Story: Collecting

Model car collection

Peter Howman, one of the organisers of the 1996 Wellington Collectors' Extravaganza, displays the cream of his model car collection. The car he is holding is a Jaguar.

Using this item

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1996/2795

by Ray Pigney

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

Richard Wolfe, Collecting – Recent collecting and collecting motivations, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/37333/model-car-collection (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Richard Wolfe, published 20 November 2012.