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THE 6^TH INTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS FAIR PROVED SUCCESSFUL

(26 March 2012)

The weekend marked by collectors at the Ljubljana Exhibition and Convention Centre was yesterday successfully concluded. The Collecta in the three days gathered almost 6,000 visitors, 130 collectors and merchants from 17 countries, even from China and Canada. The fields most heavily represented at the fair were philately, numismatics, cartophily and mineralogy.

Impressions of the fair can be viewed in our Photo Gallery >>.

FIRST AND SECOND DAY IMPRESSIONS

(24 March 2012)

MORE THAN 200 BOARD GAMES!

(22 March 2012)

The thematic exhibition »Believe it or not!« will for the first time in Slovenia present the biggest collection of board games. The visitors will among the 200 games see more than 20 different types of the game Monopoly, various types of the game Don't Get Angry!, Activity, Memory, Dominoes, special editions of Catan, games which are derived from books (the Lord of the Rings, the Hobbit, Pippi Longstocking) etc. The three most interesting and rare variants of Monopoly will be on sale at the auction on Saturday.

THE LIST OF PARTICIPANTS IS KNOWN

(12 March 2012)

At this year’s Collecta there will be present collectors and traders from 14 different countries – Austria, Canada, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Croatia, Hungary, India, Italy, Lithuania, Polland, Serbia and Slovenia. The majority of collectors and traders will put on display collectins of philately, numismatics, minerals, fossils and jewels.

You can see the list of participants, still being populated, here >>.

COLLECTA 2012 PROGRAMME

(12 March 2012)

Besides a fair area, visitors of this year’s Collecta will be able to buy, exchange and sell different collecting pieces, but also take part in an accompanying programme, a rarity among collecting fairs.

Besides the traditional thematic exhibition, this year called Believe it or not! (sl. Saj ni res pa je!), we are also preparing an educational programme in form of different presentations for adults and children as well as three interesting auctions on Saturday:

THIS YEAR'S COLLECTA OFFERS...

(2 March 2012)

...a wide variety of collecting pieces from many collectors and traders. Visitors will be able to buy old books, prints, small collecting pieces and works of art at two auctions, take part into many lectures and be able to see the traditional thematic exhibition, this year humorously called Beleive it or not! (slov. Saj ni res, pa je!).

In the thematic exhibition will be shown collections:

of money from turbolent times of our past (the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Second World War and the dissolution of Yugoslavia),
of old original postcards depicting the Titanic before and after its sinking,
of more than 200 board games,
of "Star Wars" coins,
of car brochures from the thirties to the eighties of the 20^thcentury,
of stamps of special forms (butterflyies, frogs etc),
of different forms of horoscopes,
of flourescent minerals,
of African and Asian primitive currencies ...