Does anyone collect something else other than music.


 I guess all of us must be collectors at heart, both music and kit, but are there other collecting obsessions out there? Many people collect watches, cars, mountain bikes and so on.

I have started a small collection of good Scotch malt whisky. Always loved whisky, but never studied the range and quality available. It may be a bit easier for me, living in the UK, although most bottles seem to be available in the US, at comparable prices too. The only drawback is that I don't get to drink any of the good stuff, as the collection is something I intend to leave to my kids, who all have tastes above their pay grade. Whisky has always been collectable, but prices do seem to be on the up. It is staggering what bottles, particularly of the best distilleries and closed ones, can go for. Prices over £100,000 for one bottle, aren't unusual, with interest from all over the world.

 I like all whisky, but my current favourite is probably Caol Ila, a not too heavily peated  Islay distillery. Glad to say my consumption has remained very modest. Unfortunately, when we emerge from Covid 19, I think there are going to be a lot more problem drinkers.

 So what do you collect? If you are a whisky fan too, perhaps post your favourites and bottles worth collecting.

Thanks


david12
I collect posts here. Particularly the one's where members say how they sneak gear in without their wives knowledge, or at least when they greatly downplay the costs. I will use the blackmail money to improve my system. HA. 
Hand carved duck decoys, German beer steins and shot glasses from all over the world. Cannot pass up a good local bar and some regional spirits.🥃
I own over 4,000 vinyl LP's.  They are openly displayed in cabinets in my living room.  Once at a party someone said that it was a nice collection.  Until that moment, I'd never considered myself a collector.  I bought my first album when I was 12 years old...I am now 66.  I've never intentionally collected any LP's.  I woke up 54 years later with 4,000 records that I ACCUMULATED.  Collecting was never my intent.

In the 1980's I was somewhat a sartorial dandy.  All of my suits were custom made and all of the pants were made without belt loops.  Consequently, I needed something to hold my pants up.  Over the years I accumulated over 60 pairs of Trafalgar braces.  I don't wear them any longer...but I am getting a wall display case made to display about 20 pairs of them.  Some of them are truly works of art and they deserve better than to be hidden somewhere in a box.  They too are an accumulation, it was never my intent to have a 'collection'.
It's like the guy that goes out to his garage one day and sees that It's full of 'stuff'.  He never intended to collect anything...he woke up one day and sees all the stuff he accumulated.
This subject has appeared before.

https://forum.audiogon.com/posts/1892888

But, I’ll bite again....I collect:

Porcelain insulators, the electric pole variety (Victor, Fred M. Locke, A.B.Chance, Ohio Brass, Lapp, etc., etc.)


Locomotive air horns, the real thing (Nathan Airchime, WABCO, Leslie, no relation to Leslie speakers, Prime, Nabtesco) not J. C. Whitney pretend versions


...plus lots of electronic components, vacuum tubes and tools to build amplifiers and preamps