Sitting pretty: Retired plumber builds world's biggest collection of toilet seats

Retired plumber Barney Smith is sitting pretty on a bizarre record - after building the world's largest collection of toilet seats.

Barney, 91, has been collecting the unusual items for more than 40 years, and puts his artistic touch on every seat he collects. Barney displays his 1,100 seat collection in his garage, which doubles as a museum in San Antonio, Texas. He takes the wooden toilet seats, which over the years he has had easy access to due to his job in plumbing, and decorates them with anything from photos, paint and even car registration plates.

Some of his seats feature hand-painted designs by Barney, while others are decorated with native American arrowheads and other nik naks. Barneys collection began after he was searching for a base to display a set of deers antlers at his home in San Antonio. He found that an old toilet seat offered the right dimensions and provided a good base on which to mount the antlers.

'The museum is open on an appointment-only basis, and Ill show anyone who wants to see it.'

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Sitting pretty: Retired plumber builds world's biggest collection of toilet seats