Do you consider yourself a pipe or tobacco collector?

...both...

Co-Lec-Tor (in my best Homer Simpson voice)

Yeah, I like the sound of that. ;-)


Sounds much nicer than "Acquisition Disorder".....

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Both for me.  Or, if I'm being honest, All of them....  Pipes, Tobacco, Accessories, Vintage Tobacco Advertising Art, Ashtrays, Lighters, Tampers et al.

When I got back into tobacco, I quickly surmised that I needed to build a cellar first, as pipes are more robust than burnable tobacco is in a post pro-tobacco world....I could always round up pipes later.

I still ended up with 65-70 pipes, half of which will probably be sold off to fund the same amount of pipes for a 31 day rotation X 2.

I'm not fessing up!

I don't consider myself a collector -- too elegant a term, it implies discrimination. I just feel better with a lot of pipes in the cabinet and a lot of tobacco in the cellar. I'm an aquisitor.

I have a collector gene, I think. That said, I did go through a spell of looking at estate pipes on ebay and buying a few. That buzz soon stopped cos I didn't have the money for the good pipes and I realised that I should be focusing on tobacco.

So I'm a tobacco collector, first and foremost...but I wouldn't turn down the odd pipe here and there to add to my small collection of pipes.

So actually, in summary, I am a collector of both, but my priorities would lean to the tobacco collecting.

I am a collector of both pipes and pipe tobacco. I am fascinated with most aspects of the hobby.

+1. My briar collection has been shrinking steadily for some time. There are less than a dozen which actually get smoked regularly anymore. I haven't purchased a new meer in a while and have no desire for another. It's all about the tobacco in the cellar at this point. 

Interesting. I never really given it any though whether 'collector' is an elegant term. I collect Stanwells, ergo I'm a collector (I'm not elegant though). I have acquired all my other pipes, ergo I'n an acquisitor and I buy tobaccos; I'm a buyer.

While we are talking about terms, I refuse to use the term 'Estate' for second-hand pipes. It's just a silly euphemism, probably invented to make the thought of used pipes more edible to us elegant collectors.
 

Indeed it doesn't. "I found a pair of nice estate shoes in an Oxfam shop just the other day".
I can just hear it.

...and a nice estate hanger to go with it.

Neither. To me a collector buys something to either display to look at or as an investment to sell (hopefully for a profit) at a later date.
I’ve accumulated tobacco, but not to look at, but to smoke. Cellaring deep on McC and Dunhill starting years ago turned out to be prudent. I could flip my McC and make a lot of money, but I bought it to smoke, and still intend to do just that.
All my pipes excluding two box sets of MM pipes, one set being corndogs, remain unsmoked. The MM bamboo set trying to sell at my cost just because it’s a waste to have them and not smoke them IMO. The corndogs however, I may or may not smoke sometime, but would consider those my only “collector” type pipes at the moment.
Pipes I’ve bought, I’ve always intended to use. Those that don’t get used or used enough get moved along.

I am a pipe SMOKER, first and foremost; I collect what enables me to be one...

I suppose I most closely fit with what Danno said here. Even though I have a bunch of pipes and tobacco, I will smoke an unsmoked 1900 pipe the second I get the pipe. I believe a collector would care about keeping pipes unsmoked, on high grades, and that is what differentiates a collector from just a “smoker.” I also seem to notice the real collectors typically don’t smoke as often and have most pipes unsmoked. And I think that’s a total shame. A pipe is to smoke not to put on some shelf.