Philatelic Youth Council (PYC) New Zealand - Youth Philately

When putting your open class exhibit together look for opportunities to include "mini philatelic studies" where possible. These provide you as the exhibitor to show philatelic depth within the framework of your exhibit.

For example on page 6 or the example exhibit above there is a "mini study" on the UK Post an Go labels, showing the sparrow with normal and error printing label. Some other forms of mini study could explore perforations, paper differences and multiple printings of an issue, such as the Ireland blackbirds shown on page 7 of the exhibit above.

Non Philatelic Material - related material Includes:

Kowhai flowers - From the trees in the exhibitor's garden Pg.3

Greeting Card - Showing Fantails Pg.4

Fly Catcher Corner - Has since had a plastic fly added to it. Pg.4

Bread Bag (part) - Cut from plastic bread bag. Pg.8

Guitar Pic - Showing volume bars Pg.8

Philatelic Material - Stamp and postal material Includes:

Stamps - Mint and Used as well as blocks, strips etc ...

Covers - With Stamps used for commercial postage

Miniature Sheets - shown on Pg.2

Maximum Cards - Pg.2

Meter Marks

UK, Post and Go Labels - Pg.6

Above is an 8 Page open class exhibit called "Birds in my Garden"

This exhibit was created by an 11 year old exhibitor at their first stamp camp

Click on an image above to get the full view of the relevant page.

In an Open class exhibit you can have both philatelic and non-philatelic material included within the exhibit.

The general rule is that the non-philatelic material should not exceed 50% of the total exhibit. Care needs to be taken to ensure that the overall presentation of the exhibit is not unbalanced by the non-philatelic material that is used throughout.

All the elements of thematic class still apply to the creation of the exhibit. You need to have a plan, good story line and effective philatelic information appropriately placed.

Open Exhibit Example - Birds in my Garden