Bag collections
By popular request, here's a ranking of bag collectors worldwide,
garnered from claims and bags listed on their websites. These are numbers
of unique bags - it does not include duplicates.
Some of this
information is hopelessly outdated, and baggists have been known to
inflate their bag numbers in order to attract envy (or deflate their
figures in order to lull competitors into a false sense of security).
There is no universally accepted way of counting unique bags. Some baggists collect anything that might conceivably contain human and even
animal wastes (including sanitary bags and dogshit bags). I admit that I'm
one of these.
Other baggists collect only logoed bags from airlines. They eschew
plain white or generic bags, and won't even look at bags from buses,
trains or boats.
Some bag taxonomists (the "splittists") spot minute differences between two
apparently identical bags, while others (the "lumpers") are happy to
accept two bags with radically different ink colours as the same.
This list does not include several major players in the baggame,
including Denir Lima de Camargo and Matthias Koch. I eagerly await
their figures.
The ranking is based on total figures of bags claimed by each
collector. These numbers have not been verified by InterBag, the World Bagtrade
Organization, the Royal Society for the Protection of Bags, or the
International Federation of Organic Bagriculture Movements - or indeed, by anyone else.
Please note that I accept absolutely no responsibility for any errors in this list. If
you spot one, please let me know!
Data from email,
website,
other.
yellow and
show most recent
movements in the ranking.
Grey shows baggists who
have given up baggery - one hopes to go on to more sensible avocations.
gives the collector's eBay
name.
Thanks to all who have helped compile this list. Updated
17 Feb 2013.
Collection bagometer
| |
|
Name, location, website |
Bags |
Air-lines |
Coun-tries |
Remarks,
date
Date of email or visit to website |
| 1 |
 |
Niek Vermeulen, Netherlands
guinnessworldrecords.com,
lynternet@hotmail.com |
~6500 |
1142 |
>160 |
Includes only "optically different" bags with printed
company name or logo. "No apples and oranges"
5 Jan 13
Guinness Book of World Records 2013
6290 certified by Guinness,
28 Feb 12 |
| 2 |
 |
Bruce Kelly,
Alaska, USA
kellysairsicknessbags.com |
5807 |
1267 |
183 |
Includes 273 generic, 198 boat, 61 train, 92 road and
303 miscellaneous bags
13 Feb 13 |
| 3 |
 |
Oliver Conradi,
Germany
baghecht.de
|
5792 |
1399 |
179 |
30 Oct 09 Bild
Zeitung, 30 Oct 2009 |
| 4 |
 |
Gerhard
Lang, Germany
baghecht.de
19lange81 |
4065 |
829 |
|
Includes 249 generics and 290 bags from boats, buses and movies.
04 Jan 10 |
| 5 |
 |
Gerd Clemens, Germany |
3906 |
975 |
167 |
Includes 242 generics, boat and train bags.
3 Jan 13 |
| 6 |
 |
Thomas Homer Goetz, Denmark
airsicknessbags.dk
|
3702 |
1007 |
173 |
Airsickness bags only.
5 Jan 13 |
| 7 |
 |
Jaromír Král,
Czech Republic |
3069 |
839 |
|
23 Dec 12 |
| 8 |
 |
Thorsten Hecht, Germany
baghecht.de
|
3004 |
|
|
Only airsickness bags.
26 Feb 12 |
| 9 |
 |
Walter Brinker, Germany
bagstage.org
|
2739 |
1152 |
187 |
No boat, no dog, no bus, no pregnant women. "As a lumper I have no chance of getting into the top 10"
4 Jan 13 |
| 10 |
 |
Janusz Tichoniuk, Poland
yahodeville.com
|
2714 |
946 |
154 |
Includes bus, ferry & promo bags, excludes hygiene and dogbags.
23 Aug 11 |
| |
|
Name, location, website |
Bags |
Air-lines |
Coun-tries |
Remarks,
date |
| 11 |
 |
Paul Mundy, Germany
bagophily.com |
2684 |
664 |
147 |
Includes bus, boat, train, promo, hygiene and dogbags.
19 May 07 |
| 12 |
 |
Fredy Thürig,
Switzerland
thuerig.ch/ASB_main.htm
|
~2500 |
|
|
5 Jan 13
Includes train, bus and ship bags |
| 13 |
 |
David
Bradford, New Zealand/UK |
2468 |
779 |
|
Plus 65 seasick bags from 42 shipping lines, and an
album of others.
2 Mar 08 |
| 14 |
 |
Steve
Silberberg, USA
airsicknessbags.com
stevebo |
2216 |
|
|
Includes 340 non-airline bags and generics.
14 Feb 13 |
| 15 |
 |
Aidan
Stradling, UK
sickbagexamples.webeden.co.uk |
2048 |
633 |
144 |
Airline bags only
24 May 08 |
| 16 |
 |
Roger
Macrae, UK |
1744 |
693 |
157 |
Airline bags only, no generics or military.
24 May 07 |
| 17 |
 |
Rune
Tapper, Sweden
sicksack.com |
1550 |
535 |
139 |
29 Jan 13 |
| 18 |
 |
Wolfgang Franken,
Germany
airsicknessbags.de
|
1524 |
644 |
154 |
Airline bags only. 1602 bags to swap.
2 Feb 10 |
| 19 |
 |
Bob
Grove, USA
baggistbobgrove.htm |
1475 |
|
|
Includes 9 novelty, 21 boat, no generics. Does not count bags with different phone numbers or slight differences
in logo placement.
29 Jan 13 |
| 19 |
 |
Rainer Schwartz,
Germany
rainer-schwartz.de.tl |
1452 |
591 |
137 |
Plus 58 train, boat, generic, misc bags
11 Jan 13 |
| |
|
Name, location, website |
Bags |
Air-lines |
Coun-tries |
Remarks,
date |
| 21 |
 |
David Shomper, USA
www.RockyMountainBarfbags.com |
1290 |
518 |
133 |
2 Jan 13 |
| 22 |
 |
Mark
Brace, UK |
1269 |
419 |
120 |
Includes 1174 airline, 42 boat, 12 bus, 6 train and 33
novelty bags. Does not include 32 dogshit and 108 other disposal bags
26 Jan 13 |
| 23 |
 |
Vidas Vekerotas,
Lithuania
tinyurl.com/5ul3jf3
wekidas |
1051 |
447 |
137 |
Includes 965 airline bags, 31 generic, 11 boat, 2 train, 22 other.
3 Jan 13 |
| 24 |
 |
Toshiaki Anan, Japan
airsicknessbags.jp |
1028 |
432 |
123 |
28 Jan 13 |
| 25 |
 |
Frank Mulliri, Norway |
980 |
|
|
Airline bags with logo or name only.
4 Jan 13 |
| 26 |
 |
Alan Howlett, Germany
bagland.de |
922 |
|
|
2 Jun 09 |
| 27 |
 |
Jürgen Klein, Germany
juergen-klein |
915 |
399 |
133 |
Airsickness bags only.
6 Jan 13 |
| 28 |
 |
Earl Waibel,
USA
sickbagman.com
|
860 |
449 |
|
Bought Steve James's collection, which is listed in
this website. Airline bags only, no generics.
17 Feb 06 |
| 29 |
 |
Leszek Szałapak,
Poland
ion-tichy.republika.pl/
iontichy7 |
813 |
372 |
117 |
17 Apr 11 |
| |
|
Steve James, UK |
800 |
|
|
Collection bought by Earl Waibel |
| 30 |
 |
Fulvio Dossena, Italy
fulviodossena.it/bags/ |
796 |
|
|
5
Jan 13 |
| |
|
Name, location, website |
Bags |
Air-lines |
Coun-tries |
Remarks,
date |
| 31 |
 |
Stuart Hickson, UK |
779 |
411 |
|
Includes 12 ferry bags and 21 generics
1 May 06 |
| 32 |
 |
Graham
Curran, UK
vomitorium.co.uk
|
758 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 33 |
 |
Tom de Kort, Belgium
groups.msn.com/tbrakerke/
|
743 |
355 |
|
2 Mar 08 |
| |
|
Chris Hays, UK
bag-hobby.com
|
724 |
|
|
18 Oct 06
Gave up baggery to concentrate on rock music. Part of collection
acquired by David Bradford |
| 34 |
 |
Gilles Beger, France |
720 |
|
|
Planes only.
27 Feb 06 |
| 35 |
 |
Christian Annyas,
Netherlands
annyas.nl/inflight/
|
679 |
321 |
104 |
16 Feb 06 |
| 36 |
 |
Petr Manda, Czech
Republic
airsicknessbags.czechian.net
|
600+ |
|
|
8 Jan 13
Estimated |
| 37 |
 |
Daniel Kahleyss, Germany
mitglied.lycos.de/daniel_ka/
|
527 |
310 |
136 |
11 May 06 |
| 38 |
 |
Jan Tomášek,
Czech Republic
blici-pytliky.czechian.net
|
506 |
276 |
107 |
27 Feb 08 |
| |
|
Rasmus Møller Sørensen,
Denmark
home11.inet.tele.dk/rasbe/
indexuk.html
|
500 |
150 |
|
Website not updated since 1998. Complete collection
taken over by Homer Goetz in 1999. |
| 39 |
 |
Ed Sluimer, Netherlands |
480 |
|
|
Airlines only, no generics
4 Jan 13 |
| 40 |
 |
Federico Mandrila,
Italy
federicomandrile.wix.com |
429 |
|
|
17 Feb 13 |
| |
|
Name, location, website |
Bags |
Air-lines |
Coun-tries |
Remarks,
date |
| 41 |
 |
Rolf Thalmann,
Germany
www.rolf-thalmann.de/kt/
|
426 |
184 |
80 |
Includes 23 non-airline bags
5 Apr 11 |
| 42 |
 |
Stefan Peterseim,
Germany
barfbagbox.tk
facebook
twitter |
401 |
212 |
80 |
4 Jan 12 |
| 43 |
 |
Chen
Yinghao, Singapore
www.airsicknessbags.sg
|
388 |
186 |
81 |
20 Apr 10 |
| 44 |
 |
Sam Green,
Israel
fortunecity.com/oasis/
belize/387/
|
376 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 45 |
 |
Guido Debenedetti,
Italy
utenti.lycos.it/zioguido/ |
362 |
|
|
18 Feb 06 |
| 46 |
 |
Reiner Schulz,
Germany
bagistan.com
|
342 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 47 |
 |
Nicola Carmignani, Italy
maldaria.altervista.org |
270 |
172 |
68 |
19 Dec 10 |
| 48 |
 |
Harry Robertson,
USA
geocities.com/harryrob2000/
|
254 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 49 |
 |
Danny Cahalan,
Australia
http://tinyurl.com/6dq42la |
250 |
|
|
13 Apr 11 |
| 50 |
 |
Russell Buckley,
UK
safety99.freeserve.co.uk
|
248 |
|
|
Unclear
if this a complete list.
16 Feb 06 |
| |
|
Name, location, website |
Bags |
Air-lines |
Coun-tries |
Remarks,
date |
| 51 |
 |
Cédrick Gauthier-Lacognata, Italy
cidricu.it |
224 |
137 |
67 |
Includes 12 generic bags.
14 Jun 10 |
| 52 |
 |
John Campbell
tinyurl.com/ap236ys |
~200 |
|
|
Not all airline.
12 Feb 13 |
| 53 |
 |
Georg
Jablonowski, Germany
kotztueten-museum.de
|
189 |
|
|
11 Mar 08 |
| 54 |
 |
Nicola Ottolini,
Italy
geocities.com/sickbagssite/
|
183 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 55 |
 |
Michel Silvera & Ludwig Gelobter, Panama |
180 |
|
|
26 Feb 06 |
| 56 |
 |
Rebecca D'Cruz, Malaysia |
170 |
|
|
17 Nov 08 |
| 57 |
 |
Bjørn
Christian Tørrissen,
Norway
www.pvv.org/%7Ebct/spypose/ |
150 |
|
|
5 Apr 08 |
| 58 |
 |
Frederik Witte, Germany
www.joinup.de/Kotztueten.htm
|
137 |
107 |
|
26 Jan 07 |
| 59 |
 |
Yonatan Chaim
Mevorach, Israel
barfbags.netfirms.com
|
105 |
|
|
24 Sep 06 |
| 60 |
 |
Eero Kouvalainen,
Finland
cc.oulu.fi/~emk/itstrue.html
|
100+ |
|
|
18 Feb 06 |
| |
|
Name, location, website |
Bags |
Air-lines |
Coun-tries |
Remarks,
date |
| 61 |
 |
Frédéric
Courtay, Belgium
users.skynet.be/airsicknessbags/ |
100 |
68 |
37 |
16 Feb 06 |
| 62 |
 |
Kanako Ogawa, Japan
airsicknessbags.jp/kanako/
kanakoindex.html |
100 |
|
|
13 Dec 07 |
| 63 |
|
Robert Glick,
USA
http://tinyurl.com/caaff7b |
ca 100 |
|
|
1 Dec 11 |
| 64 |
 |
Kyoko
Hagino-Tomioka, Japan
www.geocities.co.jp/
SweetHome-Skyblue/6422/
gero/sickbag.html |
93 |
|
|
8 Feb 08 |
| |
|
Alan Radecki, USA |
86 |
|
|
Collection donated to David Shomper in exchange for
airline napkins, Feb 06 |
| 65 |
 |
Sawada
Ken, Japan
utpala.org/indojin/gero/
|
89 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 66 |
|
Michael Cooper,
USA
beachmat.berkeley.edu/~mike/
barfbags.html |
69 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 67 |
|
Chas, UK
chasworld.freeuk.com/codesick/
sicklist.htm |
62 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 68 |
|
Max Sammet,
Germany
members.tripod.com/~barfbags/
main.htm |
52 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 69 |
|
Takeshi
and Tomoko Muto,
Japan
apollomaniacs.web.infoseek.
co.jp/bags/indexe.htm
|
50 |
|
|
16 Feb 06 |
| 70 |
 |
Martin Zeil
and Thomas Krämer, Germany
kotztuete.net
|
49 |
|
|
14 Jul 07 |
| |
|
Name, location, website |
Bags |
Air-lines |
Coun-tries |
Remarks,
date |
| 71 |
|
Zarko
Koneski, Macedonia |
45 |
|
|
10 Jan 02 |
| 72 |
 |
Ulrik Christensen,
Denmark
airsicknessbags.rocks.it |
43 |
|
|
18 Feb 06 |
| 73 |
|
Arnaud Giraud, France |
20 |
|
|
31 Jan 09 |
| 74 |
|
Mike
Ismert, USA
www.tns.lcs.mit.edu/~izzy/barfbag.html
|
10 |
|
|
27 Feb 08 |