Spanish woman claims record after spending 50 years collecting more than 15,000 egg cups

How much do you like eating eggs? Enough to own over 15,000 egg cups?

María José Fuster (Spain) has been collecting for over 50 years and officially has the world’s largest collection of egg cups.

And with a mega 15,485 of them in her possession, she has just about every colour and design you can imagine.

If you browse through them all you’ll find ones painted with pretty patterns, ones shaped like other things, including a horse, and novelty ones for characters like Garfield, Superman and Betty Boop.

María has categorized all of her egg cups in an online blog, listing each of the individual designs she owns.

Check it out here.

And another blog lists people who have contributed to María’s impressive collection.

After more than five decades of building her collection, María was finally able to lay them all out in one space in July 2023 after a new community centre opened in her hometown of Campo, Spain.

She recruited two witnesses to help with the count, and it took them over three hours to complete the round up.

María, a genealogist and historian, loves sharing her collection with others, and 1,143 of her egg cups are on display at a local museum.

Some more egg-cellent records for your enjoyment:

• The largest jewelled egg is the Argyle Library Egg which stands 2 ft tall and was fashioned from 37 lb of gold and studded with 20,000 pink diamonds. Designed by British jeweller Paul Kutchinsky, it took six British craftsmen 7,000 hours to create and has a price tag of £7 million ($12 million).
• The largest scientific egg collection is housed at the Natural History Museum in London, UK, and contains over a million eggs.
• The world’s largest collection of dinosaur eggs is made up over 10,008 individual samples and is kept at the Heyuan Museum, in Guangdong Province, China. All of the eggs come from the late Cretaceous period (100 to 66 million years ago) and include eggs from oviraptorid and duck-billed dinosaurs.
• The largest egg and spoon race was held by Asociación de Avicultores de Tepatitlán A. G. (Mexico) in Tepatitlán de Morelos, Jalisco, Mexico, in 2024 and saw 2,039 people take part.