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Michel-Jack Chasseuil’s Wine Collection
Fancy a tipple? Octogenarian Michel-Jack Chasseuil has amassed an impressive wine collection of over 40,000 bottles in his specially built cellar in La Chapelle-Baton, France.
Mainly rare and prestigious wines, Michel-Jack has never opened, smelt or tasted any of his collection, instead racking them up in what he’s nicknamed ‘The Louvre Of Wine’. He’s released a book documenting his collecting journey and even accepts paying visitors to browse the cellar shelves!
Any wine expert will tell you that a decent wine collection requires strong shelving and racking – there can be no risk of breakages!
Margaret Tyler’s Royal memorabilia collection
British Royalist Margaret Tyler started her collection of Royal Family memorabilia with an ash tray purchased for just 2½p, but she has gone on to add over 13,000 items. This includes a huge variety of commemorative china, promotional items from recent Royal weddings, and novelty gifts, including a union flag suit.
Margaret met Queen Elizabeth four times and notes her earliest Royal memory as her coronation back in the 1950s. Much of the collection is antiques, which need special airtight storage solutions for the best protection.
Zeo Freitas’ vinyl collection
In Sao Paolo, Brazil, Zero Freitas boasts the world’s biggest vinyl collection; and it all began with a pocket money purchase back in 1965. Now the proud owner of over 6,000,000 records, he runs a non-profit exhibition centre of his collection and a lending library for some titles.
Antonio Romero Monteiro’s video game collection
Gamer Antonio Romero Monteiro of Texas in the USA can boast a Guinness World Record Breaking collection of video games – with titles for the largest collection of Xbox, Sega, Nintendo and PlayStation items.
Antonio’s games totalled 20,139, classifying him as record holder in December 2021 but by the end of 2022, he himself estimated that he had collected at least 3,000 extra bits to add to the collection, which is now worth over £1.7 million!
Arjan Wijngaard’s football shirt collection
Dutch football fan Arjan Wijngaard has collected over 3,000 football shirts from around the world, across 25 years. Beginning with an Everton shirt he was given back in 1997, Arjan now boasts one of the largest personal football shirt collections in the world. He has a room in his house dedicated to exhibiting his vast collection and logs every single shirt in a comprehensive online collection.
Clothing should be folded and displayed in transparent storage boxes, so it can be admired without being crumpled or needlessly manhandled.
Anke Gowda’s book collection
Indian literature enthusiast Anke Gowda collects over 1,000 books a month, in all languages, and is now the proud owner of over 1.5 million in his ‘house of books’ warehouse. Needless to say, he does not claim to have read them all! His collection is open to the public and is recognised by the Limca Record Book as being the biggest personal collection in India.