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 don’t collect stuff because I’m into collecting. I end up with collections of stuff because sometimes an individual item will "speak to me," even though I have a similar item already. If that item happens to be one more guitar or fiddle...or one more performance of a Beethoven piano sonata...so be it.
Garden scale steam engines and rolling stock.  Battery and digital remote for power and control.  Accucraft, Bachmann, HLW and a few others.  Circa 1880 to 1910.

IBM (and others) punch cards.

www.ibmjunkman.com

I also had a bunch of other IBM stuff but in my move to a smaller house it had to go. The Computer Museum of America bought it all.

I also had a fair collection of JBL speakers, including the L300.
Managed to sell it all to one person except for 3 sets. Dorian S12 purchased new by me from Allied Electronics on south Western Ave. in Chicago in the late 60s. L222 Disco purchased new 1974. And L65 Jubal bought used in the early 2000s.
Having moved house, my wife says I collect stuff and junk. I just don’t throw out what I should.
Despite cleaning the new house weekly, it seems, as per GK, dust. Where does it all come from?