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Largest collection of thermometers

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Richard T Porter (USA) has a collection of 4,580 thermometers that he has amassed since 1978, all are housed in the Porter Thermometer Museum, Onset, Massachusetts, USA. In light of Richards local fame, Onset Massachusetts is fondly referred to as the thermometer capital of the world.

Largest collection of train tickets

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Frank Helker (Germany) has a collection of 163,235 Edmondson railway tickets that he has amassed since the 1980s. Edmondson tickets are those that have been made using a specific printing and numbering machine. Thomas Edmondson invented the revolutionary system of printing rail tickets and it has been in wide use since 1843. Frank has railway tickets dating from 1902 to 2003.

Largest collection of two-headed animals

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A former Grammy award-winning producer, Todd Ray (USA) is also notable for possessing the world’s most impressive collection of two-headed, or dicephalic, animals. Having scoured the globe in search of such curiosities and spent over £100,000 ($157,824) on acquisitions, he currently owns no fewer than 22 different specimens. These include a two-headed albino hog-nosed snake, a two-headed goat, a two-headed terrapin, a two-headed king snake, a two-headed bearded dragon (a species of lizard) named Pancho and Lefty, plus the world’s only living three-headed creature: a Continue reading →

Largest collection of trivets

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Gerd Bonk (Germany) has 126 different trivets, as of 16 February 2010, that he has been collecting since 1975. A trivet is a plate placed between a serving dish and a dining table to protect the table from heat damage. All of his breakfast trivets have different old German proverbs printed.

Largest collection of tribal and ethnic footwear

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The record for the largest collection of tribal and ethnic footwear belongs to William (Boy) Habraken (The Netherlands), with 2,322 different pairs of footwear originating from 155 countries, which he has been collecting since 1968. William’s collection, which consists of shoes, boots, sandals, moccasins, clogs and slippers dating back to the 10th century B.C., is housed in a private museum in Holland and displayed in 39 glass cabinets. From January 2007, his collection will be permanently displayed in the “Shoes or no Shoes” Museum in Continue reading →

Largest collection of whisky bottles

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Alfredo Gonçalves of Lisbon, Portugal, has collected 10,500 unduplicated whisky bottles in all different shapes. His collection is open to the public at his shop “Whisky & Co” in Lisbon, Portugal. Alfredo Gonçalves, now 78, began his collection forty years ago while in Africa. One of his businesses at that time was a travel agency, which led him to travel quite often and expand his collection. Over the years, Alfredo’s collection got so large for his office that he decided to open a Whisky Shop Continue reading →

Largest collection of versions of one song

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The largest collection of versions of the same song is 3,049 different recorded interpretations of the hymn ‘Amazing Grace’ by John Newton, collected by Allan Chasanoff and Raymon Elozua (both USA) on November 2004. In 2004, Allan and Raymon reached an agreement with the United States Library of Congress, USA and their collection is now housed there. The donated records are a cross section of different musical styles, ranging from blues, jazz, folk, country, classical, electronic, rap, gospel, pop, urban and country blues, R&B, rock, Continue reading →