Collection
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Biggest Footprints Collage
Karishma Alvares and Master Adriel Alvares, Siblings from Goa collected 6,200 footprints of different peoples on cloths, the collection began on October 26, 2010 and completed on November 13, 2010. All the footprints were stuck together on November 14 with the aim of making a collage in shape of a giant footprint .This collage measured [...]
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Collection Of Credit Cards
K. C. Pandey (48 years) from Vinod Nagar, Delhi has a collection of 75 credit cards issued on his own name as on December 27, 2011 which includes various types of cards like Platinum, Platinum Plus, Royale Signature, Visa Signature, and Premium Signature. The first credit card was issued on May 1999 and he also [...]
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Collection of Response Letters from Dignitaries
Probir Kumar Bose (born on May 1, 1955) of New Panvel, Mumbai has collected 160 letters from various dignitaries like Indira Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul II and various other politicians in response to his letters and emails as a hobby till January 2012. The first letter was sent in 1969 to fourth President [...]
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Most Number of Postage Stamps
Daniel Monteiro (born on January 3, 1962) an internationally renowned philatelist of Udupi, Karnataka conducted the solo exhibition of bird stamps of over 170 species displaying over 5,000 bird postage stamps, featuring birds from 175 countries, on December 8, 2011. The exhibition was held at SMS community Building, Brahmavar and was named as “Birdpex – [...]
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Most Number of Stamps on Ducks
Daniel Monteiro (born on January 3, 1962) of Udupi, Karnataka has a collection of over 1,000 postage stamps of ducks as on December 8, 2011. He displayed his collection in an exhibition held at SMS community Building, Brahmavar and was named as “Birdpex – 2011”.
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One Man Largest Philatelic Exhibition (Birdpex 2011)
Daniel Monteiro (born on January 3, 1962) of Udupi, Karnataka exhibited the biggest philatelic collection -’bird-only stamp show’ in an exhibition “Birdpex – 2011” held at SMS community Building, Brahmavar, Udupi. The expedition continued for two days, from December 7 to December 8, 2011.
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35 Mm Film Collection
Abhijit Dhotre (born on October 3, 1981) of Pune, Maharashtra has collected 287 different types of B/W & color 35mm film rolls (cassettes) of various companies including Kodak, Fuji, Ilford, Poloroid, Sakura, Afga etc from past 15 years.
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Huge Collection of Ancient articles
Shravan Regret Iyer (born on June 22, 1989) of Bangalore, Karnataka has a museum in his family; it was started by his grandfather S. N. Iyer. The family of Regret Iyer from Kothamangalam popularly known as shanubog family of Astagrama Iyers has preserved the ancient articles for the knowledge of the future generation. The [...]
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Matchbox Collection
Sunil Bhatt (born on September 27, 1968) of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh has 9,543 matchboxes in his collection from 42 countries. His collection includes vintages matchboxes priced at 1 paisa to fancy Rs. 35 matchboxes, ‘War Quality’ from World War-II. He has been collecting these matchboxes from last 30 years.
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Collection of Name-Slips
Priyanka Gupta (born on December 21, 1985) of Delhi has 23,952 unduplicated name slips (25,755 name slips with duplicates) from 9 countries in her collection as on August 2011. Her collection includes name slips on Indian Stamps, Cricketers, film stars, tennis player, Indian Air Force Fighter plans, expensive cars, flowers, cartoon characters and many more.