Displaying Thematic Collections
BTA One-Page Virtual Competition
The BTA is excited to announce its first-ever ‘One-Page Competition’. We have launched this to encourage people, regardless of age and experience, to exhibit something from their thematic collection that excites them and will be of wide interest to our members as well as other thematic and topical collectors. The rules are simple,...
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Showing your collection
There will be members who will only collect for themselves and never consider showing their collection to other than perhaps a chosen few. Some, probably those belonging to their local stamp or postcard club, will display some of their material at members' meetings, or respond to an invitation to put on a whole meeting's display. A...
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Guidance on Pictorial Exhibiting
The following guidelines are reproduced with the kind permission of Birthe King (pictured). Thematic Philately A collection of stamps and other philatelic items that illustrate a theme. The term ‘theme’ has a dynamic meaning implying the personal elaboration by the collector, who develops a story around it. A collection consists...
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Guidance on Postcard Exhibiting
Click here for a presentation (pdf) given by Barry Stagg at the 2018 BTA Weekend entitled Postcards, Or Shall we venture into the unknown? Its purpose is to give the viewer confidence in putting together a Postcard exhibit. Among other things it covers why it is good to exhibit, and why now; the definition of a postcard; where to buy cards...
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Exhibitor Step By Step Guide
See our BTA Seminar led by John Hayward, previous President of the BTA (opens in pdf)...
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Rules and Guidance: links to useful sites
THEMATIC CLASS Click here for guidance from the F.I.P. Thematic Commission What is Thematic Philately? [Click on 'Beginners' Pages' on the left-hand menu] Click here for the Stockholmia seminar Analytical Approach Toward Thematic Philately by Yukio Onuma Click here for for the F.I.P. seminar How to Improve a Thematic Exhibit...
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Forthcoming Exhibitions
*** DUE TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC EVENTS MAY BE POSTPONED OR CANCELLED. PLEASE CHECK WITH ORGANISERS FOR UP TO DATE INFORMATION ** NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS Autumn Stampex 2020 was replaced by a Virtual Stampex. The BTA will now be the lead society at Autumn Stampex 2021. All British ABPS exhibitions are now open to non-competitive...
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Examples of Exhibits: BTA Competitions
BTA members who have entered either the John Fosbery Trophy for Open Philately, the BTA Cup for Thematic Philately or the Brian Sole Trophy for Postcards are invited to send in good quality scans of their entries to put on our website. Thematic Philately - 1 frame Pillars of the Community. Wayne Cox (2018) What Can The Matter...
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Examples of Exhibits by BTA members: National
Click on Frame+no. to see the exhibit The Dove and Olive Branch. Grace Davies. Autumn Stampex 2017. Gold. Thematic Philately exhibit. Frames 1 - 2 _____________________________________________________________________________ Paper Past and Present. Wendy Buckle. Autumn Stampex 2018. Gold. Thematic Philately exhibit....
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Examples of Exhibits by BTA members: International
Click on Frame+no to see the exhibit Peter Weir. Liquid of Life: blood, from an ancient myth to a modern medicine. New York 2016 and Verona 2019. Gold. Thematic exhibit Frame 1 Frame 2 Frame 3 Frame 4 Frame...
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Examples of Exhibits: International, multi-sites
Sites with multiple exhibits. Please note the BTA is not responsible for the content of external sites, and we do not hold a view on the marks given. SAVPEX: South African Philatelic Federation Virtual One-Frame Exhibition. A multi-disciplinary exhibition including six Thematic entries (class 3), nine Open entries (class 7) and four Postcard...
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