Cheers!
Heinrich Kath, a farmer, shows off some of his approximately 20,000 beer mugs in Cuxhaven, in northern Germany. Although he does not drink beer, he has been collecting steins since 1997.
Bath-Time Fun
Valli Hammer’s collection of rubber ducks — no two of them alike — was not the world’s largest when this photo was taken. The 2,469 ducks she possessed were several hundred fewer than those held by a woman in California who claims the world record.
The basement of Ron Hood’s home in Lewiston, Maine, has been fitted to display his collection of Pez dispensers and merchandise. He currently has more than 3,000 Pez items but noted in a 2008 interview that “my collection is considered very small in Pez-collector circles.”
Fun Key
A USO key chain purchased in Vietnam (where he served as a helicopter gunner) 41 years ago got Ron Tyler started on a lifetime of collecting.
Happy Holidays
Sharon Badgley’s collection of 6,000 Santa Claus dolls is so large that it takes her almost three weeks to display them all.
Pocket Monsters
Featured in the Guinness World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition, Lisa Courtney’s Pokemon memorabilia collection includes 12,113 items.
Slide Master
Mary Ann Sell of Cincinnati, Ohio, holds 40,000 View-Master reels in her private collection, considered one of the world’s largest, in Green Bay, Wisc.
Smoke Sessions
Since 2003, Chinese collector Wang Guohua has been amassing cigarette boxes, some of which he now keeps in a room in Hangzhou, in China’s Zhejiang province. The collection includes 30,000 cigarette boxes from more than 100 production areas spanning more than 10 countries.
Hooters
Guinness has acknowledged Pam Barker of Leeds, Maine, as the owner of the world’s largest collection of owls. She possesses more than 18,000 owl items.
Dimitris Pistiolas of Athens owns the world’s largest private collection of movie cameras — 937 vintage models and projectors. Via : time.com
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Awesome! I don’t understand why anyone would want to collect santa claus figurines, though..
Collection of 20,000 beer mugs , and man dont drink beer
, thats weird….
i have a collection of 251 ice cream scoopers, does it qualify?
|:( only if you eat icream once a week (at tha least) and none of them are shaped as a dldio
Ron Tyler is camouflaged there.
Cool way to obviously have no meaning to your lives! Starving people in third world countries? Contributing to society? No way lets spend ridiculous time and money collecting stupid things..
Ahh, the life of an american.
episodes of hoarder’s in the making.
Personally, I can understand the appeal of buying a *few* very high priced, quality collector’s items. To possess a rare coin with an interesting history or rare books and antique furniture gives you something few or no other people in the world have and would add interest to the room in which you display it. Even a stamp collection takes up a small amount of space for the interest and history it contains.
However, I can not understand this. What’s the point? “Look at me, I can buy more junk than you!” It doesn’t display affluence or intellectual depth, because to own all of that is pointless. It doesn’t improve your home, because it takes it over. These people aren’t collecting anything but dust.