I have a 100+ pound cellar (lifetime at my age and smoking rate) of mostly straight Va's and VaOr blends put away. Enough poundage of Burley for my morning coffee smoke, and maybe 15 pounds of Lat blends, which I rarely touch.

I collect Haymarket era Loewes, and I like to think I have one of the world's nicest small collections of that marque. I bought all but two of them unsmoked.

I also collect Dunhill. After those two, there are a small collection of Comoy's, Charatan, Orlik and Sasieni with them on the rack. There is a micro collection of Russian artists on the bottom row, and I am a big fan of Alexander Ponomarchuk and Andrey Grigoriev. The collection is two pipes away from being finished, so I won't be able to indulge my fondness of Russian pipes more than I have. I set a limit for myself with my collection, because pipe collecting without a focus, for someone like me, runs out of control. Nobody needs hundreds of pipes. I stopped at 60, eventually trimmed down to 40, and there were hundreds of pipes leading up to those 40 keepers. There is not a pipe on my rack that I would part with.