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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Largest
collection of salt-and-pepper shakers - Dorena
Young sets world record
WALLSBURG, UT, USA -- Dorena Young,
70, has collected more than 3,645 pairs of salt-and-pepper
shakers - setting the new world record for the Largest
collection of salt-and-pepper shakers.
Photo: Dorena Young, 70, has collected
more than 3,645 pairs of salt-and-pepper shakers, an amount
that set a new world record for the Largest
collection of salt-and-pepper shakers. Photo by Steve
Griffin (enlarge
photo)
“I’ve never seen anything that massive,”
said Tony Gurney, one of two Utah licensed collectibles dealers
who helped verify Young’s collection. “It’s really unbelievable
for anyone to have that amount on display. And she does it
with character and style.”
Every room in the Young house displays shakers
with a theme.
In the kitchen, a china cabinet contains
all manner of food-related shakers, including fruit and vegetables,
ketchup bottles and animals wearing chef hats.
In the living room, Young displays shakers with
an outdoor sportsman theme: pheasants, fish, bison and deer.
They go along with the three elk heads, two deer heads and
numerous antlers that her husband, Glen, an avid hunter, has
on display.
Even the bathroom features shakers
from the sea: boats, frogs, sea horses and lighthouses. “I
keep saying I have enough of them, but then I see one that
I don’t have and I’ll have to buy it,” said Young, who started
the collection in grade school during a greeting-card fundraiser.
Browsing through Young’s collection, it’s
obvious that just about anything (cats, dogs, cars, houses,
hats, dice, slot machines and baseballs) or anyone (James
Dean, George and Martha Washington and JFK and Jackie) can
be turned into a salt-and-pepper shaker set. “You name it,
it’s there,” Young said.
The previous Guinness World Record for the
Largest
collection of salt-and-pepper shakers was a 3,000
sets collection.
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Tuesday, July 20, 2010
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