Stanley Gibbons Share Discussion Threads

[don carter] 05/8/2011 08:00

Yep, good but will it be a safe haven?

[jeanesy] 05/8/2011 07:43

Results look pretty good to me , but i fear there will be panic this morning after heavy falls on the dow and hong kong indices!

[tom.muir] 04/8/2011 09:42

results out tomorrow

[jeanesy] 03/8/2011 14:32

2 big buys reported this morning on lse of 200,000 shares. Surely these are not pi trades, news coming soon ?

[aim_trader] 03/8/2011 14:00

.. wrong thread.. sorry

[battlebus2] 26/7/2011 20:43

Noble Investments (UK) PLC

("Noble Investments" or the "Group")

Appointment of Auctions Manager, Stamp Division

Noble Investments (AIM:NBL), the international rare coin and stamp dealer and auctioneer, is pleased to announce that Colin Avery has joined the Group's stamp division, Apex Philatelic Auctions ("Apex Philatelic"), in the role of Auctions Manager. Based at the London offices in Adelphi Terrace, Colin will work alongside Tim Francis and Rick Warren to continue to promote and expand the Apex Philatelic brand.

Prior to joining Apex, Colin was with Stanley Gibbons for nearly 15 years, most recently as Associate Director of their auctions department.

Colin will once again be working alongside Olivia Odell, who also recently joined Apex Philatelic from Stanley Gibbons-owned Fraser Autographs, where she was a senior member of the autographs department.

Ian Goldbart, Managing Director of Noble Investments, commented: "Colin and Olivia both bring considerable experience and knowledge to the Group and will play important roles in building on the solid foundations established by Rick and Tim over the last 17 years. Colin's and Olivia's input will help to drive the Group's stamp division forward, and we look forward to working with them to further develop this part of the business."

[arthur_lame_stocks] 16/7/2011 21:21

I'm reading jeanesy

[jeanesy] 15/7/2011 22:12

Another article , posted to myself seeing no-one else is bothered . I popped in to a large stamp fair in york today. It seemed very busy

[jeanesy] 15/7/2011 08:00

Article released on proactive investors about sgi100 index and penny black prices
Time for a move upwards please! is there anybody there?

[jeanesy] 14/7/2011 10:23

NBL and avr both up today , time for a rise please sgi !

[jeanesy] 08/7/2011 16:42

Poor recent performance. is this down to the negative press comment from a few weeks ago?

[dashton42] 04/7/2011 06:44

There was an interesting article in the FT's How To Spend It magazine this weekend on collecting Chinese stamps, in which SGI got a brief mention.

The article was in the "Past Masters" section, and although it doesn't seem to have made it to the online magazine yet, hopefully it will get there eventually...

[robinnicolson] 29/6/2011 10:29

An interesting read:

[jeanesy] 22/6/2011 19:54

Seems like we are!

[jeanesy] 20/6/2011 20:34

Are we going to see a shareprice decline on the back of this article? This share was my solid investment in difficult times.

[2020hindsight] 19/6/2011 23:38

I'm not an investor in Stanley Gibbons' shares, but I do have a sizeable investment in stamps through them on various deals.

As a customer I'm definitely more wary of them now - the Investor mailshots I've been receiving for I'd say around 12 months have become more of the "get rich quick" type, almost cowboy in nature. Very pushy and gushy, lots of marketing bullsh*t. The ones they used to produce were more toned down and appealed to me more.

For example, the way they are pushing China at present is something to be wary of. Sure, there's some real money to be made, but China is the equivalent of the tech stocks. Lots of talk, lots of hype, lots of people buying in - and at some point will suffer a downturn. But they don't warn you of that.

They have made other mistakes. Again personally speaking their Active Management Portfolio was fabulous for the investor - for a year and a half I was making around 6% a quarter. SG was selling me the stamps at 90% of list, and getting half the profit. I guess it helped SG's cash flow at the time, but I suspect it was too generous - and hence why they stopped it.

[wilmdav] 19/6/2011 21:30

Yes, some of us have expressed deep unease about the mismatch between the quality of SGI's brand name and marketing that would be more appropriate for a high street discount store. I have not looked at any of their material lately but the article suggests there has been little change. In which case I hope the directors take note.

[battlebus2] 19/6/2011 20:54

That's the one part of the business i'm not keen on and i believe a few other posters here have already aired their concerns. I for one would bin it!

[2020hindsight] 19/6/2011 13:04

SG in for a bit of a slating in the Sunday Telegraph

[jeanesy] 14/6/2011 19:19

Not until today battlebus. Onwards and upwards please.

[battlebus2] 10/6/2011 20:59

Well £2 barrier broken today.

[jeanesy] 10/6/2011 20:53

Nice article on 3rd page

[robinnicolson] 08/6/2011 19:20

In my experience on this website, the best businesses tend to have the quietest BB's. Just look at the companies which generate the most chatter... oil exploration, mining, penny stocks etc... pure speculation.
I prefer to invest in high quality businesses such as Stanley Gibbons. I added more to my SIPP a few weeks ago.