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    Miniature soldiers


    Mickey's House of Soldiers

    Mickey Patterson has a personal collection of 250,000 military miniatures


    Walking by Mickey's House of Soldiers, a model and hobby shop, it's hard not to notice the hundreds of toy soldiers and boxes of model cars that line the store's front windows. But it is just the miniature soldiers that are the passion of the store's owner Mickey Patterson. He's trying to get rid of the rest of the boxed toys and models, he says. Patterson, who prefers to be called just 'Mickey,' says he has the world's largest collection of historical military miniatures and has challenged anyone to prove him wrong. With 250,000 miniatures, he boasts a collection even larger than that of the millionaire and magazine owner Malcolm Forbes, who had just 93,000, Mickey says.   More

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