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
Al I can't believe I overlooked your link when I posted earlier those radio's look amazing! Especially the floorstanding one's what a fantastic collection thanks for sharing the pics.
Thanks Al. Your antique radio collection made me smile.
That's not as easily accomplished nowadays.
I suffer from OCD (obsessive collecting disorder). I collect knives,  used to be any knife but I managed to scale it back to just folders. I also collect hats, books, flashlights, watches and headphones. Financial and space restrictions are my major limiters.

Mark
I think I must collect hobbies:
I keep Koi, play drums, I have a small road bike collection with the requisite vintage no’s parts, there’s my woodworking shop in the garage, golf, I have a small collection of mid-mod abstract animal sculptures, I have a 68 mustang fastback, I like mid-mod danish furniture. 
 






Wine. European.Thousands of bottles. The right choice for any occasion.
Women, yes, earlier in life. Experience, yes, all over, and often and various, so many lucky encounters. Books, from philosophy to botany, and not just music and audio kit. 

Has anyone mentioned plants? I collect the rarest and most special trees, shrubs and perennials.Cultivars of European Beech top the long list of deciduous shade trees, while specimens of 21st Century Epimedium introductions, courtesy of Darrell Probst and Prof. Ogitsu, form the most refined perennial backbone of my enterprise. A hundred various peonies, just to occupy what would otherwise be weed space.

My grounds are a smaller scale arboretum/botanical garden, more compact like Linda Hall but with some specimens equal to those in the vast expanses of Arnold, Morton, etc. I personally plant, mow,  trim,prune and transplant, slowly getting the symbiosis right, having done so for 35 years.
Forgetting a few other things here. But no model trains. No wristwatches. Just wine, Armagnacs, great books, the best cookware, and the finest specimen plants. Plus whatever I'm not remembering just now.
Well, you asked. LOL to the witty answers above.