Wednesday, May 8, 2013

  Largest collection of letter openers:Santa Fe College  smash Guinness world record

Gainesville, FL, USA -- A passionate collector and generous donor named William L. Brown, a semiretired local businessman who has a doctorate in microbiology, donated a collection of letter openers to the Santa Fe College Foundation; after two professional witnesses from the Matheson Museum counted the 5,000 openers, SF College sets the new world record for the Largest collection of letter openers, according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/ .

  Photo: Brown, a semiretired local businessman who has a doctorate in microbiology, donated the world's largest collection of letter openers to the Santa Fe College Foundation. ( enlarge photo )

 The Guinness world record for the largest collection of individual bottle openers belongs to Marinus Van Doorn (Netherlands) and consists of 33,492 in Veghel, Netherlands.

  Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the largest collection of pencils, which belongs to Emilio Arenas (Uruguay) and consists of 14,552 black pencils from 60 countries.

  Brown traveled abroad frequently for his job and wanted a type of souvenir that would be easily portable.

  He bought his first letter opener in Rome in the late 1950s and was hooked. He also traveled worldwide with his wife, an antiques dealer.

  While she shopped for antiques he collected letter openers.

  Brown, a semiretired local businessman who has a doctorate in microbiology, donated the world's largest collection of letter openers to the college in 2012.

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