1)- HAMBURGER ITEMS
Harry Sperl aka Hamburger Harry has the world’s largest collection of hamburger themed items. This collection, which started by chance 26 years ago, has reached 3,724 pieces. Harry is literally a Burger King!
2)- TRAFFIC CONES
David Morgan, director of a plastics company, has been collecting traffic cones since 1986. With 500 traffic cones, Morgan owns two-thirds of the cone types ever produced.
3)- BACK-SCRATCHERS
Manfred S. Rothstein, a dermatologist, collected 675 backscratchers from 71 countries and made them into collections. Rothstein, who has been collecting since the 70’s, seems to have an itchy back for a long time.
4)- DO NOT DISTURB SIGNS
Edoardo Flores, an Italian civil servant, was traveling frequently in the 90’s and started collecting signs as souvenirs. Currently, Flores has 15,000 signs.
5)- AIR SICKNESS BAGS
A staggering number of people collect these bags. The record holder is Niek Vermeulen, who has collected 6,290 vomit bags.
6)- ABC NICOTINE GUMBALL
First of all, for those who will ask what ABC is, let’s say “Already Been Chewed”. The creator of this was Barry Chappell, who made a giant ball out of 95,200 chewed nicotine gum. How many packs of cigarettes are considered to be smoked?
7)- CHICKEN ITEMS
Joann and Cecil Dixon have been collecting chicken items for nearly 40 years. They hold the world record with their collections of 6.505 pieces.
8)- NAILS
78-year-old collector Richard Jones, a retired carpenter, has been collecting nails for 50 years from countries he has been to. He exhibits the 3,000 nails that he collected in special frames.
9)- MILK BOTTLES
33-year-old ex-milkman Paul Luke has been collecting milk bottles since he was 9 years old. Luke, who has very old bottles in his collection, now has 15,000 bottles.
10)- ERASERS
Petra Engels, who started collecting erasers at the age of 9, has the world’s largest eraser collection. Engels, who has 19,571 erasers from 112 different countries, displays the erasers in 22 glass showcases and a giant cabinet.
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