Welcome to the home of alternative collecting.  Here you will find features on some of the saddest, sickest or strangest collections imaginable.  Click any of the links below for full details, and be prepared to have your horizons broadened forever.

Spotlight Feature: Pass the sick-bag...
For some the highlight of a flight is the exhilaration of take off; for others it is the breathtaking sight of the earth as the panoramic view gently roles past 30,000 feet below. But for most flying is simply a convenient way of getting somewhere else. 
But for a select band, the highlight lies hidden in the seat pocket in front of them. For this intrepid group of world travelling collectors their object of desire is the often overlooked sick bag. Alt-Collector caught up with the prominent Swedish collector, and web master of sicksack.com, Rune Tapper.
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In the beginning, there was the abacus
Do you remember your first calculator with affection ? Did the dawn of the pocket calculator spell salvation from the terrors of long division ? If so you are a member of Generation-C, those that witnessed the birth of the calculator as an every day tool. In this interview, Alt-Collector talks to Guy Ball, co-author of ‘The Collector’s Guide to Pocket Calculators’ and owner of the world’s largest calculator collection. 
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The cigarette addiction
Smoking is bad habit with almost no redeeming qualities. But before we mount the barricades and call for a world wide ban on this evil addiction pause of a moment and reflect on the many and varied colleting hobbies that have their origin in smoking culture. 
Perhaps the most well known smoking related hobby is cigarette card collecting, with antique cigarette cases coming in a close second. But here at Atl-Collector we like to do thinks a little differently so we talked to Tom Carter, who has a personal collection of over 7,700 cigarette packs. 
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