The craziest collectors and their collections from all over the world. A huge collection of model cars was found in a house donated to a Protestant church. The largest collection in the world.

As children we collected candy wrappers and corks, now we collect magnets from different countries, and even reproductions of French impressionists.

And if for some collecting is just a hobby, for others it is a real passion, manifested in the most bizarre forms. We can say that this is a unique form of game for all ages. Everyone just has their own toys.

The largest men's collections

Hassanal Bolkiah - the Sultan of Brunei - has the world's largest collection of cars. Its fleet consists of about 5,000 cars. At the same time, a significant part is made up of rare Ferrari models - among them there are single copies. The collector pays great attention to the brands Rolls-Royce (160 pieces in total), Bentley and Mercedes. In addition, the Sultan is crazy about racing cars and can boast of Formula 1 winning cars.

Italian David Blay collects Rolex watches. His collection is notable not because it is the largest, but because it is the most expensive: the rarest and most luxurious specimens are collected here. The pearl of the collection is the Stelline Oyster Perpetual Chronometer model, the approximate cost of which is estimated at 320 thousand dollars. Another standout model is the Paul Newman Cosmograph Daytona, which has a white dial, gold numerals and black subdials. If desired, you can get from 58 to 87 thousand dollars for it.

The largest collection of Scotch whiskey belongs to the Brazilian Clave Vidis - a total of 3,384 bottles collected over 35 years. Connoisseurs call this collection “priceless.” It presents all types of whiskey - from the most popular to the rarest. Among the most rare examples is the Strathmill bottle, released in honor of the centenary of the Speyside distillery. A total of eighty bottles of this whiskey were produced. They were offered to buy only to a narrow circle of sophisticated people, including several heads of state.

The largest historical collections

Philip Ferrari (descendant of the Duke of Cagliar, a great German politician) was one of the greatest collectors of all time. His stamp collection was the largest in the world and included all philatelic rarities known at that time. And this record has not yet been broken. Philip was called the King of Postage Stamps - the entire collection was presented in the form of 8058 large lots, some of which themselves contained more than 10 thousand stamps. After the Duke's death, the proceeds from the sale of the collection amounted to over 23 million French francs. It is noteworthy that he died of a heart attack, which occurred after an unsuccessful trip to buy a rare Swiss stamp.

The Russian Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich, despite his frailty, was a passionate collector of bladed weapons, which served as the basis for the creation of the Armory Chamber in Moscow. And his famous son Peter I became the first Russian numismatist. This hobby helped to carry out a very successful monetary reform in Russia. However, Peter collected not only coins, but also weapons, rare minerals and art objects. During his lifetime, he collected an amazing collection of “The Sovereign’s Cabinet,” which was subsequently transferred to the first Russian museum, the Kunstkamera, formed by his decree.

Extravagant collections

The collection of German farmer Heinrich Katha includes about 20,000 beer mugs (and he himself, mind you, does not drink). Chinese Wang Guohua is pleased to show off the 30,000 cigarette packs he has collected in ten countries around the world. Frenchman Michel Pont, a winemaker by profession, owns 100 jet fighters, ranging from English Vampires to Russian MiGs.

Famous collectors also included: German Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck, who collected thermometers; our beloved Yuri Gagarin, who collected - what do you think? - cacti(!); the writer Georges Simenon, who bought various telephone directories, from which, by the way, he drew names for the heroes of his works; the sinister Cardinal Richelieu is a passionate lover of smoking pipes.

Among his contemporaries, Sir Elton John stands out - he has more than 20 thousand glasses in his collection, Barack Obama, who collects paintings by African-American abstract artists, and the great fashion designer Gianni Versace, who is partial to antiques. His mansion, for example, contained two 19th-century cherry-wood cabinets, which were later sold for £481,000 and £601,000.

By the way, if we talk about money, it turns out that collecting is a good business. You can always play on the sale of one or another unique item. For example, Philip Niarchos, a Greek shipping magnate, owns an art collection valued at at least two billion dollars.

Prominent Hong Kong businessman William Chak paid a record price of HK$115 (US$14 million) for a Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911) porcelain vase. We imagine the joy of the former owner of the vase, who bought it for next to nothing at a flea market. So I recommend taking a closer look at your own collection of anything - just in case.

Anything can be collected. And it doesn’t matter whether they are expensive items or some trinkets. The main thing is that your collection is numerous and then you will definitely get into the Guinness Book of Records.

1. The largest collection of toothpaste tubes.

Val Kolpakov (Georgia, USA) has assembled a collection of 2,037 different toothpaste tubes collected from all over the world, including Korea, Japan, China, India and Russia.

2. The largest collection of slings.

Christian Gfrerer from Austria collects slings. His collection numbers 3,260 pieces and is constantly growing. By setting this record, Christian broke his own record of 2,671 lines.

3. The largest collection of sunglasses.

Betty Webster (Kamuela, Hawaii, USA) began collecting sunglasses in 1999. People visiting the Hawaiian Islands, having learned about the woman's addiction, simply gave her their glasses. Her collection numbers 1,506 pieces.

4. The largest collection of sneakers.

The largest and most complete Nike collection in the world consists of 2,388 pairs and belongs to Jordy Geller, who lives in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. All sneakers are brand new, in their original boxes and are valued at over a million dollars.

5. The largest collection of candy wrappers.

Milan Lukic Valdivia from Peru is collecting packaging for candies. Milan has been collecting chocolate wrappers for over 32 years. His collection includes specimens from 49 countries and totals 5,065 wrappers.

6. The largest collection of police hats.

The owner of the largest collection of police hats is Andreas Skala from Germany. The selection includes 2,534 unique items. Andreas Skala broke his previous record.

7. The largest collection of fire helmets.

A well-presented collection of fireman's helmets consists of 838 pieces and belongs to Geert Suer from the Netherlands. His collection began in 1976 with a London fire brigade helmet. Since then he has been collecting helmets from all over the world. When traveling to different countries, whether on a business trip or a family vacation, the first thing he does is visit the local fire station.

8. The largest collection of pencils.

Tushar Lakhanpal from India collects pencils. It collected 19,824 units. The largest in his collection is 3 m long, 29 cm wide and weighs 3.63 kg. And the smallest is only 4 cm in length. The teenager also has a gold-plated pencil, copies studded with Swarovski crystals and a pencil used by the Queen of England, which he bought for £400.

9. Largest collection of pizza boxes.

Scott Wiener from the USA is engaged in an unusual activity - collecting pizza boxes. The selection consists of 595 pieces and contains copies not only from your favorite pizzerias in the area, but from 45 different countries around the world. In this case, you can also admire the ability to fit almost 600 pizza boxes in your New York apartment.

10. The largest collection of teddy bears.

"Teddy Bear Town" is the name of Jackie Mealy's collection, which is housed in a small house on Main Street in Hill City. 8,026 pieces is a record that is difficult to break.

11. The largest collection of horseshoes.

Petr Costin from Chisinau (Moldova) collects “happiness”. His huge collection consists of 3,200 horseshoes. All samples are not new, but were once worn by horses, oxen and donkeys.

12. The largest collection of rubber ducks.

Charlotte Lee from the US has 5,631 rubber ducks that she has been collecting since 1996. All her toys are displayed in glass cases on four walls in a separate “duck room”.

13. The largest collection of Barbie dolls.

There are more than 100,000 Barbie doll collectors around the world. But the largest collection belongs to Betty Dorfmann from Germany, consisting of 15,000 different dolls. She is currently the proud owner of a rare 1959 Barbie, the company's first doll.

14. Largest collection of bottle caps.

An unusual hobby is collecting bottle caps. Poul Ho Poulsen from Denmark has been doing this since 1956. His huge collection includes 101,733 different caps from 183 countries.

15. The largest collection of ballpoint pens.

Angelika Unverhau from Germany is the owner of a huge collection of ballpoint pens - 285,150 pieces, excluding duplicates, imported from 148 different countries.

16. The largest collection of wooden walking canes.

Dalmacio Fernandez from Spain collects handcrafted wooden walking canes. His original selection amounts to 1,872 canes.

17. Largest collection of hamburger related items.

A hamburger lover from Daytona Beach (Florida, USA), Harry Sperl collected 3,724 “Hamburger items”, thereby setting an unusual world record.

18. Largest collection of Do Not Disturb signs.

Rainer Weichert from Germany collects "Do Not Disturb" signs. Hotels, cruise ships, airplanes from 188 countries are the main assistants in this unusual matter. The entire collection contains 11,570 characters. The rarest and most valuable item is from the Olympic Village in Berlin from 1936, and the oldest is from the General Brock Hotel in Canada from 1910.

19. Largest collection of valid credit cards.

Walter Kavanagh from the USA is the owner of 1,497 individual valid credit cards for a total amount of 1.7 million dollars. The culprit of this hobby was a bet made with a friend. And they were collected in just a year. By the way, the cards are stored in the largest wallet in the world, 76.2 m long and weighing 17.49 kg. And if you fold them end to end, they will reach the top of a four-story building.

20. The largest collection of toys from fast food restaurants.

Percival R. Luge from the Philippines is a fast eater. His collection of fast food toys totals 10,000 items. Even such a hobby can lead to the Guinness Book of Records.

Find out about the ten strangest collectors and their collections:

1. Bob Gibbins and Lizzie: 240 sex dolls

Bob Gibbins, 60, and his wife Lizzie, 55, have a rather unusual collection of 240 different types of sex dolls, which they dress up and take with them on shopping trips.

Bob says he was always interested in such dolls, but his passion really began to develop when he bought various rag dolls and other toys for his two children. He then moved on to buying mannequins for stores, which he spent two years acquiring, amassing quite an impressive collection. However, he only realized what he really wanted to collect when he found himself on an online forum for silicone doll lovers. In 2007, with the support of his wife, Gibbins purchased his first silicone doll, Beverly, for about $4,000. But that was just the beginning, as the couple continued to buy different types of sex dolls, from cheap inflatable ones that cost a maximum of $639, to lifelike silicone dolls like Jessica, who put a serious hole in the family's budget, cutting it by $11,202. Overall, Bob and Lizzie Gibbins estimate they've spent about $160,000 since they started collecting sex dolls.

Even though sex dolls are commonly purchased and used for sexual purposes, Bob says he has never used his girls in this way. He admits that he finds most of them attractive, especially since they are created with perfect figures, but he considers them all part of the family.

2. Graham Barker: The largest (and probably the only) collection of belly button fluff in the world

Collecting belly button fluff may not be a hobby worth bringing up in conversation, but that hasn't stopped a 45-year-old library worker from collecting his own belly button fluff for 26 years.

Graham Baker from Perth, Australia, has been building his strange collection ever since he noticed lint in his belly button one night and became interested in how much belly button lint a human being can produce. The only way to get the answer to your question was to watch your belly button and collect your own belly button fluff. Contrary to what many people think when they first hear about his strange habit, Graham is not obsessed with belly button fuzz, nor does he spend all his time looking at his belly button. He is driven by pure curiosity and devotes only ten seconds of his time to collecting belly button fluff, doing it right before he goes to the shower.

The amount of lint he finds in his belly button each night depends on the type of clothing he is wearing that day, but he has found that warm underwear is the most productive in this regard. Every night he collects his belly button fluff and puts it in a clay jar that he bought specifically for storing belly button fluff. At the end of each year, he adds that year's belly button fluff to his vast collection. In the 26 years he's collected his own belly button fluff, he's been able to fill three glass jars and is already working on a fourth. Believe it or not, his entire extensive collection weighs only 22 grams.

After making it into the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest collection of belly button fluff, his three glass jars of belly button fluff ended up in a museum for an undisclosed sum.

3 Eric Ducharme: Latex Mermaid Tails

When Eric Ducharme dons his beautiful mermaid tail to explore the crystal clear waters of Florida's natural springs as a merman, he says he transforms himself mentally, too. This is the unique, exciting life of a Florida man who says he eats, sleeps and breathes mermaids, while trying to physically look and act like them as often as time allows.

Ducharme has been fascinated by mermaids since he was a child. At the age of 16, he performed his first show, swimming as a mermaid prince at the Weeki Wachee Springs Little Mermaid Show in 2006.

Today, Ducharme has his own business called “Mertailor”. He produces custom tails made from silicone, urethane and latex, just like the ones he wears.

4. The largest collection of chewed nicotine gum in the world

Have you ever heard of someone who rolls chewed nicotine gum into a ball as if it were dough? No? Well, then listen.

When Barry Chappell was on an international flight, he started chewing nicotine gum because he couldn't smoke. Since there was no garbage disposal nearby where he could throw the gum, he simply held it in his hand and rolled it into a small ball. Piece by piece, his ball of chewed gum noticeably increased in size. It was at that moment that his amazing idea was born. Why not roll the world's largest ball of chewed nicotine gum and quit smoking in the process?

Now, six years and 95,200 chews later, Barry is a non-smoking superstar. He rolled a giant ball of chewed nicotine gum that weighs almost 80 kilograms!

5 Paul Brockman: A Collection of 55,000 Dresses He Handpicked for His Wife

If love were measured by the number of dresses, Paul Brockman would most likely receive the title of the most loving husband in the world. Over the past 56 years, the German-born, Lomita, California-based contractor has given his wife Margot 55,000 dresses, each of which he hand-picked.

The first ten dresses in Paul Brockman's impressive collection were free. He got them while working at the seaport in Bremen, Germany, where workers could choose what they wanted when bales of goods were opened. He gave them all to his then-girlfriend Margot. After they had been dating for some time, Paul asked his girlfriend's hand in marriage from her parents.

Margot shared his passion for dancing and they went to the dance floor every week, but Paul wanted her to wear a new dress every time, so he bought her more and more dresses.

Margot never liked shopping, so Paul chose and bought dresses himself. He bought dresses before work, after work and even during work, sometimes coming home with a pile of thirty new dresses. He bought them during end-of-season sales and wherever he saw something he liked. At some point, his obsession with dresses got out of control and he stopped caring about their size.

He never set any budget for his purchases. Sometimes he would spend everything he had in his pockets and wait until the next week if he didn't have any money. The most expensive dress was a dress that he spent $300 on and that Margot never wore. As you can imagine, most of the 55,000 dresses were never worn by Margot.

6. Jian Yang:

The white exterior and spartan gray staircase of Yang Jian's tidy home give no hint of what lurks inside - the pink floor in the living room and his collection of more than 6,000 Barbie dolls.

The 33-year-old from Singapore favors minimalist decor, but Barbie dolls and 3,000 other dolls fill three of the four walls of his living room, the nine mirrored cabinets in his dressing room, and the shelves in his office.

Jiang has a professional interest in toys as he is the director of marketing at Omicom Media Group. However, he began collecting Barbie dolls at the age of 13, when he bought a Barbie model called "Great Shape", dressed in a turquoise tracksuit and striped leg warmers.

His boyish interest has grown into a "crazy obsession" that is supported by his friends and accepted by his family. He spent more than 20 years and $404,681 building his collection.

Note: Although Jian has an impressively large collection, the 2013 edition of Guinness World Records gave the award for the largest collection of Barbie dolls to a German woman named Bettina Dorfmann, whose collection includes more than 15,000 of these dolls.

7. Chris Reid: The World's Largest (and Coolest) Collection of Super Soakers

Just look at Chris Reid's crazy collection of huge water pistols. The huge water pistol first appeared in 1989 and quickly replaced other types of water pistols. With its pumping system, the huge water gun practically gives you the ability to shoot water over long distances many more times than regular guns.

In total, he bought approximately 340 huge water pistols, including 240 unique designs (the rest were either models in other colors or repeats). His very first huge yellow and green water pistol, a Model 50, was signed by Lonnie Johnson, who invented this type of water pistol.

8. Robyn Amato: Collection of 3,000 Raggedy Annie dolls


Despite being surrounded by more than 3,000 Raggedy Annie dolls, Tampa, Florida resident Robin Amato can't bring herself to stop adding to her collection. She never had a Raggedy Annie when she was a child, so her craze didn't start until she was 40 years old. Now the 58-year-old Florida woman admits the dolls have taken over every room in her home.

So far, she has spent more than $20,000 on dolls, Raggedy Enya cookie jars and other doll-related collectibles.

Amato loves to dress up as Raggedy Annie and takes some of the dolls from her collection on her daily walks. She hosts tea parties and also spends time every day in a special bedroom reserved for her clan of Raggedy Annies.

9. Vic Clinco: World's Largest Hot Sauce Collection

Vic Klinko has the most extensive collection of hot sauces in the world. His astounding collection consists of 6,000 bottles, which he has purchased all over the world. His collection even includes a rare bottle of sauce called Blair's 16 Million Reserve, which is the hottest sauce on the planet. The shelves in the dining room of his home in Phoenix, Arizona are lined with bottles of sauces from ceiling to floor. can also be found in built-in cabinets and refrigerators.

He has been collecting sauce bottles for the past 17 years and is rightfully the owner of the largest private collection of hot sauces in the world. Mr. Klinko, who works as a cook at the Four Seasons Hotel, said his most prized bottle of hot sauce in his collection was worth about $900 and that it was unique. The most expensive bottle of hot sauce in his collection cost $4,000.

10. Paul Luke: World's Largest Collection of Milk Bottles

A former milkman was forced to build a museum behind his home in the garden after his house became too small for his collection of more than 10,000 milk bottles.

Dedicated to his craft, Paul Luke, 33, saved his first milk bottle when he was just nine years old and earned his own pocket money by working as a milkman's assistant. However, over time, his collection ballooned to more than 10,000 bottles, the rarest of which date back to the 1890s.

These people, who are in the Guinness Book of Records, have amassed the world's largest collections of things that you would never have thought to start collecting.

1. Umbrella covers

Nancy Hoffman from Peaks Island (Maine, USA) owns the largest collection of umbrella covers (730 unique items). You can visit her museum, which she created on her home island, and even sing along with her accordion in person.

2. Bottled water labels

Italian Lorenzo Pescini has a collection of labels from 8,650 types of bottled water from 185 different countries and 1,683 different sources.

3. Troll dolls

Sherry Groom from Ohio set a record by collecting 2,990 unique Troll dolls in 2012. Now the collection has grown to 3,500 dolls.

4. Hygienic air bags (in case of vomiting)

Nick Vermeulen from the Netherlands has collected 6,290 packages for airsick passengers from 1,191 different airlines in nearly 200 countries.

5. Miniature chairs

Barbara Hartsfield is the owner of a collection of 3 thousand miniature chairs, which she collected over more than 10 years. After she entered the Guinness Book of Records in 2008, she opened her own museum in Georgia.

6. Daleks

The official 2011 record belongs to Briton Rob Hull, who owns 571 Daleks. Now there are already 1202 copies in the collection. The most surprising thing is that Rob is not even a fan of the television series Doctor Who.

7. Dice

Kevin Cook is a record-breaking dice collector with a collection of 11,097 unique dice. In September 2014, his personal website indicated the number of collected copies was already 51 thousand.

8. Teddy bears

South Dakota's Jackie Miley collected 7,106 Teddy bears in 2011, when she set the record. Now she already has 7790 bears.

9. Winnie the Pooh and everything, everything, everything

Deb Hoffman also loves bears, mostly Winnie the Pooh, and has a collection of 10,002 items related to Winnie the Pooh and his friends.

10. Traffic cones

Briton David Morgan has collected the world's largest collection of traffic cones. He has only 137 different cones, and that's about two-thirds of all the varieties ever produced in the world.

11. Talking clock

Mark McKinley from Ohio owns the largest collection of talking clocks; at the time of the record there were 782 of them; Mark currently has 954 talking clocks.

12. Barbie dolls

German woman Bettina Dorfman collected 6,025 Barbie dolls worth a total of 150 thousand US dollars.

13. Toothbrushes

Russian Grigory Fleischer collected 1,320 toothbrushes. By the way, he is a dentist.

14. Stamps with birds

Daniel Monteiro from India is the proud owner of the largest collection of bird stamps. It contains 4911 stamps from 263 countries.

15. “Do not disturb” sign from hotel rooms

Swiss Jean-François Vernetti collected 11,111 “do not disturb” hotel signs from hotels in 189 countries. He started his collection in 1985.

16. Flamingo

Sherry Knight from Florida set a record for collecting flamingos and everything related to these birds. There are 619 copies in her collection.

17. Paper dolls

Malin Fritzell from Sweden has been collecting paper dolls since 1960; she currently has 4,720 of them.

18. Chickens and everything connected with them

Meet Cecil and Joan Dixon, they have collected 6,505 specimens of a variety of chickens.

19. Ready meals

Japanese Akiko Obata collected 8083 pieces in her collection. All of them are related to food and all kinds of food products, or rather, they look like ready-made dishes. This includes magnets, stationery, toys, keychains and souvenirs.

20. Card Jokers

Tony De Santis, an Italian magician, owns the largest collection of Joker playing cards. He collected 8,520 unique card copies.

21. Surfboards

Hawaiian Donald Dettloff has 647 different surfboards in his collection. From these boards he made a fence for his house, which is what he became famous for.

22. Sneakers

Jordan Michael Geller broke the record by amassing the most impressive collection of sneakers (2,388 pairs). His personal shoe museum in Las Vegas now consists of 2,500 pairs.

23. Napkins

German Martina Schellenberg collected the largest collection of paper napkins, a total of 125,866 copies.

24. Erasers

German Petra Engels has a huge wealth of 19,571 erasers from 112 countries. There are no duplicates, all erasers are in a single copy.

25. Mobile phones

German Karsten Tews collected 1563 models of mobile phones, all models are unique and not repeated.

26. Back scratchers

Dermatologist Manfred S. Rothstein of North Carolina collected 675 back scratchers from 71 countries. Real professional!

27. Toe nail cuticle samples

Although not a personal collection, Atlantic PATH collected 24,999 toenail cuticles in 2013 and currently has skin samples from over 30,000 people for the good cause of research into skin disease factors, including cancer.

28. Pokemon

Briton Lisa Courtney holds the official record in 2010. At that time, her collection amounted to 14,410 different souvenirs in the form of Pokemon. Now there are 16 thousand copies in the collection.

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, eliminate a few items 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 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.

Britain's David Morgan's obsession with traffic cones began 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 fabulous 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 has even hired international scouts who buy thousands of records for him from New York, Mexico City, South Africa, Nigeria and Cairo on his behalf and then send them to him in Brazil.

Since the businessman was well aware that a collection was of no use if people could not see it, he decided to found a non-profit music 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 have a high level of 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.