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A real ale fan has spent more than 40 years amassing the world's biggest collection - of BEER TRAYS. Richard Percival, 62, has forked out thousands of pounds on metal brewery trays which he stores ...

His oldest tray is a copper piece from a Black Country brewery called Fred Cutler which dates back to around 1870. But his favorite is an oval tray from Warwicks & Richardsons brewery in Newark, Notts ...

But his oldest one, an 1870s oval tray from Black Country brewer Fred Cutler, is brass, while others are aluminium and he has a handful of plastic ones too. He says his most prized ones are the ...

1.5 x 21.5 cm. (0.6 x 8.5 in.) ...