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BRITISH THEMATIC ASSOCIATION
Barry Stagg
Chairman
www.britishthematic.org.uk
Presented to the American Topical Association.Saturday 24th June 2017
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The UK’s national association for theme-based philately and
postcard collecting.
Julia Todd, Fishes of the world
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Jim Etherington, 1940’s exhibit
Founded in 1984, the
BTA supports
both individual
and groups of thematic collectors.
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Currently we have 164 individual
members and 12 associated
groups.
Lesley Marley, Whales
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This includes Open (Display) collectors who include non-philatelic material and ephemera in their collections.
Jean Alexander, Supermarket Philately
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The BTA seeks to promote theme-
based philately and postcard collecting to new audiences
and increase understanding of
the philatelic discipline.
Ron Backhouse, Tennis exhibit
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Most BTA members are
collectors. They do not show their material and do
not exhibit.
Wendy Buckle, Illuminated Manuscripts
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Mixing Postcard and Thematic
collecting is also popular.
Jim Gray, Golf
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Barry Stagg, Parachuting Postcards exhibit
The BTA has only recently added its
support to Postcards
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The BTA now supports Pictorial
collecting: Thematic, Open and Postcards.
Ron Backhouse, Tennis
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The BTA holds three competitions each year. All are 16 sheets:1. BTA Cup for Thematic Philately2. John Fosbery Trophy for Open Philately3. Brian Sole Trophy for Postcards
Lesley Marley, Whales
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The BTA has two or three meetings a year, often joint
with another society. Every two years we have a weekend event covering many
aspects of Pictorial collecting.
Jim Etherington, 1940’s exhibit
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Telling a story is a significant
part of theme-based
collecting.
Norman Hudson, The Traveller’s TreeAnne Stammers, Rock to Riches
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Erene Grieve, Advertising
Some collectors
like to research in
depth.
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Charles Oppenheim, Chess
BTA members collect on a very wide variety of topics including
chess, roses, bicycles,
waterfalls, railways, aircraft, peace and paper.