Collectors from ages 9 to 92 will share their collections of dolls from around the world, fishing lures, guitars, Hot Wheels, railroad memorabilia, vintage lunchboxes, and much more.
CALLING ALL COLLECTORS! If you collect Barbie Dolls, baseball cards, Matchbox cars, piggy banks, or just about anything else, Menomonie’s Rassbach Museum wants YOU!.
Olmsted once tried to list every collection to his name, but gave up after number 100.
The banana labels have made it into his Top 13, the collections that interest him the most.
“When they come out with a new label, there are 20 or 50 variations of it,” said the 82-year-old. “It’s just hard to stop. I’ll be doing it on the last day I’m alive.”
A year ago, Olmsted sat behind a plastic folding table at Collectors Day at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Extravagant collectors lined the walls of the conference room, displaying their potato mashers, their pop-up books, their Olympic memorabilia. Olmsted’s layout of laminated photographs sat atop a red tablecloth.