CHARPEX 2018

July 28-29, 2018

10 am to 6 pm Saturday, 10 am to 4 pm Sunday

Worrell Building, Central Piedmont Community College
1201 Elizabeth Avenue,
Charlotte, NC
28235

​Free admission, free parking

Sponsored by the Charlotte Philatelic Society and the Fortnightly Stamp Club, CHARPEX features

• 20 Stamp Dealers
• 50-60 Frames of Competitive Exhibits
• Youth Activities and Boy Scout merit badge session
• Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Postal History Society
• Regional Meetings of ESPER, BNAPS, and the Carolina chapter of the German Philatelic Society
• USPS Booth selling new issues
• Silent auction featuring 300 lots
• Show Cancel and Commemorative Cover

Contact: Gene Zhiss, Charlotte Philatelic Society, P. O. Box 30101, Charlotte, NC, 28230-0101, Ph: 704-553-8110 or Email ejzhiss@carolina.rr.com

The Charlotte Philatelic Society maintains their own website for CHARPEX.  Visit the CHARPEX website for more information about this show.

CHARPEX features a host of national class dealers and philatelic exhibits.  The dealer list for 2018 is not final, and exhibition entries are not being accepted yet, but here are the lists of dealers and exhibits that were at the 2017 show.

Dealer Listing

Exhibit Listing

The following dealers attended CHARPEX 2017:
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• Jay Smith & Associates
• Fairwinds
• Longleaf Stamps
• A to Z Stamps
• Volovski's Rarities
• Earl Reeder
• Alfin's Philatelic Connection
• Carter's Stamps
• Collector’s Exchange
• Lyle's Postcards and Collectibles
• Collect ‘Em All
• Jeff Park Stamps
• Bob Sazama
• Hugh Clark
• Big Lick Stamps
• Carolina Coin & Stamp
• Web Stickney World Postal History
• The Classic Philatelist
• C & D Philatelics
• Laberge Postcards
• Postal History Center

CHARPEX attendees always enjoy an interesting and diverse set of philatelic exhibits.  The following exhibits were shown at CHARPEX 2017:

• Americans in Space: Project Mercury, Gemini and Apollo
• Tidal Power: Electricity from the Ocean
• 250th Anniversary of the Birth of Andrew Jackson
• Covers and Ephemera of S. C. Railroads, 1830-1916
• Various Aspects of African-American Philately
• The Trading Submarine "Deutschland"
• The Montreal Telegraph Company Cachets 1857-1883
• The Penguin: A Bird That Does Not Fly
• Belgium Postal Services During World War I
• Spanish American War Philatelic Potpourri
• North American Indians at War and Native Peoples North of Mexico
• Argentina's Claims to the South Atlantic Islands and Antarctic Peninsula
• Official Mail of the Irish Provisional Government and Irish Free State 1921-1937
• The Postal History of the German City of Poelitz
• The Joys of Collecting Germany
• Southern Antebellum Cameo Covers
• German and Austrian POWs in Japan 1914-1920

Photos from CHARPEX 2017

Photos from CHARPEX 2016

The CHARPEX 2016 Palmares is now listed on our Awards Listing Page.