Most of my expensive possessions are known due to having insurance for them. Anything I collect I have my data stored on some database, such as brickset for my legos and TCG for my cards. This is mainly incase something happens to me, my kids/spouse know at least the rough value of these things. Anybody who actually collects anything is going to want to have at least a rough inventory of what they have. You dont have to put your address on some sort of public registry.


many people collect things to display them. No one is wearing their MJ game worn jersey around. People are not reading their expensive comics/taking their toys out of their original packaging. Many car collectors dont drive their exotics. Museums are literally a thing.