How it started
It started with a mug I left on the shelf in Naples
Middle of summer. Four and a half miles on foot in the heat, and somewhere around mile three my wife asked me why on earth we collect these things.
We got there. I bought the Naples mug. There was an Italia one sat right next to it, and I stood there trying to picture our shelf at home. I was sure we already had it, so I left it.
Back on the ship the kids told me we didn't. It's gone now, unless I pay three times the price online. It wasn't the first time either.
So I built the thing I needed. Something I could check in the shop, with the mug in my hand and no signal.
That was the whole idea at the start. Tick off what's on the shelf, check it before you buy, never bring home a double again.
Tick off your shelf now
The rules we keep
Why you can trust it
Tracking is free, and it stays free.Ticking off your collection, the map, your stories and your souvenirs cost nothing and never will. What we sell is optional and made from your own trips.
Your photos and notes are yours.Nobody sees a photo unless you offer it to the shared library. Nobody sees what you paid unless you say yes when asked.
Prices come from real purchases, never from listings.When a collector records what they paid, money actually changed hands. That's the one number this hobby has never had written down.
Nothing appears until two different people have paid.One price is one person, and one person is identifiable. Your name is never attached to a figure.
Never a marketplace, never a cut.We don't buy, sell or hold anybody's mug, and we never take a commission on a trade. If we made money on trades we couldn't publish honest prices.
Why asking prices aren't enough
The same mug, the same week, three prices
Listed as rare. Asking Still unsold three days later.
Another seller, same week. Asking
What that series actually went for. Sold
One of those sellers is wrong, and without real sold prices nobody can tell which. That's why the Prices tab only ever shows what collectors actually paid.