THE COLLECTOR. Frans (81) owns 300 special walking sticks: “My erotic copy was banned for a long time” | Collectors in Flanders

With a smooth pulse, Frans De Bondt (81) conjures up a knife from a walking stick in the blink of an eye, ‘James Bond-style’. The former fire chief from Lokeren owns more than 300 unique pieces. No matter how crazy you think, Frans has a walking stick made of them… He found them all the way to Tokyo. The man tells how he started his special collection and shows his most special specimens. “Whenever we go out for Chinese food, I always have this homemade stick with me.”