Collection of collections of unusual unique items. The largest collection of wooden walking sticks

In childhood, many were fond of collecting. Someone collected stamps or calendars, someone was more interested in exchanging coins with friends from different countries, or carefully arrange on the shelf miniature figures of your favorite animals, cars, dolls. And in many kitchens today, the refrigerator door is literally hung with various magnets. What is this if not a collection? However, all these are examples of quite traditional hobbies, and people live in the world who decided at some point to collect rather unusual things. Many of them have succeeded in this business, but here are only 10 of the most unusual collections.

10 Banana Paradise

Children are sure that a banana with a sticker is much tastier than without it. These small labels are in great demand among the kids. But with age, interest in them disappears by itself. But for the American Becky Marts, this childhood hobby has grown into an adult hobby, which she has been doing for 20 years. Today, the collection of Miss Marts includes more than 7 thousand banana labels from different countries. Becky is not alone in her passion for these stickers. She meets her fellow banana label collectors at themed conferences around the world.

9. Erasers for every taste

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8. There are never too many balls

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7. ABC truths

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6. Do not disturb!

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5. Seafood

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4. Loser's dream

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3. Ties for all occasions

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2. Penny to penny

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1. Down collection

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There are an incredible number of the strangest collections in the world. Eccentrics do not get tired of proving that you can collect anything. Someone carefully stores tea bags or toilet lids, and in someone's collection there was a place for a couple of planes. It does not matter what a person collects, the main thing is that it brings him joy.

Loved collecting postcards, stamps, or chewing gum inserts? Surely these hobbies have passed over the years ... But these people have devoted more than one year to their hobby - collecting, and this is not the limit.

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1. Dimitris Pistiolas from Athens owns the largest collection of video cameras - in total he has 937 models of vintage and modern projectors. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

2. Since 2003, Chinese collector Wang Guohua has been collecting cigarette packs, some of which he keeps in his room in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. The collection includes 30,000 cigarette packs from more than 100 companies from 10 countries. (AP)

3. Lisa Courtney's Pokémon collection hit the . There are 12,113 toys in the collection. (Paul Michael Hughes / Guinness World Records / PRNewsFoto)

4. The basement of Ron Hood, who lives in Leviston, Maine, has been converted into a real PEZ candy museum. He now has over 3,000 PEZ toys in his collection, although he considers them “small.” (Daryn Slover/Lewiston Sun Journal/AP)

5. Farmer Heinrich Kath displays some of his 20,000 beer mugs in Cuxhaven. He does not drink beer himself, but he has been collecting mugs since 1997. Heinrich's brother collects replica watches, but he is still a long way from his relative's collection. (Joerg Sarbach / AP)

6. Wally Hammer's collection of rubber ducks was not the largest in the world, although there is not a single duplicate duck in the collection. Her collection of 2,469 ducks was only a few hundred short of the world record set by one California woman. (Bob Holiday / The Pantagraph / AP)

7. The Guinness Book of Records recognized Pam Barker's collection of owls from Leeds as the largest in the world. She has 18,000 owls in her collection. (Russ Dillingham/The Sun Journal/AP)

8 Mary Ann Sell of Cincinnati owns a View-Master film collection of 40,000. (Mike Roemer / AP)

Incredible Facts

One of the ways to get into the Guinness Book of Records -collect what others do not need.

However, it is worth knowing that some places in the book are already taken. If you want to start collecting, there are a few items off the list, including umbrella cases, fossilized feces, and toy dinosaurs.

Chair collection

3,000 miniature chairs.

Buying doll-sized chairs on weekends has become a hobby for Barbara Hartsfield. For 10 years, until 2008, she managed to collect a collection of small chairs, which has more than 3,000 items. Today, in her museum in Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA, you can find bottled chairs, feeding chairs, and chairs made from toothpicks and clothespins.

Collection of toys (photo)

571 Daleks (extraterrestrial mutants from Doctor Who).

Surprisingly, the Englishman Rob Hull is not a fan of the Doctor Who series, he only likes to collect Daleks - semi-cyborgs and Doctor Who's main opponents who wanted to conquer the Universe.

Rob began collecting action figures as a child when his parents refused to buy him a Dalek toy. At the age of 29, he bought his first figurine himself. In 2011, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records for his collection of 571 Daleks. the only person who was annoyed by his hobby was his wife.

Strange Collection

730 umbrella covers.

Of course, Nancy Hoffman did not become the owner of all umbrella covers in the world, but this did not prevent her from getting into the Guinness Book of Records. In 2012, her collection included more than 730 cases. Since 1996, she has been adding to the collection at her Umbrella Cover Museum, which is open to everyone to visit Peaks Island, Portland, Maine, USA. She has covers from 50 countries in her collection, and she always greets her guests with a live performance on the accordion of the song "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" (Let a smile be your umbrella).

home collection

3,700 merchandise from eateries.

Like many Americans, Harry Sperl loves hamburgers. But the Daytona Beach, Florida resident has gone beyond ordering his favorite snack and has spent the past 26 years adding to his collection of diner-related paraphernalia. Today, his collections include more than 3,700 items.

For his passion, he was nicknamed Hamburger Harry. It all started when Harry decided to sell one vintage tray that was used in a diner for motorists. To do this, he decided to purchase some plastic hamburgers to decorate his tray and increase his chances of selling it. Then he began to buy more and more various items related to eateries, and even later they began to simply give him such items as gifts.

He calls his friends and fans "hamburger helpers". Today it can be found in the Guinness Book of Records. His collection has everything from a hamburger-shaped waterbed to a Harley Davidson hamburger-shaped motorcycle. Soon he plans to open a museum in the form of a double cheeseburger.

Dinosaur collection

5,000 toy dinosaurs.

Randy Knol's collections will envy any 5- summer child. Randy started collecting toys after he was given a set of Flintstones (characters of a well-known American cartoon) for Christmas, which included a toy dinosaur. Today, even he himself does not know how many dinosaurs he has in his collection. According to him, she numbers five and six thousand, and they are all stacked in boxes, bags and food containers placed throughout the house.

Guinness World Records has yet to verify the exact number of toys, but Randy said he knew a couple of people who had a richer collection, "but they are no longer alive."

Plate collection

11,570 DO NOT DISTURB signs.

Some people who travel a lot tend to buy souvenirs as a keepsake. These can be T-shirts, magnets or key chains with a picture of the place they have visited. But in Rainer Weichert's case, it's the Do Not Disturb signs he brings to his home in Germany after another trip.

In 2014, his collection included more than 11,570 tablets from various hotels, cruise ships and aircraft. All tablets were collected from 188 countries of the world. He considers 2 tablets to be the most valuable: one was part of the Olympic village in 1936, during the Olympics in Berlin, and the other from the Canadian General Brock Hotel, which is over 100 years old.

Collection of toys

14,500 bistro toys.

Growing up in the Philippines, Percival R. Lugue took great care of his toys. When he grew up, his thrift did not go away. Today he owns the largest collection of toys purchased from restaurants. fast food. He has more than 14,500 toys in his collection, which allowed him to get into the Guinness Book of Records in 2014. He considers McDonald's 1999 Inspector Gadget, 1987 Popeye the Sailor, and a set of Friends from the Philippine bistro chain Jollibee to be his most prized toys.

Unusual collections

1,277 fossilized excrement.

George Frandsen is the Indiana Jones of excrement. Today, he has over 1,277 pieces of coprolite (the scientific name for fossilized excrement) in his collection. In 2016, he temporarily donated his collection to the South Florida Museum. The collection contains specimens from 8 countries. Among them is a 2 kg coprolite of a prehistoric crocodile.

The most unusual collections

137 traffic cones.

The obsession with traffic cones began with David Morgan from the UK when he started working for Oxford Plastic Systems, the country's largest manufacturer of traffic cones.

In 1986, Oxford Plastic Systems, a competitor, accused her of copying one of the designs. traffic cone, so Morgan had to look for the same cone to prove that the design was not new, which means the company did not copy anything. After this incident, he developed a desire to collect cones.

675 back scratchers.

If you visit the dermatology clinic where Manfred S. Rothstein works, you can view the world's largest collection of back scratchers for free. In 2008, according to the Guinness Book of Records, the doctor had 675 of these useful tools in his collection.

Hundreds of combs are hung along the corridors and in the clinic's offices. Among them, you can find an alligator-paw comb, or a comb made from buffalo ribs. It also has electric combs made in the 1900s.

pokemon collection

16,000 Pokémon.

most large collection of toy Pokémon boasts 26-year-old Lisa Courtney. Today, the collection has more than 16,000 items of these fairy creatures. She started collecting Pokémon when she was 17 and has been in the Guinness World Records since 2009, when she had just over 12,000 toys. According to the girl, every day she spends about 7 hours looking for new Pokemon models.

Collection of vinyl records

6,000,000 vinyl records.

Wealthy Brazilian businessman Zero Freitas has been collecting vinyl records. He likes to travel all over the world and buy records from the most famous collectors.

The 62-year-old businessman even hired international scouts who buy for him from New York, Mexico City, South Africa, Nigeria and Cairo, thousands of records on his behalf, after which they are sent to him in Brazil.

Since the businessman was well aware that the collection was meaningless if people could not see it, he decided to found a non-profit musical organization called Emporium. It will play the role of a music library. It is also worth noting that the businessman decided to digitize part of his collection, as great amount music, especially Brazilian, survived only on vinyl records.

Collections of dolls (photo)

300 hyper-realistic dolls.

The author of such an unusual collection is Marilyn Mansfield (Marilyn Mansfield) from Staten Island, New York, USA. It took her tens of thousands of dollars and a huge amount of time to become the owner of more than 300 dolls that differ high level realism. All the rooms in her house are literally filled with dolls. Moreover, she takes care of each doll as if it were her own child.

In her thirties, she loves to take dolls out for walks, feed them, and babysit them. The husband supports his wife and even decided to build a new room for her beloved dolls.

850 models of fire trucks.

Nail Ilyasov from Ufa, who holds the post of colonel of internal affairs, boasts an amazing collection. In addition to domestic cars, Nail has many foreign ones.

The collection may get into the Guinness Book of Records, but a few cars still need to be picked up so that their number reaches 1,000 units. After that, you can safely apply to the Book.

Nail Ilyasov himself said that he began to assemble cars by pure chance, when his wife gave him a Moskvich model.

A person's tendency to collect sometimes provokes him to collect the most unexpected things and objects with which he gradually surrounds himself. Sometimes unusual collections quickly cease to exist due to an acute shortage of exhibits. But those that continue to exist, despite all the difficulties, become real legends.

One of the unique collections belongs to a Belgian named Ga van Keer, who lives in Brussels. During his life, he collected more than four thousand passports and replacing them or identical documents from 130 countries of the world. The oldest item in his collection dates back to 1615 and is a genuine historical rarity that adorns the collection.

Another example of an unusual collection is the collection of Darren Haacke from Australia. His collection was born relatively recently in 1993 and began with a small decal. Over the years of replenishment of the collection, the number of exhibits in it has almost reached 280,000 pieces.

An interesting collection is Yakov Yosipov, who collected more than 14,000 used bus tickets. Not at first glance in his collection you can find many identical exhibits, but this is what is of particular interest - he keeps those tickets that are at least somewhat different from the rest. It should also be noted here that collections of this kind very often do not even require special efforts, it is enough just to go to work every day in the morning and in the evening.

Whiskey collections belonging to two people living on different continents can be considered very impressive and interesting. One of them is Giuseppe Begnoni from Bologna, Italy. He inherited his collection from Edoardo Giaccone, whose collection at the time of his death in 1997 amounted to 5502 unopened bottles of whiskey of various varieties, among which bourbon and Irish whiskey became a special pride. Another, no less notable collector of this drink is Clive Vidiz, president of the Brazilian Association of Whiskey Collectors. He owns more than two and a half thousand full and completely different bottles of Scotch whiskey. His collection is kept in the Museum of São Paulo, Brazil.

It is difficult to imagine that sometimes the most simple items, surrounding a person, become an object of collecting. But Angelika Unfergau from Germany is ready to argue with this. She chose to collect ballpoint pens and in less than ten years has collected nearly 200,000 unique exhibits from 137 countries. According to Angelika herself, she is simply shocked and fascinated by the variety of their shapes and colors. It should be noted that the cost of the most expensive exhibit was 500 euros.

fans legendary film Star Wars is familiar with the Jason Joyner collection from London. As the special effects expert on the set of this legendary epic, he couldn't help but want to collect toys and other items that are directly or indirectly related to the movie cycle. The decoration of this collection are the original models of robots C-3RO, R-2D-2, as well as the costume of Darth Vader, which were used in the filming of the first three episodes of the film.

One of the most unusual collections was brought together by the French winemaker Michel Pont - more than a hundred jet fighters. In his collection you can find aircraft of various eras from around the world, ranging from British Vampires to Russian MiGs. It should be noted that Pon's passion for fighters arose only in 1986, and before that he collected motorcycles and cars with particular passion, there are more than five hundred of them in his collection.

The collection of lawn mowers that Andrew Hall and Michael Duck from the UK may also find interesting. They managed to collect 680 different models of this garden equipment.

And the collection of adhesive plasters from Brian Weiner is generally able to amaze the imagination. It is difficult to even imagine that this simple first aid item can be performed in various color scheme, styles, shapes and sizes. Brian managed to collect 3750 unused exhibits.

But more than others, one eccentric American turned out to be able to hit, whose name, unfortunately, is unknown. He collects snowballs, keeping them in special refrigerators. For example, one of the most interesting exhibits is a snowball made during the heaviest snowfall. But most collectibles are handmade famous people. Sometimes the collector arranges birthdays for his exhibits. At these events, guests dress up in all white, and the host treats them exclusively with white dishes.

This is only a small part of the collections that amaze the imagination. In fact, many of us ourselves are collectors of strange objects, sometimes without even thinking about it. But if you think about it, each can be attributed to the section of amazing collectibles.

People love to collect different things. Children collect stamps, toys, chips and more. But over time, everything changes. Some stop doing it, and some start from more serious and unusual things. For many of them, this becomes the meaning of their whole life. This article presents the 10 most amazing collections.

• A Belgian named Celine Cornet is very passionate about her collection, which consists of 2,200 toy pandas. In the late 1970s, her husband brought back from a business trip a souvenir in the form of a panda, which became the first copy in the woman's huge collection.
• Who doesn't love sauces? Definitely not Vic Klinko. If big lovers of sauces keep up to 20 different bottles in the refrigerator, then Vik has already collected 6 thousand species. He has been collecting them for 17 years now. Thanks to his work in the restaurant, he regularly learns about new products and immediately buys them.

  

• Little Harry Burrows, who is not even ten years old, loves vacuum cleaners. He managed to collect more than 40 different models. It all started with early childhood- when Harry could not fall asleep, the parents turned on the vacuum cleaner, which contributed to the rapid falling asleep of the child. He buys rare models of vacuum cleaners with his pocket money.

  

• The Gibbins family regularly replenishes their collection of sex dolls, the number of which has exceeded 240. Such dolls attracted my husband as a child, and even then he realized that he wanted to collect a huge collection. He bought his first unusual doll for $4,000. It was not easy for the wife to come to terms with her husband's passion, but still had to. Over the course of their lives, they spent about $160,000 on this collection.

  

• Barker Graham boasts a very unusual collection of navel guns. He began to collect it in his youth, when he became interested in how much cannon can be collected from the navel in 30 years of life. He has been collecting it for 26 years. He replenishes the collection daily before going to the shower. It is worth noting that not so long ago, one of the museums acquired the rights to the Barker collection for a lot of money.
• Barry Chappel always dreamed of quitting smoking, and one day he decided to try to overcome the habit with the help of nicotine chewing gum. While on the plane, Barry didn't have the opportunity to throw away the gum, and at that moment he wanted to collect one big gum from hundreds of small ones. For 6 years of fighting smoking, he managed to collect a huge ball of chewing gum, reaching one meter in diameter.

  

• Little Hannah Walker, who is only 7 years old, collects erasers. Her aunt gave her over 1,500 different erasers, which started her collecting. The cost of all erasers is more than two thousand pounds.

  

• A Chinese man named Jian Yang collects children's dolls. His collection consists of 9 thousand different dolls that many girls would like to receive.

  

• Fan " Star Wars"collected more than 300 thousand things related to this series of films. Moreover, he even discovered own museum, which exhibited the most outstanding items. However, this museum is not popular.
• Belgian Yvvet Dardenne collects various iron boxes. Many of them are associated with significant events in the world. On this moment she collected almost 60 thousand kinds of boxes.

  

People know how to surprise each other. This is especially true for different collections. The choice of an item for collecting is determined by the character and interests of the person. As a rule, people begin to collect the first collections in childhood, which in the future sometimes becomes an integral part of their adult life.