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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001206774-21-001052
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	DEFA14A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20210409
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20210409

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			CRANE CO /DE/
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000025445
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	MISCELLANEOUS FABRICATED METAL PRODUCTS [3490]
		IRS NUMBER:				131952290
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			1231

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		DEFA14A
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-01657
		FILM NUMBER:		21816507

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		CRANE CO.
		STREET 2:		100 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE
		CITY:			STAMFORD
		STATE:			CT
		ZIP:			06902
		BUSINESS PHONE:		203-363-7300

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		CRANE CO.
		STREET 2:		100 FIRST STAMFORD PLACE
		CITY:			STAMFORD
		STATE:			CT
		ZIP:			06902
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<DESCRIPTION>DEFINITIVE ADDITIONAL PROXY SOLICITING MATERIALS
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<P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=2>UNITED STATES<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION<BR>Washington, D.C. 20549 </FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=2>SCHEDULE 14A </FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=2>Proxy Statement Pursuant to Section
14(a) of the <BR>Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (Amendment No. ) </FONT></P>
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    <TD noWrap align=left width="87%"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Filed by the Registrant</FONT></TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="text-align: left; width: 1%; padding-right: 8pt">&#9744;</TD>
    <TD noWrap align=left width="10%"><B><FONT face=monospace size=2></FONT></B><FONT face=Arial size=2>Filed by a Party other
      than the Registrant</FONT></TD>
    <TD noWrap align=left width="1%">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD></TR></TABLE><BR>
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    <TD NOWRAP COLSPAN="3" STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 99%; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Preliminary Proxy Statement</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt">&#9744;</TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Confidential, For Use of the Commission Only
      (as permitted by Rule 14a-6(e)(2))</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Definitive Proxy Statement</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Definitive Additional Materials</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD NOWRAP STYLE="border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Soliciting Material Under Rule
    14a-12</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE>
<P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=3><B>Crane Co.</B></FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT face=Arial size=1>(Name of Registrant as Specified In Its
Charter)<BR></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=1>(Name of Person(s) Filing Proxy
Statement, if Other Than the Registrant)</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>
</FONT></P>
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    <TD COLSPAN="4" STYLE="width: 99%; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"><FONT face=Arial size=2>PAYMENT OF FILING FEE (CHECK THE APPROPRIATE
      BOX):</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt">&#9745;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt">&nbsp;</TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>No fee
  required.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt">&#9744;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fee computed on table below per Exchange Act Rules
      14a-6(i)(1) and 0-11.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>1)
      Title of each class of securities to which transaction
  applies:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>2)
      Aggregate number of securities to which transaction applies:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; line-height: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>3)
      Per unit price or other underlying value of transaction computed
      pursuant to Exchange Act Rule 0-11 (set forth the amount on which the
      filing fee is calculated and state how it was determined):</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>4)
      Proposed maximum aggregate value of transaction:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>5) Total fee paid:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Fee paid previously with
      preliminary materials:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt">&#9744;</TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD COLSPAN="2" STYLE="width: 97%; background-color: #f2f2f2; line-height: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=2>Check box if any part of the fee is
      offset as provided by Exchange Act Rule 0-11(a)(2) and identify the filing
      for which the offsetting fee was paid previously. Identify the previous
      filing by registration statement number, or the form or schedule and the
      date of its filing.</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>1)
      Amount previously paid:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>2)
      Form, Schedule or Registration Statement No.:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>3)
      Filing Party:</FONT></TD></TR>
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    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 1%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 4pt; padding-left: 4pt"></TD>
    <TD STYLE="width: 96%; background-color: #f2f2f2; border-bottom: #000000 1pt solid; text-align: left; vertical-align: top; padding-right: 0in; padding-left: 0in"><FONT face=Arial size=1>4) Date
Filed:</FONT></TD></TR></TABLE><BR>
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<P align=center><font size=2><b>CRANE CO.</b><BR>
SUPPLEMENT TO DEFINITIVE PROXY STATEMENT DATED MARCH 12, 2021<BR>
FOR THE 2021 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS<BR>
TO BE HELD ON APRIL 26, 2021</font></p>

<P align=left><font size=2>This supplement (the &#147;Supplement&#148;) amends and supplements the 2021 Notice of Annual Meeting of Stockholders and Proxy Statement of
Crane Co. (the &#147;Company&#148;), dated March 12, 2021 (the &#147;Proxy Statement&#148;), provided to stockholders in connection with the Company&#146;s
2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on April 26, 2021. This Supplement is being filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission and is being made available to stockholders on or about April 9, 2021.</font></p>

<P align=left><font size=2>This Supplement updates the disclosure in the Proxy Statement relating to the effect of abstentions on &#147;Item 4 &ndash; Proposal to Approve the
2018 Amended and Restated Stock Incentive Plan&#148; (&#147;Proposal 4&#148;). Stockholder approval is required for Proposal 4 under the listing rules of
the New York Stock Exchange (&#147;NYSE&#148;), and NYSE guidance provides that Proposal 4 must receive more affirmative votes cast for the
proposal than the aggregate number of votes cast against the proposal plus abstentions. Therefore, pursuant to such NYSE guidance, an
abstention will have the same effect as a vote &#147;AGAINST&#148; Proposal 4.</font></p>

<P align=left><font size=2>Except as specifically supplemented by the information in this Supplement, all information set forth in the Proxy Statement remains
unchanged. From and after the date of this Supplement, all references to the &#147;Proxy Statement&#148; are to the Proxy Statement as supplemented
here by. The Proxy Statement contains important information and this Supplement should be read in conjunction with the Proxy Statement.</font></p>

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