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Spring Collector fair
2025, 21. - 22. March, hotel Olympik Congress Prague****
Fri: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Sat: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Spring Collector fair
2025, 21. - 22. March, hotel Olympik Congress Prague****
Fri: 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Sat: 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The biggest spring meeting of collectors will take place from 21 to 22 March at the Olympik**** Hotel in Prague. More than eighty dealers from all over Europe will be there.
Visitors will be offered stamps, coins, banknotes, medals, postcards and other collectors’ material, including tools for collectors.
A postal novelty will premiere at the fair – a stamp sheet with a coupon with a Jawa 350 OHV motorcycle motif. It will commemorate 90 years since the legendary model was launched. Its author is the artist Petr Ptáček, who will be available for an autograph session on the first day of the fair.
The first day of the fair will also see the launch of a new 0 euro souvenir banknote with the motif of the Karosa ŠM11 bus. It will be issued in cooperation with the Prague Transport Company, which this year celebrates 100 years of continuous bus operation in Prague.
A new collector’s note from the painter Václav Zapadlík “Gold Collection” will also be on sale.
The main motif is the Aero 50 produced between 1936 and 1941. However, the car depicted was modified by the famous Sodomka coachbuilder, which designed stronger and better equipped bodies, giving the Aero 50 the impression of larger and more powerful cars. The extended engine section and low body structure earned these cars the nickname “Czech Jaguars.”
A postcard, commemorative print and a tin sign will also be available to accompany the new edition at the sberatelshop.cz stand.
The German Post will bring its complete range of stamps to the spring Sberatel fair. Plus a commemorative postcard directly for the fair.
The exhibition “Legends on Collectors’ Artifacts” aims to promote collecting, especially among the younger generation. On display will be a silver coin with action hero Chuck Norris, a medal with the Terminator, a Rocky collector’s note officially issued by Sylvester Stallone or a new stamp sheet from the British Royal Mail dedicated to the band AC/DC.
A separate rarity will be the cover of an 1885 letter with the original signature of the writer Charles Dickens, inviting to a fundraising evening dedicated to the then famous conductor Jules Benedict.
There will also be the popular valuation of collections, which will be handled by experts from the Association of Czech Philatelists, the Czech Numismatic Society, the Autograph Collectors Club, the Curiosity Collectors Club and the Antik Kureš company.
The four-star Hotel Olympik provides wheelchair access for visitors and parking is available nearby. On Fridays you can pay at the parking meter, on Saturdays it is free of charge. The hotel is located a few minutes’ walk from the Invalidovna metro and tram stop.
Nearly 80 exhibitors from all over Europe take part in the fair.
Autograph sessions of famous stamp and medal artists.
Spring Sberatel Fair will be the largest spring gathering of collectors from all disciplines.
A postcard dedicated to the popular Czech band Tata Bojs premiered at the Spring Sberatel 2019.
The hit of the successful Spring Sberatel 2019 was the stamp album of singer Freddie Mercury. It was loaned to Prague by the British Postal Museum and the museum’s curator Stuart Aitken (pictured) came along. This year, a rare original letter addressed to Bomi Bulsara, Freddie Mercury’s father, will be on display.
Nomeclature
You also should not miss the autumn Sberatel / Collector fair which will take place on September 5 and 6 2025 in the PVA Exhibition Grounds in Prague. The Sberatel /Collector is the largest meeting of collectors of post stamps, coins, banknotes, securities, postcards, minerals, and other collector´s items in Central and Eastern Europe. The event is regularly attended by about 230 exhibitors from 35 countries that offer their goods to more than 10,000 visitors.
The Sberatel Fair will be held three times again this year, the spring edition will be followed by the autumn Collector Fair at the PVA Expo Prague (5 – 6 September) and the Christmas Collector Fair (21 – 22 November), again in Olympik.
