Displaying Thematic Collections - British Thematic Association

BTA One Page Virtual Competition 2025

76 entries were judged in the internationally accepted categories of Thematic - Culture; Thematic - Nature; Thematic - Technology; Open; Picture Postcard; Youth ages 12 and under; Youth ages 13 - 14; Youth ages 15 - 17. These are the very top entries, given the Diamond award. Click on the thumbnail to view them full size:...

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...

Guidance on Pictorial Collecting: Barry Stagg

At Autumn Stampex 2021 Barry Stagg gave a talk entitled Theme collecting: story telling with stamps? Click here for the PowerPoint slides Click here for the talk as recorded by the Philatelic Traders' Society...

Guidance on Pictorial Exhibiting: Birthe King

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...

Exhibitor Step By Step Guide

See our BTA Seminar led by John Hayward, previous President of the BTA (opens in pdf)...

Forthcoming Exhibitions

NATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS 2024 19 - 20 July. York Coin and Stamp Fair. York Racecourse. This will host the Northern National Exhibition. Closing dat for entry forms 31 May 2024. 23 - 26 October. Stampex. Business Design Centre, Islington INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 2024 25 May. SAVPEX: virtual one-page competition....

Rules and Guidance: links to useful sites

THEMATIC CLASS 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 by Tono Putranto Click here for a YouTube video Thematic Philately by Peter Suhadolc Click here for the F.I.P. seminar How to Prepare a Thematic...

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...

Examples of Exhibits by BTA members: National

Click on Frame+no. to see the exhibit The Road to Independence: Ireland from the Act of Union to Irish Free State. Peter Wood. Autumn Stampex 2017. Large Gold. Open Philately exhibit. Frame 1 Frame 2 Frame 3 Frame 4 Frame 5 _________________________________________________________________________________ The...

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...

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 Thematic, Open and Postcard. Contains entries by two BTA members:...