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Salt and pepper shakers, that is. Some 37,000
pairs are on display on floor-to-ceiling shelves in the museum
the 58-year-old Israeli collector has opened in his backyard in
the northern city of Hadera.
Bar-on's exhibit includes shaker Santas, Christmas trees, toilet
seats, animals, figures in traditional dress and even a ceramic
Queen Elizabeth and her dog.
He received most of the shakers as gifts or as donations from
other collectors, and purchased the rest. "Everyone lives
happily in this museum. Muslims, Christians, Jews, everyone," he
said.
Bar-on began the collection in 2014 and he said representatives
of the Guinness World Records were due to visit his 'Salt &
Pepper Museum' soon.
He has digitally documented every shaker. The oldest dates back
to 1703, and he said the most expensive was worth $17,000.
"I'm going to stop on forty thousand because I think that it's
very difficult for people to handle with such a quantity of
items and that's the limit," said Bar-on.
(Reporting by Elana Ringler; Writing by Jeffrey Heller; editing
by John Stonestreet)
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