The Ticket Collector

In 1997, I travelled from Prague, Moscow, St Petersburg overland on the Transiberian Express to China and then Thailand, Laos and finally Indonesia. On the way I collected scraps of paper, tickets, cigarette and match box packets, stamps, and anything that caught my eye. Below is a selection from that. I remembered this scrapbook after Benjamin Pollock's Toy Shop asked people to share their collections on their mini social gallery in celebration of the current Barbican exhibition, Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector.  If you want to see other people's collections and find out more about the Pollock's competition and how to share your own collections, see my last post or check out their Facebook page.

Mongolian money, stamps and maps

Moscow and ticket for Transiberian perhaps

Prague

The stamps on the left feature the Thai King Bhumbibol Adulyadej, rather coolly holding a camera here. 

China, water bottle, cigarette pack and ticket for Great Wall

Laos

Mongolia

China

Aeroflot mints, cigarettes? I am not sure.

More is More

To celebrate the current Barbican exhibition Magnificent Obsessions: The artist as Collector, Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop are asking people to share images of their collections in a mini gallery. 

"You can win a pair of tickets to Magnificent Obsessions: The artist as Collector at the Barbican and tickets to the Unicorn Theatre but really just to share the love and show how collecting inspires. Don't be shy. Please share."

I love the collections I have already seen there. This is a collection of Kokeshi Dolls belonging to illustrator Geoffrey Coupland.

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And this is a collection of Multicultural Dolls belonging to Simon Seddon, artist and manager at Benjamin Pollock's toyshop.

My collection is much more modest I am afraid. 

Here is the collection of a rolling stone (small caps) (me). 

Dumpster truck owned for 20 years, acquired in Tokyo on visit and tour of incinerator plant.
"Flohspiel" tiddlywinks game owned for 10 years, acquired in Berlin; neighbours put out things they didn't want in the hall for others to take.
Knitted figure (newly acquired) Edinburgh originally belonged on a card. Now just hangs out and turns up in unexpected places around the flat.

I LOVE my dumpster truck and could never ever part with it. It even tips up and has a neat compartment for tiny amounts of rubbish at the rear, and reminds me of Japan, a country I love and once visited. 

So if you have a collection, don't keep it to yourself, share it here.