Donald Dettloff (USA) has 647 different surfboards, displayed around his property in Haiku, Maui, Hawaii, USA, that he has been collecting for over 15 years. His collection is widely known as the surfboard fence. He started creating the surfboard fence back in 1990 with the forecast of a hurricane. He wired his boards to his fence to keep them from blowing away.
The largest collection of Super Mario memorabilia contains 5,441 individual, unique items and belongs to Mitsugu Kikai (Japan). It was counted in Tokyo, Japan on 15 July 2010. Featured in Guinness World Records Gamers Edition 2011
The largest collection of sugar packets belongs to Ralf Schröder (Germany) and consists of 14,502 different sugar packets as of 14 May 2013, in Deepen, Niedersachsen, Germany. Ralf Schröder started his collection in 1987. The oldest sugar packet dates back from the 1950’s.
The record for the largest collection of stubby holders is 516 and is held by John Lane of the Hotel Beverley, Beverley, Australia. John, who is the manager of the hotel has been collecting the stubby holders since 1997, all of which are housed in the main bar of the hotel.
Cedric Brown (UK) has a collection of 17,455 bowling stickers that he has amassed since the 1980s from numerous bowling clubs around the world. Holder passed away in Oct 2005
The largest collection of car bumper stickers is owned by Bill Heermann of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA who has amassed 4,131 since 1984. Bill began his bumper sticker collection in 1984 when he was in the eighth grade at school. Bill was on his way to Eagle Scouts when he was handed a number of stickers from passers by and from then on he was hooked on starting a collection.
Dan Cavanah of Florida, USA has amassed 460 stick horses since 1990. Stick horses are sometimes referred to as hobby horses, although they are actually two distinctly different types of items and collectibles. Stick Horses are horses heads on a stick and Hobby Horses can be several different types of horses with the complete body mounted on spring attachments, rockers, wheels, or even fabricated horse bodies that are worn by the rider. Dan had always been an avid lover of horses and in 1990 a
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Jason Joiner, of Ealing, London, UK, a special effects expert who has worked on the Star Wars films currently being made in the United Kingdom, has a collection of over 20,000 Star Wars toys. In addition, Joiner has one of the original C3PO robots, an original R2D2 and an original Darth Vader costume.
The largest collection of stamps – first day covers is 7,215, achieved by George Vavvas (Greece), in Ionnina, Greece, on 6th April 2013. Geogre Vavvas has started his collection in 2005. The first day covers are coming from 119 different countries.
Celso Fernandes (Canada) has a collection of 6,459 stamps depicting ships, as of 13 February 2006, that he has been collecting since 1991.