Do you know of anyone who has a proper thumbtip collection?
(Not just someone with a lot of thumbtips. I'm wondering if anyone actually collects them.)
I've recently discovered that I have 33 different kinds, but I've got to imagine that plenty of other people have more.
I'm thinking of displaying mine all lined up in a row on my bookcase.

Nope, I only buy them as workers. I believe I used an Adam's metal one for about 10 years until Vernet come out with theirs, then had that for some 15 years until I sat on it and cracked it. I do have some none descript, but my favorite are my P&L metal ones. I did put one in a display box once, but I did not like the look of the gimmicks in the glass top box. So I removed them and forgot about such a display.

The late Neil Foster's wife took all his gimmicks and glued them to vase, then painted the whole thing in gold paint. It was really neat looking and very attractive. Thus that is why I tried the box thing, as I did not want to spoil the gimmicks for art.

I don't collect them I have many.Most of the same type.The type that fit's and works best for me.I hardly leave home without one.It's one of the my most important gimmicks
I own. Simple magic at its best.
Todd

Besides the normal TT's of different sizes, I have 2 Dlites, 2 color changing Dlites,2 flippers by Rocco, one with a wick, one with a striker flint wheel, a TT with a reel attached, and a few more I can't recall at this time. Total is around 30.

Sounds suspiciously like a collection to me . . .

Somewhere I, too, have a wick-tip and a tip with a long black spring. (I had an explanation for both of these here, but decided it was too revealing in open forum.)

I don't intentionally collect. I bought a few for various applications such as a metal tip, and some have come bundled as a gimmick such as Juan Pablo bill production .The there's vinyl, rubber etc. I guess I have a collection. LOL

Darwin has a collection of different and odd types of thumb tips which he shows in his Encylopedia of Thumb Tip Magic set. It is a good DVD set, so check it out.

I have (probably) the WORLD'S ONLY "DOUBLE ENDED" TT. It was a "gift" from Tom Ladshaw.

Ha Dick
what exactly do you mean by double ended?
Todd