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5th March 2025
Last year, we brought you 1,050 Reasons to Attend Virtual Stampex. With even more Talks, Displays, Specially Selected Shop Items, Giveaways, and new features, we have even more reasons to attend the show this year.
Virtual Stampex 2025 is Live from the 6th to the 8th March 2025, and will be accessible On Demand until the 6th April.
39 Booths to explore
The Booth Halls include a wide of dealers, auction houses, online platforms, and societies. All Booths are verified PTS Members and trusted member affiliates. There is also a new feature for VS25 - the eBay Coin Hall with 10 Booths for you to browse and enjoy.
Booths are interactive - you can click on images, links, open documents and videos, browse specially selected items for sale, download resources into your Virtual Briefcase, and you can chat with Booth Reps using our fully integrated chat feature - via text, audio, and video.
There are also links to subscribe to mailing lists, follow on social media, and Leave a Message.
Look out for special offers, prize draws, discount codes, new auction and stock alerts, free educational material and insights!
Use the live chat to ask questions, or just to say hello to your fav dealer! (maybe you'll even meet a new fav!)
Think about which Booth is your fav and vote so we can award the most popular with the Virtual Stampex Best Booth Award 2025.
Last year, Premium Booth, A14. Empire Philatelists won the Best Booth Award. Who will win this year?
List of some of the Booths you'll find at Virtual Stampex 2025:
A0: Spink & Son – Show Sponsor
A1: Mark Bloxham Stamps – Premium Booth Holder
A5: Bill Barrell Ltd. – Premium Booth Holder
A6: BB Stamps – Premium Booth Holder
A14: Empire Philatelists – Premium Booth Holder
A16: Philately.live – Premium Booth Holder
A17: Purves Philatelics – Premium Booth Holder
B0: Royal Mail
B1: Art Stamped
B6: ThematiX
B14: Martin Townsend
B23: StampAuctionNetwork
B26: Isle of Man, Jersey, Guernsey & Ascension Island
B30. Philasearch
B31. Robert A. Siegel International Auctioneers
B32. Brixton Chrome
B33. IGPC
C1. eBay Coin Hall
S1: The Royal Philatelic Society London
S2: American Philatelic Society
S3: Stamp Active Network
59 Keywords
Looking for a specific Booth at Virtual Stampex? Use our Guide > Keyword Search to select from 59 categories and see which Booths offer what you are looking for. Then you can simply click through to visit the Booth you want to chat more with.
22 Stampex Talks
Since 2020, we have brought you 10 Live Talks a year in our Stampex Auditorium but this year we've packed our Auditorium with 22 Talks!
You can browse all Talks to plan your time and you can pop a reminder in your calendar for the ones you'd like to attend in person. When you're ready to Join, click on the Join button and the Talk window will pop up within the Virtual Stampex platform.
Each Talk includes a presentation / discussion as well as live Q&A if you are able to attend during the scheduled time.
Can't make a Talk live? Don't worry, Talks recordings are posted back into the Auditorium for you to watch in your own time from the 6th March until the 6th April.
You can also vote for your fav Talk here: Best Talk Award 2025 | The PTS & Stampex
Here are just some of the Talks subjects you'll find at the show:
Mail Robbery In Military Conflicts 1745-1945
An insight into Philatelic Publications from the RPSL
Stamps prepared for use but never issued.
Why collect postal labels and markings?
Here Be Dragons
1810-1880 Great Britain Postal Reform and The Development of the Penny Value
Astrophilately: Intersection of Space and Postal History
Britain's First Stamp Engravers
Telling stories through Topical and Thematic collecting
Interception of Mail in the South Atlantic During World War II
For the full schedule, visit stampexinternational.com/talks
22 Roundtable Sessions
Our most popular feature is back! Now with up to 40 seats per session! Get ready to join your friends for these informal discussions, meet & greets and more.
All you need to do to attend a Roundtable is navigate to the Roundtables Hall, find the session you're interested in and press Join Now. The Roundtable forum will automatically load within the Virtual Stampex platform. Seats are allocated on a first come first served basis. Roundtables are a little bit like a Zoom webinar/ Teams call so you can chat via video, audio, and/or text chat.
Some topics to whet your appetite:
Is the Hobby Dying?
Stand Out and Thrive: Essential Strategies for Your Philatelic Society
The Future of Exhibiting
The 40 Year Old Philatelic Virgin
Postcrossing Meetup
Social Media Guide for Societies
Practical Tips for Exhibiting
How to get more collectors to attend philatelic events
10 Insider Tips for Stamp Auctions
AI for Philately
For the full schedule, visit stampexinternational.com/roundtables
A Collectors Lounge
You will be able to chat with other collectors (and some of the PTS & Stampex Team, Booth Reps, Displayers, Roundtable Hosts, and Talks Speakers!) in our Collectors Lounge Chatroom.
1,211 Specially Selected Items in our Show Shop
So, last year we had 237 specially selected items in our in-show Shop. This year, we have over 1,200 items for you browse! We told you Virtual Stampex is getting bigger and better every year - we are constantly investing in this show and we are grateful to all of our PTS Members who contribute to making your experience richer!
Scroll, search, explore items from our trusted PTS Members and if you see something you'd like, send an "Order" to the Booth Rep. The Booth Rep will then contact you direct to arrange for invoicing and shipping. Some items are discounted compared with what you would find on the dealer's online shop or eBay store. Most items are one of a kind!
You can also use the Shop to get an idea of other items Booths might be able to help you with. Below if a sample of some of the items from Booth A1: Mark Bloxham Stamps.
63 Countries represented (so far...)
Why do we run Virtual Stampex 24 hours a day?... Well, this is a truly global event. Open to all and free to attend. Virtual Stampex allows you to connect with the best best of a philatelic show without the need to travel.
So far, we have had registrations from collectors, enthusiasts, and enquiring novices from 63 different countries.
£500 Gift Voucher up for grabs
Take part in our Philatelic Mastermind Quiz and be in with the chance of winning a £500 Gift Voucher to use at Stanley Gibbons. There is a runner up prize too - a £100 Stampex Smilers Gift Voucher!
Visit Booth X2 to enter!
Giveaways and Discount Codes
For the sake of this (abstractly named) blog post, we're adding 370 more reasons to attend the show to account for a £100 giveaway offer from Empire Philatelists, a £100 giveaway offer from Purves Philatelics, a $125 postage giveaway from Art Stamped, 15% off code at BB Stamps, 10% off code at Mark Bloxham Stamps, and 20% off code at IGPC. See Booths for more information, and terms.
10 Clues We also have our popular Stampex Bug Hunt taking place at the show so if you don't want to buy a toy as a gift or souvenir from the show, you can always try to win one! More information at stampexinternational.com/win
47+ Documents and Videos to download into your Virtual Briefcase
Another great thing about Virtual Stampex is that you don't have to break your back carrying catalogues and price lists around with you. You can browse our Documents and Video Vault and click to add them to your "Swag bag" or Virtual Briefcase. You can then email yourself everything in your Briefcase!
You will find links to catalogues, price lists, activity books, magazine articles, and more on Booths so make sure you check Company Description, Links below the Booth, links on images, and you ask the Booth Rep in the live chat if you are looking for something in particular.
50 Displays
Last year we piloted 20 Displays in our Display your Way Hall. This year, we are thrilled to showcase 50 Displays including a wide range of subjects - from beginner level collections, to experienced collectors seeking feedback, to award winning International Exhibits! You can search for Displays or swipe left and right in the Hall to discover stories, get inspired, and share ideas.
Each Display allows you to view a pdf copy of the Display, and to ask Questions or provide comment in the integrated Q&A box associated with each Display. There may even be a Video link associated with the Display for you to watch.
Here are some of the Displays you'll find at Virtual Stampex 2025:
Stampex Souvenir Material Over the Years
Great Britain Security Machins Pattern Lettering from 2009 issue
Shipboard Markings of the Norwegian Travelling Post Offices
Forgeries
Mr. Wiggles' #Philadventures in Canada
20th Century Passport Stamps of Sudan
From Isolation to Unity, Stamps of Solidarity Amidst the Pandemic
Innovative quiz games for GB stamp collectors
Tuberculosis, the Chest X-ray and Postal Services
Africa - QE2 Rarities
Single Frankings used as 15 existing postage-rates during Victorian Era
Cambridge and Oxford College Stamps
German involvement in the Middle East during WW1
72 Hours of Live Chat
With chat available via text, audio, and video, Q&As, 20+ Chatrooms, and thousands of logins, Virtual Stampex has been built to handle thousands and thousands of messages!
So, get chatting! Use this 72 hour event as a chance to connect with dealers, auctioneers, fellow philatelists and friends!
Our Support Team is available 24 hours a day. Just click on the Help button if you need any technical support.
Top tip: keep your chatroom experience running smoothly by closing down any chats you are finished with (the chat history will still be there!), ideally keeping your chats under 40. Can you be chatting with 40 people or in 40 chatrooms at once? Maybe!
So... that's a heck of a lot of reasons to attend Virtual Stampex 2025....
39 Booths to explore
59 Keywords
22 Stampex Talks
22 Roundtable Sessions
A Collectors Lounge
1,211 Specially Selected Items in our Show Shop
63 Countries represented (so far...)
£500 Gift Voucher up for grabs
Giveaways and Discount Codes
10 Clues
47+ Documents and Videos to download into your Virtual Briefcase
50 Displays
72 Hours of Live Chat
We make that 2,466 reasons!
Free to attend, open 24 hours a day, live from 08:00 London time on Thursday 6th March, closing 08:00 London time on Sunday 9th March.
The show is then available On Demand (no live interaction) until the 6th April.
Register ahead/ Login at https://stampex.vfairs.com
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