A flight attendant has collected 1,760 spoons from 447 airlines.

Dieter Kapsch works for Austrian Airlines said the first had come from Lauda Air, picked up 13 years ago when he went to Spain with his sister. “She left the spoon with me and I liked it a lot,” he said. “It always reminded me of a nice holiday. I decided to collect spoons from every airline I was flying with and after some time I wanted them all.”

after some time I wanted them all

One, bearing the letter “C” and a crown, comes from a British Airways Concorde. Another, 80 years old, was used on Imperial Airways, a British company which operated from 1924 to 1939.