Largest collection of brooches (broaches)

According to Official Guinness Records,

Adam Wide (UK) has 4,061 different brooches, as of 14 October 2010, which he has been collecting since 1984. All of Adam's collections are Christmas brooches. Adam bought his first Christmas brooches in Copenhagen in 1984. The following year, also in Copenhagen he bought three more, and the gradually the collection has become his obsession.

For a complete list of 2011 records, please visit 2011 Guinness Records in United Kingdom.

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