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.
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.
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 [...]
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.
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.
Kapil Seth (born on August 11, 1977) of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh has collected 121 different used still camera rolls of various companies till July 2011.
Disha Pancholi (born on April 26, 1987) of Mumbai, Maharashtra has collected 75, 795 tickets till August 2011.
V.T. Jolly (born on May 15, 1965) of Kochi, Kerala, has a collection of 13,000 used pens of 3,100 varieties neatly treasured in cardboard boxes. He has categorized them as ball pens, parkers, fancy pens and so on.
Mrs. Shubhangi Apte (born on April 25, 1955) of Raipur, Chhattisgarh collected 25,936 visiting cards and exhibited her visiting card collection on April 27, 2008 at Town Hall, Raipur, Chhattisgarh. She has collected these cards from different countries, like U.A.E, Singapore, U.S.A, India etc and all the visiting cards are different from each other, and [...]
Neeraj Goyal (born on October 8, 1979) of Jhajjar, Haryana has a rare and unique collection of 480 Danish (Denmark) coins from 1888-2004 made up of gold, silver, bronze, zinc, nickel, aluminium and other metal.