
Saturday, 17 July 2010
Fridge Magnet -
Fridge Magnet - Holland
Fridge Magnet - Southampton FC (Southampton, England)
Fridge Magnet - Spinnaker Tower (Portsmouth, England)



Fridge Magnet - Blenheim Palace (England)
Fridge Magnet - London transport
Fridge Magnet - Berlin
Fridge Magnet - Sarawak (Malaysia)
Fridge Magnet - A little bit history of fridge magnet
The first refrigerator magnet patent was obtained by William Zimmerman of St. Louis, Missouri, in the early 1970s.[citation needed] Zimmerman patented the idea of small, colored, cartoon magnets to be used for decorative display and convenience.
Popular Hobby
Collecting magnets, such as city and county magnets from all around the world, became a popular hobby, as also collecting of many other memorabilia. Many people are bringing refrigerator magnets from cities, sights, places and countries they've been to, because such magnets are popular and inexpensive touristic souvenirs.
Though there is no official term (like numismatics) for collecting magnets, but with a growing interest to this subject there is some approach by collectors to find a proper term. For instance, a russian collector proposes a term memomagnetics (Russian: мемомагнетика), derived from words memoriale (lat.) andmagnetis (gr.)[2]. Then a collector of magnets would be called memomagnetist. These terms were accepted by the biggest Russian online community for magnet collectors.[3]
[edit]World record
A largest collection of refrigerator magnets belongs to Louise J. Greenfarb also known as The Magnet Lady, [4] from Henderson, Nevada (suburb of Las Vegas, USA). Her world record was included to the Guinness World Records with 19,300 items as of 1997[5]. According to the British "Book of alternative records", it grew to 29,000 as of February 2002, and later up to over 30,000 items.[6]. Over 7,000 magnets from Greenfarb's collection are exhibited at the Guinness Museum in Las Vegas.[7]