A tiny creature it may be, but the Rat is one of the animals that feature prominently in the stamps owned by veteran Singaporean collector Johnny Lowis. At the height of his hobby, he had almost a million stamps – 950,000 to be exact – on various subjects. He recently sold half his collection for a tidy sum (about S$60,000/ RM182,240) to a few Singaporean stamp dealers and via online auction. He also gave some away to the Boy Scouts in Indonesia, a country close to his heart because he was born there.