Milkman and his Milk Bottles

The collection hobby could get a new infusion in to its already listed collection. The new entrant is nothing but collecting milk bottles. If one could collect stamps, coins, sick bags then collecting milk bottles   although a bit unusual is not out of place atleast. And that too when the collection is steered by none other   than the milkman himself then you can be sure   that it has the level of seriousness the subject involves with it. Paul Luke the man behind all this would be happy to tell more about his childhood hobby turned love.

Luke was a former milkman and has been into the habit of collecting milk bottles since he was nine years old. He has more than 10,000 stored away in his mini museum. It is not only the bottles but this guy also has milkman’s uniform, caps, badges and all. His dedication has been really electrifying when we came to know that he has stuffed all the bottles painstakingly with polystyrene balls to make it resemble as though the bottles contain milk.

Luke is the first guy to have tried something so unique that there hasn’t been anybody till date who has ever placed a record for the largest collection of milk bottles. So Luke is the first guy to open the account of this sort by making it into the world records.

 Mr. Luke, who lives in Stanford-le-Hope, Essex, with his wife and daughter, collected his first milk bottle in 1987 when he was earning pocket money working as a milkman's mate. That was time it struck to him to collect   the different ones and started to go a bit out of his hand. Some of the bottles he has collected are very rare and even to put a price tag  on them  may prove to be a little difficult. Every single one of his prized milk bottles are embossed or pyroglazed by a dairy company and feature an advert. Mr. Luke, who now works as a sales rep for a Hertfordshire dairy firm, also owns three old-fashioned milk floats, milk churns and milk measures which preceded bottles.    He now owns a collection of over 10,000 different milk bottles and is still actively collecting more. 

He is keen to look for bottles from a local farm which would have   the dairy’s name  on it. Apart from bottles he also has other  variety of memorabilia  which he has  kept in a museum in his home.

The Largest collection of milk bottles counted to more than 10,000 and was set by Paul luke at Stanford –le-hope , Essex, United Kingdom on January 21,2011.