What’s so life-affirming about collecting and trading miniature animals, keyrings, stickers and pins? We visit one of the 1,500 trinket exchanges to find outI’m standing, holding a thumbnail-sized glass owl, in front of a pink...
Read MoreDisplayed in a redesigned space, Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert’s expansive collection of decorative items is not only gorgeous, at last it boldly tackles the question of where these valuables came fromWe periodically hear when a...
Read MoreEvery set is exciting. I’ve currently got 4,379 different ones. The dream is to hit 4,500, maybe even 5,000The first Monopoly set I ever owned was the one everyone had – the classic edition with Mr Monopoly on the box. I bought...
Read MoreWrigley’s gave me 5,000 to start me off. I’ve now used nearly 3m I don’t know what to put it down to, but I’ve always been a collector, a completist, a statistician – and maybe a little competitive.As a schoolboy in Canada,...
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