HOBB’S HOBBY —COLLECTING TEA SPOONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 10

HOBB’S HOBBY —COLLECTING TEA SPOONS

century? r~ Jack Hobbs, the king of century ■; makers, is probably on his last Australian ) cricket tour, and he will have to clo some N travelling if he is to get this particular \ hundred before he returns home. f For Hobb s hobby is collecting teaspoons • (says the Sydney "Sun"). He has nearly ! 60 already. He's after 100. ( He doesn't slip them into his vest pocket i during his meals when dining out. or even .- at his hotel. He buys them. S His idea is to have something as a \ memento of his visit to every Australian i~

■-I town, and he conceived the notion of tea- } spoons, bearing the coat of arms in coloured \ enamel. \ “Some are very pretty,” Hobbs admits ; modestly. "and some are bard to get.” ) Some townships have no coat of arms. \ Others have them, but it is difficult to proi cure a teaspoon bearing them. ■ Some idea of his task may be gleaned from 5 the fact that it took him three years to get ( one of Melbourne. i When a design is particularly pleasing to } the eye J.B. is not content with one spoon. S He buys enough to give one or two to his —: friends if they want them.