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 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 Continue reading →

Jackie Miley (USA) had 7,106 different teddy bears, as of 11 March 2011, which she has been collecting since 2002. When Jackie began the collection in 2002, she had no idea things would turn out as they have. When the collection grew, she thought she would like to collect as many teddy bears as Hill City’s population (780) for a goal. Since then her collection has grown to such an extent that she now has them in a little house of their own called Teddy Continue reading →

Mimi Wilfong (USA) has a collection of 116 different tea bag holders, as of June 2009, that she has amassed since 1992. Encouraged by her mother who is also an avid dinnerware collector, Mimi started her collection when she was seven years old. Most of the items are vintage and have been found in antique shops.

The largest collection of toothpaste tubes is 2,037 and belongs to Val Kolpakov (USA), in Alpharetta, Georgia, USA, on 15 June 2012. The collection consists of 2,037 different tubes of toothpaste from all over the world, including items from Japan, Korea, China, India and Russia.

Derryl Ogden (USA) has 16,055 neckties that he has amassed since 1934.

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.

Suzy Bralliar (USA) has 2,719 different unicorn items that she has amassed since 1980.

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 →