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Overseas Coke bottle and can collection | My Sinchew (Malasia)

An array of Coke bottles and cans | My Sinchew:

This unique porcelain Coke can (right) is the only one of its kind.
Photo courtesy: Sin Chew Daily

"A retired teacher, 60 year-old Yang Pei-xin has been collecting an array of Coke cans introduced in different places over the past 15 years. Today, she boasts an impressive collection of more than 100 Coke items, which are being displayed at her shop for customer viewing. She also shares her experience with fellow Coke enthusiasts and collectors."

Kitchen gadgets collection (photos) - North Reading, MA Patch

Resident Works Forty Years in Food Industry - North Reading, MA Patch:

"For the last 35 years, he has been collecting various kitchen items, menus, and antiques. His collection has over 12,000 kitchen gadgets, 1,000's of menus, and hundreds of books."

The Largest Collection of Fabergé in the United States is On View at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The Largest Collection of Fabergé in the United States is On View at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts:

"RICHMOND, VA .- The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts presents an exhibition of the exhibition of the largest collection of Faberg in the United States. The exhibition, Fabergé Revealed, includes more than 500 objects and is on view from July 9 through October 2. The Russian jeweler Karl Fabergé crafted objects for the Russian imperial family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including specially commissioned Easter eggs. VMFA’s collection, the largest public collection of Fabergé outside of Russia, includes five of the thirteen Russian imperial Easter eggs that are in the United States."

Toy car museum in Ft. Worth Texas (video) DFW Elite Toy Museum

Lone Star Adventure: Toy Museum:

"the DFW Elite Toy Museum unique, most notably its vast collection of toy cars. The museum is home to both the largest and smallest gas-powered remote control cars in the world."

visiting the museum is absolutely free. For more information please visit DFW Elite Toy Museum's website .
Our toy museum is conveniently located just five minutes outside of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, in Haltom City.

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Pacific Islands artifacts from 1890s rediscovered in Buffalo NY :: University of Rochester

Rochester Review :: University of Rochester:

"...following up on a footnote in a book, the professor of anthropology and of visual and cultural studies drove less than an hour west of Rochester to Buffalo—and found there one of the largest and oldest collections of Pacific Islands artifacts anywhere in the world."

P. G. T. Black, the collector, was a branch inspector for Burns, Philp & Co., a trading and shipping firm based in Sydney, Australia. He acquired the objects—pieces used by Pacific Islanders at the time—between 1886 and 1916, and in 1938 the Buffalo Museum of Science bought, sight unseen, the 40 crates they filled.

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