A.G.Straver (Netherlands) has a collection of 457 items relating to snails that he has amassed since 1995.
His collection began because he lives in a small village where many people have the same name, therefore each famly is given a nickname – his wife’s family name was ‘the snail’. In 1993 he bought his wife a ceramic snail as a birthday gift and it was from there that he decided to start his own collection.