#T, #1, #2, #3) (1992) (photo needed)
• Version 3 - Silver Crush (2nd gen), plastic bag (#T, #1, #2, #3) (1993)
• Version 4 - Silver Crush (2nd gen) (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (1994) (photo needed)
• Version 5 - Single Stamp, plastic bag (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (1995)
• Version 6 - Square package, grey card stock, diagonal gripper orientation (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (2002)
• Version 7 - Double Stamp (clear band), white card stock, blue outline [no hang hole at top] (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (2002)
• Version 8 - Double Stamp, white card stock, blue outline [hang hole present at top, different text placement on back] (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (2004)
• Version 9 - Double Stamp, white card stock, with two large red stars (#G, #S, #T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (2005)
• Version 10 - Modern CoC design, white card stock, first appearance of half-levels (#G, #S, #T, #1, #1.5, #2, #2.5, #3, #3.5, #4) (2006)
• Version 11 - Sky blue compass card stock (#G, #S, #T, #1, #1.5, #2, #2.5, #3, #3.5, #4) (2009)
• Version 12 - Navy blue card stock, first to feature 'Point Five' #0.5 (all models listed) (2012)
• Version 13 - Black card stock, faint 'IronMind' writing in background (all models listed) (early 2014)
• Version 14 - Current design, black card stock, bold 'IronMind' text in background (all models listed) (2014-present)

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Credit Cards - 5 known versions

Version 1 - Original silver card (#3, #4 certs listed) (2004), known serial number range 10184-30831



Version 2 - Silver white 'Magnus Samuelsson' card with gold 'CoC' in the background (#3, #4 certs listed), known serial number range 49071-50616



Version 3 - Silver white card with gold 'CoC' in background with 3.5 cert addition (#3, #3.5, #4 certs listed), known serial number range 53279


Version 4 - Sky blue compass card (#3, #3.5, #4 certs listed) (2010), known serial number range 78178



Version 5 - 'Black Beauty' card (#2, #2.5, #3, #3.5, #4 certs listed), known serial number range 128793-134800


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Packaging - 14 known versions

Version 1 - Silver Crush (1st gen) (#1, #2, #3) (1991) (photo needed)

Version 2 - Silver Crush (1st gen) (#T, #1, #2, #3) (1992) (photo needed)

Version 3 - Silver Crush (2nd gen), plastic bag (#T, #1, #2, #3) (1993)


Version 4 - Silver Crush (2nd gen) (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (1994) (photo needed)

Version 5 - Single Stamp, plastic bag (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (1995)

Version 6 - Square package, grey card stock, diagonal gripper orientation (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (2002)


Version 7 - Double Stamp (clear band), white card stock, blue outline [no hang hole at top] (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (2002)


Version 8 - Double Stamp, white card stock, blue outline [hang hole present at top, different text placement on back] (#T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (2004)


Version 9 - Double Stamp, white card stock, with two large red stars (#G, #S, #T, #1, #2, #3, #4) (2005)


Version 10 - Modern CoC design, white card stock, first appearance of half-levels (#G, #S, #T, #1, #1.5, #2, #2.5, #3, #3.5, #4) (2006)


Version 11 - Sky blue compass card stock (#G, #S, #T, #1, #1.5, #2, #2.5, #3, #3.5, #4) (2009)


Version 12 - Navy blue card stock, first to feature 'Point Five' #0.5 (all models listed) (2012)


Version 13 - Black card stock, faint 'IronMind' writing in background (all models listed) (early 2014)


Version 14 - Current design, black card stock, bold 'IronMind' text in background (all models listed) (2014-present)


@Cannon
@Alex K

Edited April 26 by Jared P

[insane.warrior]

Here are some more white blister packages

[Jared P]

20 minutes ago, insane.warrior said:

Here are some more white blister packages

Left to right it looks like:

Photo 1, Blue outline: Trainer, #1, #2, #3, and #4 listed
Photo 2, No blue outline, red stars: Guide and Sport added
Photo 3, No blue outline, no red stars: GR8 spring? 1.5, 2.5, and 3.5 added?

[matek]

Silver Crush (the full steel goodness)

Edited April 22 by matek

[Alex K]

This is a great thread @Jared P, I feel like this gets less attention than it deserves. I will share a lot of photographs from my collection along with some interesting informations today evening!

[Zeferin]

16 часов назад, Джаред П сказал:

Я думал, что это вызовет интересную дискуссию.

Недавно я приобрел в Интернете более старую версию кредитной карты Captains of Crush (Версия 2 — Небесно-голубая), и мне было любопытно, какова была ее история кредитной карты и упаковка, как серийные номера на картах соотносятся с временной шкалой, а также как упаковка. . и обе карты могут соответствовать одинарному штампу, двойному штампу и захватам GR8.

Кредитные карты . Я считаю, что существует только 3 версии?

Версия 1 — оригинальный белый, варианты сертификатов № 3 и № 4 Версия 2 — Небесно-голубой, варианты сертификатов № 3, № 3,5 и № 4 Версия 3 — черный, № 2 и № 2,5 (женские), № 3 , № 3,5 и № 4 (мужские) варианты сертификатов -------------------------------- ----- ------------------------------ Упаковка - 5 версия? Версия 1 — одиночная марка, полиэтиленовый пакет.

Версия 2 — двойная марка, белый картон.

Версия 3 - 2009 года? Небесно-голубой картон, фон компаса . Версия 4 — 2012 года? Карты темно-синего цвета, версия 5 — текущие, черные карточки.








@Cannon
@Алекс К.

 у меня есть только такой 2012 года 

[Vinnie]

We are one geeky crew!  But I confess, I fit right into it, and appreciate this thread as well.

[Cannon]

10 minutes ago, Vinnie said:

We are one geeky crew!  But I confess, I fit right into it, and appreciate this thread as well.

Agree, this is an incredible thread. I love it. This kind of thing is what I had in mind for the Tetting thread. Documenting who got what, when, and what different stamps look like, etc. Love it!

[Jedd Johnson]

This is really awesome! Would you mind if I did a screen capture of this for my YouTube Channel?  I would give you all the credit and provide a link back to this thread, @Jared P

Thanks for your consideration.

[Alex K]

Here are some infos that I have gathered along with some nice photographs!

 

From right to left we have a Single Stamp, 02' Double Stamp, 04' Double Stamp, 05' Double Stamp and modern design CoCs (with better knurling) from 06', 09' 12' and 14'. There are a total of two missed packages here - the square 02' package where the gripper was placed diagonally, and the early 14' package with the "IronMind" writing much more faded. I had one of those but tossed the package away after some time. The 05' GR8 double stamp was actually opened by me too, something I couldn't resist doing a while back

Here are some close-ups of the very old ones:

Single Stamp (1995-2002), same package was used on Silver Crush grippers I believe. The very old ones actually said "Silver Crush":

A favourite of mine, the 02' Double Stamp, this one particular gripper is also called the "Samuelsson #4" (2002):

A slightly different package for double stamps with the CoC writing on the handles from 2004 (the text placement on the back is also very different):

The GR8 double stamp package looks quite similar to the white packaging used on the first "modern design" CoCs, but is also slightly different! Obviously, no 1.5 2.5 and 3.5 yet!

Edited April 22 by Alex K

[Cannon]

1 hour ago, Alex K said:

There are a total of two missed packages here - the square 02' package where the gripper was placed diagonally, and the early 14' package with the "IronMind" writing much more faded.

So the next question is whether anyone has photos of these even if they’re not of ones in their own collection?

[Alex K]

1 hour ago, Cannon said:

So the next question is whether anyone has photos of these even if they’re not of ones in their own collection?

Found an old pic of that package I mentioned where the IM writing is less visible!

 

Fun fact: I still have that #2.5 from that package and I’m regularly using it! Knurling back then was amazing.

The package difference becomes very obvious when compared to a modern package. An example of a video with one is Vano’s #3 cert from around that brief time when they were around. Check it out!

Also, here’s the other 2002 package I was missing containing a #4 (found the pic online):

I think this one belonged to @Brett H

Edited April 22 by Alex K

[Brett H]

20 minutes ago, Alex K said:

Found an old pic of that package I mentioned where the IM writing is less visible!

 

Fun fact: I still have that #2.5 from that package and I’m regularly using it! Knurling back then was amazing.

The package difference becomes very obvious when compared to a modern package. An example of a video with one is Vano’s #3 cert from around that brief time when they were around. Check it out!

Also, here’s the other 2002 package I was missing containing a #4 (found the pic online):

I think this one belonged to @Brett H

Yep, that was mine. I sold it to Vitalik Sevko. Funny you post this, as I was just recently contacting Vitalik about getting it back. I am not sure where this picture came from, as the package was more gray than it appears here.

Edited April 22 by Brett H

[Brett H]

Here is a front and back picture. Man, I wish I had not gotten rid of this one. Of course this is the case for about every gripper I have ever sold.

[Jared P]

Amazing! Thanks guys for the excellent info and photos. @Alex K that is some great documenting.

12 hours ago, Jedd Johnson said:

This is really awesome! Would you mind if I did a screen capture of this for my YouTube Channel?  I would give you all the credit and provide a link back to this thread, @Jared P

Thanks for your consideration.

No need to give me any credit for anything. I just made a topic is all, because I find it interesting. Maybe wait on the video until all the info is documented fully.

[Brett H]

22 hours ago, matek said:

Silver Crush (the full steel goodness)

Wow! I need that one!

[Jared P]

Version 2 CoC card arrived in the mail today. It's copyrighted with 2010 on the back.

It came with this older model CoC 1.5 on the eBay listing. The knurling is noticeably sharper and darker/shinier. Guessing it also comes from this same time period (2009-2014ish).

 

@Alex K had a good thread about the knurling change. I thought there was also another thread on the board about the CoC gripper timeline history, but I couldn't find it.

[Jared P]

8 hours ago, Alex K said:

A favourite of mine, the 02' Double Stamp, this one particular gripper is also called the "Samuelsson #4" (2002):

A slightly different package for double stamps with the CoC writing on the handles from 2004 (the text placement on the back is also very different):

Also noticed that the '02 has no 'hang hole' at the top, while the '04 and all subsequent packaging have hang holes, as well as the square '02 package.

[Jared P]

Updated the original post.

Looks like there are 3 credit card versions, and 11 packaging versions (that we know of so far).

[matek]

4 hours ago, Jared P said:

Updated the original post.

Looks like there are 3 credit card versions, and 11 packaging versions (that we know of so far).

Since you put a question mark for the date of the Silver Crush I've posted (not mine btw): 

The first generation of Silver Crush didn't have a band, no numbers stamped, shiny spring, pinned. The second-gen is '93-'94, but at '94 the #4 was already introduced, which is not listed on the package. So that package its from 1993.

We are missing:

- '91 Silver Crush package: #1, #2, #3
- '92 Silver Crush package: #T, #1, #2, #3
- '94 Silver Crush package: #T, #1, #2, #3, #4 
And there are the pre-silver crush full black Ironmind grippers (also made by Warren Tetting), I guess those had some kind of package as well. But those might not be "Captains of Crush", just Ironmind. 

Edited April 23 by matek

[Blacksmith513]

Sorta off topic and maybe a stupid question....

Did Ironmind sell COC grippers in stores or catalogs I would have seen as a kid back in the day?

 

Some of the packaging looks awfully familiar to me. 

[Cannon]

7 hours ago, Jared P said:

Updated the original post.

Looks like there are 3 credit card versions

I believe more are incoming. Alex talked to me about another unique card. It's the first silver one, but with two variations. The second has the 3.5 box added. 

And @Alex K, I'm noticing that the two you have are actually different from the one pictured above that says Magnus Samuelsson. That one has like the Batman "POW" hand-gripper-closing logo in the number square. There are two others which do not. 

[Cannon]

Here is mine from 2006. It’s faded and kind of delaminating even though I never used it. 

[Cannon]

Actually I'm noticing that my card I just posted is significantly different and another unique variant. There is no gold "COC" behind the hand, and the banner that says "GRIPPERS" is more of a line drawing where later it's a blue banner with shine gradients that go all the way to white. 

From a post on Teemu's Gripper Strength wordpress blog. This matches my card without the POW hand in the number box. I know I got my card in 2006:

The next version with the gradient banner:

 

Then there is that exact gradient banner card again except with a tiny #3.5 box crammed between the #3 and #4. 

[Alex K]

16 minutes ago, Cannon said:

And @Alex K, I'm noticing that the two you have are actually different from the one pictured above that says Magnus Samuelsson. That one has like the Batman "POW" hand-gripper-closing logo in the number square. There are two others which do not. 

I believe that comes from Magnus being certified on the #3 and #4. I think this tradition still lives on till this day, when you certify on a CoC. I‘ll have to experience this first hand hopefully soon