Millions of people around the world are passionate about collecting. Numismatists collect coins, falerists collect awards, and philatelists collect stamps. But there are also people who like to make their collections from unusual things.
For example, Prague resident P. Gaini has keys, lighters, coins, boots, etc. in his collection. The thing is that in his youth he was a hockey referee and collected objects that spectators threw at him from the stands.
In 1957, Danish farmer Hansen opened the world's first feather museum. His hobby began in childhood, when he collected feathers of poultry. Later, Hansen began to conduct extensive correspondence and unusual exhibits were sent to him from all over the world.
A. I. Smirnov worked as a teacher at the school for more than 30 years. During this time he managed to collect unique collection... school cheat sheets. More than 6,000 exhibits are carefully stored in collector's albums.
A collector from Novosibirsk, A. Lutkovsky, collects newspapers that have the word “truth” in their titles. The collection contains more than 800 newspapers from different countries peace.
Vietnamese man Wang Guohua collected more than 30,000 unopened cigarette packs. They are pasted on the walls and completely replace wallpaper.
Becky Marts from the USA collects labels stuck on bananas. There are more than 7,000 copies in the collection.
One Irish policeman collects 50 gram bottles of whiskey. He has about 3,000 of them.
But this policeman’s fellow countryman, the famous Irish football player John Aldridge, collected football balls. But not every ball could end up in John’s collection, but only those with which he scored at least three goals in a game. Aldridge scored a lot, so the collection turned out to be impressive.
Angelika Unfergau from Germany has collected a collection of 168,700 ballpoint pens from 137 countries. The most valuable exhibit costs more than $500.
Betina Dorfman, from the German city of Dusseldorf, has more than 6,000 Barbie dolls in her apartment.
Dentist Kolpakov from Michigan collected a collection of 1800 tubes of toothpaste. Collector John Reznikoff from Connecticut carefully preserves celebrity hair. His collection includes the locks of Abraham Lincoln, Albert Einstein and Marilyn Monroe. The authenticity of the hair is documented.
Englishman Chris Gower is the owner of a substantial collection of handcuffs. His collection includes 530 copies from different times and countries.
Norwegian resident Kari Hansen has been collecting everything that washed ashore for many years. sea waves. The main decoration of the collection is a bronze necklace, which is about 2,500 years old.
Vic Klinko lives in Arizona, he collects various hot sauces. His collection includes about 6 thousand different jars and bottles from all over the world. The crown jewel of his collection is a rarity called Blair's 16 Million Reserve - the hottest sauce in the world!
Murderobilia is a collection of various things related to murder. It sounds strange, but there are quite a lot of people in the world who are prone to collecting objects related to murder that belonged to various psychopathic maniacs. People collect everything from cars to handkerchiefs of killers and their victims. In one of the collections there is even a picture drawn by one of the most vile murderers in history - Murderobilia sometimes takes the strangest forms.
The Burnt Food Museum was founded in 1980 by a person named Deborah Henson-Conant and is located in Arlington, Massachusetts, USA. The collection is huge - within the walls of the museum there are 49 thousand burnt and completely burnt (to the point of charring) exhibits. There are steaks and pies, and overcooked fillets of elephant, pig and fish, the list goes on and on.
A native of Belgium, Celine Cornet, collected 2,200 panda figurines. Celine began collecting them together with her husband in 1987, when her husband brought her the first panda - a souvenir from Italy. Celine bequeathed all the toys to homeless children after her death.
Boeing scientist Chris Reids is the owner of the largest collection of Super Soaker water guns. This company appeared on the market in 1989 and quickly crushed its competitors in the wet business. Chris has 340 models from this company in his collection, and one of them has the autograph of Super Soaker founder Lonnie Johnson.
March 22nd, 2016 , 08:13 pm
Good day.
Children often collect collections of stamps, dolls, cars, chips, cards, but everything remains in the past. Only some people, with age, turn collecting into the meaning of life and continue to do it all their lives.
Let's look at the most unusual collections that simply amaze...
1. Pandas
Celine Cornet (Celine Cornet), a resident of the Belgian town of Accourt, stands in the middle of her collection of 2,200 various little things that have at least some relation to the toy panda bear.
Celine and her husband Andre began their collection in 1978, when he gave her a souvenir he bought in Italy. Celine says that in the future she plans to bequeath her pandas to sick children.
2. Sauces
U Vika Klinko the world's largest collection of sauces, which numbers 6 thousand bottles. Even gourmets won’t find more than 20 in their refrigerator. various types sauce.
Vic has been collecting the collection for 17 years and is constantly adding new species. He works in a restaurant "Four Seasons", which helps him keep up with new products and replenish his shelf of sauces.
3. Vacuum cleaners
A nine year old boy Harry Burroughs (Harry Burrows) at all unusual hobby for his age. He is an avid fan of vacuum cleaners and boasts 40 different models.
When the parents couldn't put the child to bed, they turned on the vacuum cleaner and Harry immediately went to bed. He received his first vacuum cleaner, named Henry, as a gift when he turned four.
A schoolboy collects pocket money from his parents and goes in search of a rare model of vacuum cleaner.
4. Sex dolls
Lizzie and Bob Gibbins who are already over 50, collect unusual sex dolls. Bob claims that rare and unformal dolls attracted his attention in early childhood.
One day Bob came across a forum on the Internet where they were discussing silicone dolls. At that moment, he realized that these sex dolls and mannequins were what he had been looking for for a long time.
The first in his collection was a doll "Beverly", which he purchased for 4 thousand dollars. Now the family’s collection includes about 240 types of dolls, which are constantly being replenished with new models. The total cost exceeds 160 thousand dollars. 
5. Navel fluff
For 26 years, a resident of the Australian city of Perth Graham Barker (Graham Barker) collected a record 22.1 grams of umbilical fluff , no matter how unusual it may sound. And the idea came suddenly. He just wondered how many pellets and fluff a human belly button could collect in 20 or 30 years.
Graham devotes just a few minutes a day to his hobby and collects valuable material before heading to the bath. Just recently, one of the museums bought Graham's collection for a substantial sum of money.
6. Nicotine gum
The owner of the world's largest nicotine gum ball - Barry Chappell. The man had a goal in life - to quit smoking. When Barry was on a plane and couldn't find a bin to dispose of his nicotine gum, he simply rolled it into a small ball. At that second, an interesting idea came to mind - to collect all the chewing gum into one ball. For 6 long years he quit smoking, collecting nicotine gum into a large ball.
7. Erasers
Cost of a seven-year eraser collection Hana Walker reaches 2 thousand pounds. One day, a schoolgirl told her aunt Allison that she wanted to have a lot of erasers, who donated her collection of 1,500 copies. Some erasers come in a wrapper and have a manufacturing date of 1986 on the packaging.
8. Dolls
It turns out that not only little girls collect dolls, but also mature, wealthy men. Jian Yang(Jian Yang) from Singaporecollected 6 thousand Barbie dolls and 3 thousand other types, which filled his entire terraced house.
9. Items from " Star Wars"
Steve Sansweet(Steve Sansweet) from California is a fan "Star Wars". He managed to collect about 300 thousand various items, which are associated with the legendary film.
Impressive and priceless exhibits for Steve are displayed in his own museum "Ranch Obi-Wan" in California, but it does not generate significant income.
10. Santa Clauses
Santa Claus collection Sharon Badgley so large (6,000) that it took her three weeks to get everyone together. 
11. Tin boxes
Yvette Dardenne (Yvette Dardenne) collected more than 56,700 tin boxes from her home in eastern Belgium. The boxes belonging to this 76-year-old lady are not just containers: some display major world events, while others are dedicated to the strangest situations and personalities of the 20th century.
12. Owls
The Guinness Book of Records recognized the collection of owls Pam Barker from Leeds the largest in the world. There are 18,000 owls in her collection.
13. Pencils
Tushar Lakhanpal, a 15-year-old Indian boy living in New Delhi, claims to have a collection of more than 14,000 pencils different forms and sizes. The real record, which, for unclear reasons, was not registered in the Guinness Book of Records, includes colored and simple pencils from over 40 different countries. Among them there are even two pencils that, at one time, belonged to Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain. The young man did not stop there, and continues to expand his collection, hoping, after all, to get into the Guinness Book of Records. 
14. Pokemon
Pokemon collection Lisa Courtney entered the Guinness Book of Records. There are 12,113 toys in the collection.
15. Golf balls
Golf fan Dick Falensky (Dick Falenski) is the owner of more than 36,000 golf balls, which he stores in his home on the appropriately named street "Right way"
(Fairway Drive) in Pennsylvania, USA.
The golfer began his collection 50 years ago and even keeps balls that belonged to the former US President Bill Clinton and basketball player Michael Jordan.
16. Royal trinkets
Margaret Tyler(Margaret Tyler) has amassed the country's largest collection of royal memorabilia. 10,000 different items include mannequins of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge life size, as well as Princess Diana's stained glass window.
The royalist converted her home in London's Wembley into a boarding house fit for a queen.
17. Yo-yo
Lucky J. Meisenheimer (Lucky J. Meisenheimer) collected a collection of yo-yo toys of more than 10,000 pieces - this is reflected in the Guinness Book of Records.
The collector from Orlando, Florida even wrote a book dedicated to the subject of his obsession: "A Collectors' Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos".
18. Seats
Retired plumber Barney Smith (Barney Smith) collected a collection of toilet seats and lids in the amount of 1,100 pieces. It took 40 years to create this collection. Each of its exhibits is not without a certain artistic value. Barney keeps his collection in his garage in San Antonio, Texas, which also doubles as a museum.
19. Ballpoint pens
Angelika Unverhau (Angelika Unverhau) from the city of Dinslaken, Germany, collected more than 220,000 ballpoint pens (not counting duplicates) from 146 countries. She had been collecting unusual pens since childhood, but decided to take her hobby more seriously in 1990. She founded a club for ballpoint pen collectors who meet twice a year to exchange pens.
20. Potato chips
Myrtle Young (Myrtle Young) started collecting potato chips, while working as a chip inspector for Seyfert Foods in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1987, when she rescued a chip shaped like a man's face from a conveyor belt. From that moment on, she began to choose chips that reminded her of something or someone.
At the time of her death in August 2014, she reportedly had between 250 and 300 chips in her collection.
21. Toothpaste tubes
World record for "most large collection empty toothpaste tubes" belongs to Ronan Jordan (Ronan Jordan) from New York, USA. He became the record holder in October 2013. Mr. Jordan's collection included 3,750 empty toothpaste tubes from various companies around the world.
22. Super Mario
With 5,441 unique items, the largest collection of Super Mario memorabilia belongs to this collection. Mitsugi Kikai (Mitsugu Kikai) from Japan. The items were counted in Tokyo in July 2010.
23. Superman
Herbert Chavez (Herbert Chavez) of Calamba, Laguna Province, Philippines, boasts a collection of Superman memorabilia consisting of nearly 1,300 items. Herbert even moved a series plastic surgery on your nose, cheeks, lips and chin, as well as your thighs. He even changed his skin tone to look more like his idol.
24. Water pistols
A scientist working for Boeing named Chris Reid (Chris Reid) has the largest collection of water pistols "Super Soaker" in the world. The company's Super Soaker water pistol was first introduced in 1989 and quickly displaced other water pistols of its time from the market. Reid has a total of 340 Super Soaker water pistols, his first water pistol was a pistol autographed by the inventor of the Super Soaker. Lonnie Johnson(Lonnie Johnson).
25. Soviet calculators
Sergey Frolov has a fantastic collection of over 150 Soviet-made calculators, as well as antique computers, clocks and slide rules. Frolov is even trying to raise enough money to open a museum of antique Soviet electronics.
26. Penises
Sigurdur Hjartarson (Sigurdur Hjartarson), former teacher from Iceland, has weird hobby collecting penises of various animal species. His collection includes a total of approximately 300 penises from various animal species, including whales, seals or land mammals. Hjartarson is adamant that his museum is a scientific and cultural endeavor that has no cause for disgust and that there is nothing erotic or pornographic in its collection.
27. Hamburgers
One day, Matt Mulgram (Matt Malgram) bought two hamburgers from a popular fast food joint. He ate one and put the other in the refrigerator. A year later, he discovered that it smelled and tasted exactly the same. Fascinated, he started a collection of hamburgers, labeling them by year.
28. Handcuffs
Joseph Locher (Joseph Lauher) has the largest collection of handcuffs (with an emphasis on antique handcuffs), shackles, wire cutters and thumb cuffs on the Internet.
29. Mermaid tails
Eric Ducharme (Eric Ducharme) from Florida has been fascinated by mermaids since he was a child. At the age of 16, he staged his first show, swimming as the Merman Prince in the Little Mermaid Show. Vicky Wachee Springs(Weeki Wachee Springs’ Little Mermaid show) in 2006.
Today, in addition to collecting tails, Ducharme also runs his own business called "Mertailor", which produces tails to order.
30. On-board hygiene bags
The Air Sickness Bags Virtual Museum is a collection of approximately 2,300 airborne hygiene bags collected by the museum's creator Stephen Jay Silberberg (Steven J Silberberg).
The museum is exclusively online, with photographs of various on-board hygiene bags. However, the actual packages are kept at Silberberg's home. Apart from on-board hygiene bags, the website also offers a look at a collection of bus, sea and even space hygiene bags.
As children, many people were interested in collecting. Some people collected stamps or calendars, others were more interested in exchanging coins from different countries with friends, or carefully arranging miniature figurines of their favorite animals, cars, and dolls on a shelf. 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 completely traditional hobbies, and there are people in the world who at some point decided to collect rather unusual things. Many of them have succeeded in this matter, but only 10 of the most unusual collections are presented here.
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 children. But with age, interest in them goes away on its own. But for American Becky Marts, this childhood hobby has grown into an adult hobby, which she has been doing for 20 years. Today, the Miss Marts collection includes more than 7 thousand banana labels from different countries. Becky is not alone in her passion for such stickers. She meets like-minded people in collecting banana labels at thematic conferences around the world.
9. Erasers for every taste
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Once you enter a stationery store, you can become a respected collector with worldwide popularity. This happened to young Hannah Walker from Great Britain. A girl enthusiastically collects fancy-shaped school erasers. It must be said that this hobby was inherited by a 7-year-old English girl. As a child, her aunt also selflessly collected erasers. Now she happily handed over her entire collection to her niece. As a result, Hannah Walker collected 1,500 erasers, many of which were born much earlier than the youngest collector. Thus, the decoration of the collection is considered to be elastic bands with the symbols of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. According to conservative estimates, the total cost of all exhibits is 2,000 pounds, which is a fortune for a seven-year-old collector. But there are other unusual collections of these stationery items in the world. Thus, Russian woman Yulia Kokina collected about 1000 erasers from all over the world.
8. You can never have too many balls
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In 2015 his collection celebrates half-century anniversary. Since 1965, Dick Falensky from Pennsylvania (USA) has been collecting golf balls. It must be said that the 74-year-old collector was very successful in this matter. To date, he has collected more than 36 thousand exhibits. Among them are balls that previously belonged to Bill Clinton and Michael Jordan - iconic personalities for every American. There are also real rarities on this list, the age of which reaches up to 200 years. To organize the collection, Dick uses furniture made according to his individual drawings. And even despite this, many balls are simply dumped into spacious baskets. The American's house is located on True Path Street, and for the purposeful Mr. Falensky this name is very symbolic. After all, he is confidently moving towards expanding his already extensive collection, dreaming of collecting 50 thousand balls.
7. Basic truths
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Polish Szajnowski family long years collects primers. To date, they have already managed to collect 260 books in 30 languages. But Latvian Juris Cibuls can boast of a much more significant collection. A teacher by profession, he was able to collect 7,300 primers and alphabet books. Its collection includes books from more than 200 countries in 948 languages. Cibuls actively exhibits part of its grandiose collection. Thus, his primers became participants in 160 exhibitions, at which the collector himself met with the audience, talking about the most interesting exhibits. The man claims that using the alphabet you can not only learn a language, but also get to know the culture of a particular people. His authoritative opinion you can trust, because he began collecting primers back in student years. And in 1996, Cibuls himself became the author of a Latvian primer.
6. Do not disturb!
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With German methodicality, Reiner Weichert expanded his collection over the course of 25 years. In total, since 1990, the man has collected 11,570 “Do Not Disturb!” door signs. His collection includes artifacts from 188 countries that called for silence in various hotels, cruise ships and airplanes. With such a great selection of signs at hand, Rayner doesn't have to worry about anyone disturbing his peace. It’s just that the unusual collection made Weichert famous, which means you can forget about silence. After all, great glory awaits him.
5. Seafood
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Some people add to their unusual collections without spending a penny. Thus, Kari Hansen from Norway carefully collects all the objects that she finds on the seashore. For more than 20 years, the waves have brought the most incredible exhibits to her collection. Kari loves to walk along the coast, looking closely at the sand. To tell the truth, for many years the collector did not come across any particularly valuable specimens. But one day she came across a bronze decoration in the shape of a horseshoe. At first the woman did not attach much importance to this, but very quickly the find glorified Trondenes, hometown Kari Hansen. The fact is that the necklace turned out to come from the Bronze Age, and its age is 2500 years. At the same time, the find was in excellent condition, but it did not become an adornment of the collection. According to the laws of the country, a valuable artifact is the property of the state. And that means its place is in the museum.
4. A student's dream
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Thanks to his students, physics teacher Alexander Smirnov has collected an interesting collection. Over 30 years of working as a school teacher, he accumulated more than 6,000 different crib sheets. Epochs changed, but students still sought to make their work easier. Each new generation has shown more and more ingenuity in this matter. The transformation of crib sheets can be traced by studying the collection of A.I. Smirnova. There are handwritten and printed exhibits disguised as an eraser or embedded in wrist watch. The most resourceful students managed to write several formulas with inside long false nails, and the boys wrote the necessary information on banknotes. And if at first the teacher’s vigilance was explained by pedagogical zeal, then over time the collector’s passion was added to it.
3. Ties for all occasions
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Most of the house of Englishman Tom Holmes is occupied by an unusual collection of clothes. We are talking about such an accessory of a men's suit as a tie. This hobby has scientific name– Grabatology. The namesake of the famous detective is not yet so famous on a global scale, but in his homeland his name has long been known. After all, in almost 80 years, which is exactly how long it took Holmes to create the collection, he collected 10,625 ties. The man is so popular in the UK that every year on his birthday he receives a gift in the mail from the Prime Minister himself. There is no need to guess about the contents of the parcel; of course, there is a new tie every time.
2. Penny by penny
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Despite his specific hobby, Yuri Babin from Novosibirsk cannot be accused of pettiness. Although he collects coins in denominations of 1 kopeck, the scale of the collection is amazing. Over the years, penny by penny, the pensioner has collected as much as 5 million rubles. At the same time, Babin’s capital has serious weight. His entire collection weighs 7.5 tons. The idea to collect change came to the man in 1998 after the default. At that time, Russian money depreciated significantly, and penny coins became absolutely useless. Yuri not only received coins in change or accidentally found them on the street, but also purposefully bought them in banks in whole packages of 4,000 pieces. A resident of Novosibirsk found a use for his collection in his home. Coins serve as decoration for walls and floors. And he spent several thousand on decorating his own clothes. Thus, a millionaire's jacket weighing about 6 kg was born. True, due to the abundance of metal decor, the fabric is completely invisible, and it looks more like chain mail. Babin shows the collection to everyone, inviting them on a tour of his home.
1. Down collection
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It is completely incomprehensible how Graham Barker came up with the idea of collecting umbilical fluff. But he spent 26 years of his life on this venture. The main source of the collection was Barker's own navel. Over more than a quarter of a century, a modest Australian librarian from Perth collected 22 grams of umbilical fluff. His unusual collection is very compactly housed in three small glass jars. This meeting was honored to be included in the Book of Records, but the main sensation was another event. The local museum became interested in the collection, offering Barker to buy the treasured cans of fluff. The collector immediately agreed, although he still prefers to remain silent about the amount of proceeds. In general, for some reason the topic of umbilical fluff worries many people on the Green Continent. Yes, Australian scientist Karl Kruzhelniki was awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in 2002 for research in this area. This comic award fell into the hands of the scientist after he established the nature of the occurrence of umbilical fluff. It turns out that this is a mixture of tissue microfibers and dead skin cells, which is formed as a result of friction of a hairy male belly against clothing. Well, sensational discovery, you can't say anything. But who knows, maybe this information will inspire someone to create a new unusual collection.
There are an incredible number of the strangest collections in the world. Eccentrics never tire of proving that you can collect anything. Some people carefully store tea bags or toilet lids, while others have room in their collection for a couple of airplanes. It doesn’t matter what a person collects, the main thing is that it brings him joy.
Incredible facts
One way to get into the Guinness Book of Records iscollect something that others don't 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 things you can consider eliminating from the list, including umbrella covers, fossilized feces, and toy dinosaurs.
Chair collection
3,000 miniature chairs.
Buying doll-sized chairs on the weekends has become a hobby for Barbara Hartsfield. Over the course of 10 years, until 2008, she managed to assemble a collection of small chairs, which totals more than 3,000 units. Today, in her museum in Stone Mountain, Georgia, USA, you can find bottle chairs, feeding chairs, and chairs made from toothpicks and clothespins.
Toy collection (photo)
571 Daleks (extraterrestrial mutants from the TV series Doctor Who).
Surprisingly, Englishman Rob Hull is not a fan of the Doctor Who series; he only likes to collect Daleks - half-cyborgs and the main opponents of Doctor Who, who wanted to conquer the Universe.
Rob began collecting action figures as a child when his parents refused to buy him a toy Dalek. At the age of 29, he bought his first figurine. In 2011, he entered the Guinness Book of World Records with 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 the umbrella covers in the world, but this did not stop her from getting into the Guinness Book of Records. In 2012, her collection consisted of more than 730 cases. Since 1996, she has been adding to the collection in her Umbrella Cover Museum, which is open to everyone who wants to visit Peaks Island, Portland, Maine, USA. Her collection includes cases from 50 countries, and she always greets her guests with a live accordion performance of the song “Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella.”
Home collection
3,700 units of snack bar paraphernalia.
Like many Americans, Harry Sperl loves hamburgers. But the Daytona Beach, Fla., resident has gone beyond just ordering his favorite snack—he's spent the last 26 years adding to his collection of diner paraphernalia. Today his collections number more than 3,700 items.
Because of his passion, he was nicknamed Hamburger Harry. It all started when Harry decided to sell one vintage tray that was used in a drive-in diner. 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 acquire more and more various goods related to snack bars, and even later they began to simply give him such goods as gifts.
He calls his friends and fans "hamburger helpers." Today it can be found in the Guinness Book of Records. His collection includes everything from a waterbed in the shape of a hamburger to a Harley Davidson motorcycle in the shape of the same hamburger. He plans to open a museum shaped like a double cheeseburger soon.
Dinosaur collection
5,000 toy dinosaurs.
Randy Knol's collection will be the envy of any 5-year-old summer child. Randy began collecting toys after he was given a set of Flintstones (famous American cartoon characters) 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, there are five and six thousand, all of which are stacked in boxes, bags and food containers placed throughout the house.
Experts from the Guinness Book of Records have yet to verify the exact number of toys, but, according to Randy, he knew a couple of people who had a richer collection, “but they are no longer alive.”
Collection of plaques
11,570 DO NOT DISTURB signs.
Some people who travel a lot tend to buy souvenirs as keepsakes. These could be T-shirts, magnets or keychains with a picture of the place they visited. But in the case of Rainer Weichert, these are “Do Not Disturb” signs, which he brings to his home in Germany after his next trip.
In 2014, his collection included more than 11,570 plaques from various hotels, cruise ships and aircraft. All signs were collected from 188 countries. He considers two plaques to be the most valuable: one was part of the Olympic village in 1936, during the Olympics in Berlin, and the other was from the Canadian General Brock Hotel, which is more than 100 years old.
Toy collection
14,500 bistro toys.
Growing up in the Philippines, Percival R. Lugue took great care of his toys. As he grew up, his thriftiness never went away. Today he is the owner of the largest collection of toys purchased from fast food restaurants. His collection includes more than 14,500 toys, which allowed him to get into the Guinness Book of Records in 2014. He considers the most valuable toys to be a 1999 Inspector Gadget bought at McDonald's, a 1987 Popeye the Sailor Man and a set of Friends from the Philippine bistro chain Jollibee.
Unusual collections
1,277 fossilized excrement.
George Frandsen can easily be called the Indiana Jones of excrement. Today, his collection includes more than 1,277 coprolite specimens (the scientific name for fossilized excrement). In 2016, he temporarily donated his collection to the South Florida Museum. The collection contains specimens from 8 countries. Among them is a 2-kilogram coprolite of a prehistoric crocodile.
The most unusual collections
137 traffic cones.
David Morgan's obsession with traffic cones began in the UK when he began working for Oxford Plastic Systems, the country's largest manufacturer of traffic cones.
In 1986, Oxford Plastic Systems was accused by a competitor of copying one of its traffic cone designs, so Morgan had to search for the same cone to prove that the design was not new and that the company had not copied 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 see 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 instruments in his collection.
Hundreds of scratchers are hung along the corridors and in the clinic’s offices. Among them you can find a scratcher with an alligator paw, or a scratcher made from buffalo ribs. It also has electric combs dating back to the 1900s.
Pokemon collection
16,000 Pokemon.
26-year-old Lisa Courtney boasts the largest collection of toy Pokemon. Today the collection contains more than 16,000 units of these fairy-tale creatures. She started collecting Pokémon when she was 17 years old and has been in the Guinness Book of World Records since 2009, when she had just over 12,000 toys. According to the girl, every day she spends about 7 hours searching for new Pokemon models.
Vinyl record collection
6,000,000 vinyl records.
Wealthy Brazilian businessman Zero Freitas has been collecting vinyl records almost his entire life. He loves to travel around the world and buy records from the most famous collectors.
The 62-year-old businessman even hired international scouts who shop for him from New York, Mexico City, South Africa, Nigeria and Cairo, thousands of records in his name, after which they send them to him in Brazil.
Since the businessman understood perfectly well that a collection has no meaning if people cannot 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, since a huge amount of music, especially Brazilian, was preserved only on vinyl records.
Doll collections (photo)
300 hyper-realistic dolls.
The author of such an unusual collection is 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, which are different high level realism. All the rooms in her house are literally filled with dolls. Moreover, she cares for each doll as if it were her own child.
At over thirty years old, she loves to take dolls for walks, feed them and nurse them. The husband supports his wife and even decided to build a new room for her favorite 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 also has many foreign ones.
The collection may be included in the Guinness Book of Records, but several cars still need to be obtained for their number to reach 1,000 units. After this, you can safely submit an application to the Book.
Nail Ilyasov himself said that he started collecting cars by pure chance, when his wife gave him a model of a Moskvich.
Every adult has his own interests and hobbies, so it is not surprising that many find joy in creating their own collections. Today, some collectors are even included in the Guinness Book of Records and surprise the entire population globe by the number of original and rare things that they store in their houses that look more like museums. Some people collect dolls, others collect things related to their favorite music or sports team, and someone - collectible figures which both adults and children will want to consider.
Panda lovers. It is very difficult to resist the cute and clumsy panda. Therefore, it is not surprising that there is a person who collects everything related to the toy panda. We are talking about Celine Cornet, who lives in Belgium. The woman and her husband began collecting her collection back in 1978, and during this time she has achieved considerable success, because now she has 2,200 items at her disposal, one way or another related to the toy panda.
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Young connoisseur of vacuum cleaners. Every home has a vacuum cleaner, because this household appliance makes cleaning quick and easy. But a nine-year-old boy named Harry Burrows went further, collecting a collection of 40 rare models of vacuum cleaners. The collector explains this unusual predilection by the fact that he was accustomed to this household appliance since infancy, because his parents turned on the vacuum cleaner in order to quickly put little Harry to bed. But by visiting the Funko Pop Russia website, you can purchase exclusive figurines of cartoon characters and build your own private collection.
Golf fan. Golf is a game for real aristocrats and wealthy people, so it is not surprising that thousands of people around the world are crazy about it. But Pennsylvania resident Dick Falsenki is the most famous golf fan, with 36,000 golf balls in his collection. Dick began collecting his unique collection 50 years ago and it is indeed very valuable, because it contains balls that previously belonged to former President Bill Clinton and the famous basketball player Michael Jordan. 
Other collectors are also registered in the Guinness Book of Records, for example, the seven-year-old girl Hana, during her short life, managed to collect a collection of erasers, which is now estimated at 2 thousand pounds sterling. And one American has the largest collection of yo-yos - he has more than 10 thousand of them. 
With German methodicality, Reiner Weichert expanded his collection over the course of 25 years. In total, since 1990, the man has collected 11,570 “Do Not Disturb!” door signs. His collection includes artifacts from 188 countries that called for silence in various hotels, cruise ships and airplanes. With such a great selection of signs at hand, Rayner doesn't have to worry about anyone disturbing his peace. It’s just that the unusual collection made Weichert famous, which means you can forget about silence. After all, great glory awaits him.
