HI!

	They say that collecting is a kind of madness. Otherwise how one 
could explain the fact that thousands of people all over the world make their 
collections... My goodness, what can not used as a material for collections!
	Stamps, coins, collection wines, postcards, beer cans, match labels, 
playbills and even airplanes: As for a collection of paintings it can be sold 
for good money, but any collection of pins or condoms hardly make fortune on it.
Nevertheless, making the collection of such things requires not less efforts. 
On your last penny you buy different things which are seemed to be useless at 
first sight, but collectors take great pride in them. I have to admit that I 
was also obsessed with collecting....
	When I was eleven, children in our school were crazy about playing a 
game that we called "bottle labels". It was nearly the same as stamps and gum 
pictures playing. I was the best player and beat all my schoolmates. Once while 
rummaging in my "trophies" I was struck by a pretty good idea to sort them out. 
There were 124 of them. So, I started making a collection of my own. Mainly it 
consisted of labels from beer and lemonade bottles. But the game was not the 
only way of enriching it.
	After school, I got a job on a construction site. And that was the 
beginning of a real . In Moscow there is the so-called "Ptichiy 
(bird's) Market". They say that everything can be bought there: from a shark's 
fin to a ballistic missile. It was 
the first time when I saw a great number of foreign bottles being sold for a 
reasonable price (this fact was very important). And now, try to imagine: every 
Saturday I went there and came back home carrying onto my back a big rucksack 
fully loaded with empty bottles and having two huge bags in my hands with the 
same glass contents. The rest of Saturday I was preoccupied with gluing the 
labels together and Sunday was a day to sort them out. Now I am desperate while 
thinking about the fact that all my savings were spent to buy empty bottles!
	It took me much time to find some information about my hobby, but in 
vain: Alas!.. That's how I struck upon the idea of this site creation. Recently 
I have found out that some of my friends are great collectors. And I was kindly 
allowed to use their collections. Great thanks for that! And I do hope that 
I will be the only one who will be very much interested while seeing it!
					

				Have a lot of fun!


						Sergey Galikhin