Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
a. The assessment of the collection must take place in a public place or in a venue open to public inspection.
b. The collection must be assessed and counted by two independent witnesses at least one of whom must be a representative from a relevant, established and recognised society specializing in the subject area of the collection submitted.
c. The record is based on the total number of different individual items in the collection.
d. Duplicates will not be counted.
e. All items must be, or have been, commercially available. Homemade items will not be counted towards the final total.
f. If items are usually paired (i.e. earrings or cufflinks) the number of matching pairs must be given.
g. A concise, clear and audited inventory must be submitted for all claims either including thumbnail pictures of all the items, or labelled with photo names, so as to allow the log book to be cross referenced with the images.
h. Claims must be submitted by the owner with a brief history of when (year) and why the collection began. It is also of interest to know where the collection is housed and if there is a particular favourite, giving reasons why.

See, the first rule is kinda ridiculous if you are talking a collection of thousands, unless they counted you opening your home up to the public. Otherwise it could take weeks to pack up all your figures, find a place to display them thats secure, set them up, have the record done, pack them up, transport them home and then set them up again.

Ironically it's almost feasible for me. All my collection is still boxed up from the move 18 months ago, I'm on school holidays so I have a bit of time on my hands and Im sure the local high school would let me use their gym.

But what would be the point? I know that Griffin has nearly 3 times as many as I do, I'd feel like a total fraud going for the record because I'd know it wouldn't rightly be mine.