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An avid collector ...

At Tim Franklin’s inner-city Hobart home and office, framed newspaper clippings are among the many items on display which are great talking points for visitors and clients.

As well as newspaper clippings and charity certificates – from various organisations, the walls boast countless caricatures and posters and other mostly music-based memorabilia.

Shelves and coffee tables brim with trophies and trinkets collected during his many years of travel around the world as a DJ. He has worked in New York nightclub Studio 54 and interviewed some of the world’s best known entertainers, including Elton John, Meatloaf and Michael Jackson. He even has ornamental guitars which were a gift from Jon Bon Jovi.

Throughout his home are hand-made character teddy bears sporting different outfits and poses. The collection is now 140-strong and still growing.

He also has a collection of panama hats, over 105 watches and more than 40 pairs of glasses.

But his main love in life – apart from his black labradoodle appropriately named Radar Junior – is DVDs.

Thousands of discs fill floor-to-ceiling shelving in the lounge room (nicknamed The Batcave), with hundreds more VHS videos filling another set of shelves. He buys around 10 new DVDs a week to add to his collection.

Tim is quickly running out of space to store his various collections but, having lived in the inner-city cottage for almost two decades, he would be reluctant to leave.