Collection of more than 500000 items including paper cups,jamjars and soap boxes moves to new west London homeDespite his lunchtime tour of local pound shops, and a pause on the way back to retrieve a particularly piquant paper cup from a bin, and Robert Opie insists he is a social historian,not an obsessed collector.
His Museum of Brands – a display of more than 12000 boxes, cartons, or tins,bottles, jars, or packets,posters, games, and toys and an art deco electric fire in the shape of a Scottie dog – has just found its third,and he hopes final, domestic just off Ladbroke Grove in west London.
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Source: theguardian.com