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Place of Birth: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
About Praful Thakkar
- Praful Thakkar - Hobby is for Health and Happiness.
- Praful Thakkar (born February 25, 1940) is a double Limca Book Record Holder in 2009 for Autographs & Canteen Tokens and indeed is a collector of autographs, stamps, First Day Covers (FDCs), coins, medals, tokens, badges, badge plates etc.
- and many more collectibles of India since last more than 50 years.
- He has written several books on these subjects of Hobbies. Hobby is for Health & Hobby is for Happiness is motto of his life.
- The hobbies of Autograph, Philatelic and Numismatic collection have given him new energy and enthusiasm.
- For him any such hobby is a worship that keeps him pure, fit and healthy.
- People have hobbies for happiness and harvesting profit in future.
- For him, it is for keeping good health too. He is an avid collector of various collectibles like numismatic & para-numismatic items, Stamps & First Day Covers and Autographs of Indian/World celebrities.
- As a collector, he has faced many difficulties in collecting, understanding and arranging the collection.
- The same may happen with the new collectors and they may face similar hurdles too.
- To overcome such situations and to encourage various hobbies and to preserve such a classic collection of Indian heritage, he has made attempts through Collector’s Guides & websites. For numismatic collectors, he has authored Collector's Guide to Indian Canteen Tokens, Collector's Guide to Membership Badges of Turf & Race Clubs of India, Collector's Guide to Chronologies of Sultans, Rulers & Colonial Heads of India and Chapras: Collector's Guide to Belt Buckles, Badges and Badge Plates of India. For philatelic collectors, he has written Collector's Guide to Covers & Folders of India 1947-1964 - Official & Private.
- Through this book, he has tried to give a dimension to Philatelic facet of early classic period by cataloging Official FDCs, Private FDCs and Folders of this time. For lovers of Indian Autographs, he has written a book Glimpses of Indian Autographs.
- This book is first of its kind and contains around 600 autographs of Indian celebrities in 8 major groups which are further divided in 42 different categories. His three websites Indian Autograph Gallery, World Autograph Gallery, and Indian Numismatics have made landmarks in their respective hobby fields of Numismatics and Autograph collection as they present rich Indian heritage. He developed the hobby of collecting Art, Autographs and Numismatic objects in his own way.
- He believes that hobbies are ‘Pleasure for you & Treasure for Family’ and a way to 'Share the Knowledge & Spread the Knowledge'.
- In true spirit of practising his life's motto, he has created the websites and written books that will be helpful for aspiring hobbyists.
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