REALLY STRANGE COLLECTIONS

BALL-POINT PENS

Angelika Unverhau from Dinslaken, Germany, has collected more

than 220,000 ball-point pens (excluding duplicates) from 146 countries.

She has been collecting unusual pens since childhood, but decided to

take her hobby more seriously in 1990. She founded a club for ball-point
pen collectors who meet twice a year to trade pens.

CRISPS (POTATO CHIPS)

Myrtle Young started collecting potato chips while working as

a potato chip inspector for Seyfert Foods in Fort Wayne, Indiana

in 1987 when she saved a chip that looked like a face from the

conveyor belt. From that moment, she started selecting chips which

reminded her of something or someone. At the time of her death in

August 2014, she was said to have between 250 and

300 chips in her collection.

TOOTHPASTE TUBES

World Record of ‘largest collection of empty tubes of toothpaste’ has

been achieved by Ronan Jordan from New York, US. In October, 2013;

Mr. Jordan’s collection had 3750 empty tubes of toothpaste of

various companies from all over the world.

MURDEROBILIA

Creepy as it sounds, there are thousands of people out there

who stockpile murderabilia, collectibles that relate to murderers

and violent psychopaths. From cars to clothes via keepsakes,

diaries and even artwork doodled by some of the most deadly people

ever to grace society – murderabilia comes in all manner of forms.

As you might expect, the idea of collecting killers’ possessions has

courted controversy and campaigners in the US are currently

working to outlaw the auction of such items.

SUPER MARIOS

The largest collection of Super Mario memorabilia contains 5,441

individual, unique items and belongs to Mitsugu Kikai from Japan.

It was counted in Tokyo, in July 2010.

BURNT FOOD

Museum of burnt food was founded in the late 1980’s by

Deborah Henson-Conant and recently relocated to Arlington,

Massachusetts. The exhibit wings of the Museum house more than

49,000 scorched, singed, seared, and charred items of staggering

diversity, ranging from carbonized elephants, venison, pork, fish and

poultry to thrice-baked potatoes.

SUPERMAN

Herbert Chavez from Calamba Laguna, Philippines, can boast

of a superman memorabilia collection with almost 1300 items.

Herbert has even undergone a series of cosmetic surgeries for his nose,

cheeks, lips and chin down to his thighs and even his skin colour

to look more like his idol.

TRAINERS (SNEAKERS)

Jordan Michael Geller is an avid sneaker fan and reportedly owns

the largest sneaker collection in the world, with around 2,500 pairs.

Not surprisingly, he is also a fan of the most famous Jordan of them all,

Michael Jordan. Geller is featured in the 2013 Guinness Book of

World Records for having the largest private collection of shoes.

PANDAS

Celine Cornet has a collection of 2,200 pieces of panda collectables,

in her house in Haccourt, Belgium. Celine and her husband Andre

started their collection in 1978 when he gave her a panda souvenir

he bought in Italy. Celine said she is planning to donate all her pandas

to ill children when she passes away.