Denise Tubangui (USA) has a collection of 2,429 cow-related items, as of March 2011, which she has collected since 1990. Denise started the collection in 1990 when she saw a cow figurine in her mother’s kitchen. Her favourite item is the life-sized calf that her neighbours gave her as a present.
Delores DeJohn (USA) has 690 donkey-related items that she has collected since 1976. Back in 1976, because so many of her friends smoked cigarettes, Delores realised the need to purchase an ashtray. The criteria for the ashtray was that it had to be red to match the décor of her house. The first red one that she found was in the shape of a donkey. She realised that the donkey shape was also symbolic of the U.S Democratic Party, so she bought it. Following that,
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The largest collection of Donald Duck memorabilia belongs to Steffen Gerdes (Denmark) and consists of 2,775 items as of 27 June 2012, in Østermarie, Denmark. Steffen started his collection in 1986. The collection consists of 134 different categories from wooden alphabet letters to zipper pendants.
Jean-François Vernetti (Switzerland) has collected 11,111 different ‘Do Not Disturb’ signs from hotels in 189 countries across the world since 1985.
The world’s largest collection of dinosaur eggs numbers 10,008 individual samples as of November 2004. It is held at the Heyuan Museum, Guangdong Province, China. All of the eggs come from the late Cretaceous period (89-65 million years ago) and include eggs from oviraptorid and duck-billed dinosaurs.
Kevin Cook (USA) has a collection of 11,097 dice that he has amassed since 1977.
John Williams (UK) has a collection of 9,748 decorative pins in the form of rugby lapel badges that he has amassed since the 1950’s.
Karen Ferrier (UK) has 1,117 different dalmatian-related items that she has amassed since 1991, as of 3 February 2009. Karen’s collection includes a car and the items that used to belong to Dodie Smith, the author of 101 Dalmatians.
Bernd Sikora (Germany) has 1,482 crisp packets from 43 countries that he has been collecting since 1993.
Darren Martin (UK) has a collection of 441 crab-related items, as of 9 March 2011, that he has been collecting for over 10 years. Dr Martin did his doctorate on Zinc and Cadmium in the haemolymph of the shore crab, Carcinus maenas. His work is summed up by his friends and family as ‘Darren studied crabs.’ His collection started when he was given a crab pencil sharpener. His website is www.brachyura.co.uk.