Just to reiterate, I don’t collect comic books or coins or baseball cards or vintage motorcycles – I collect KLM Dutch houses. It is not a widely held hobby, is full of esoterica, and REAL nerdy folk. If you want a favor from me or to tug at my heart strings, a KLM house will just about do it. If it is a special edition… Well, that will get you favors!

I just scored an ashtray version of KLM house #20 – the Edam Museum. It is one of the non-gin filled houses made for the middle-eastern routes and are much less common than their corked counterparts. My new house was produced by Royal Goedewaagen in Gouda in 1970 and is only one of the 15 types of houses made in the ashtray version – the others being:
1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 14, 15, 17, 21, 22, 23 ,25, 26, 27.

It is in great condition. I bought it from an individual and did not pay retail/collector’s price for it, which is rare for me. I seem to always pay retail for stuff… I am stoked. It will live beside my standard 1980’s version that is still full of gin. STOKED!!

My current hit list for houses is:

House #s: 48, 87, 95, 97, 99, and 100

Any ashtry versions of:  1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 14, 15, 17, 21, 22, 23 ,25, 26, 27

Any special editions like:

• The Cunucu house
• Royal Palace Het Loo
• Frans Hals Museum
• Royal Palace Amsterdam
• The Weigh House Gouda
• House ter Kleef
• Hall of Knights
• Royal Theater Carré
• Royal Concertgebouw
• Maritime Museum Amsterdam