RNS Number:9663S
Stanley Gibbons Group Limited
23 April 2008


                       The Stanley Gibbons Group Limited
                                  ("the Company")

                       Placing and Directors Shareholdings

The Company announces that on 22 April 2008 Seymour Pierce placed, on behalf of
FORUM European Smallcaps GmbH, 4,790,000 ordinary shares in the Company, with
the majority of the shares being acquired by new institutional investors and
certain directors. The shares represent 19.1 per cent. of the current issued
share capital of the Company and were bought by the placees at 176p per share.
Amongst the purchasers of the shares are certain directors as follows:

Name                          No. of ordinary Total holding of  Percentage of
                              shares          ordinary shares   issued share
                              purchased                         capital

Michael Hall                  11,400          136,805           0.54
Richard Purkis                5,700           55,700            0.22
Mark Henley                   5,700           5,700             0.02
General Sir Michael Wilkes    5,700           5,700             0.02

                             Annual General Meeting

All the resolutions proposed at the Annual General Meeting of the Company held
in Jersey today were duly passed, including the Special Resolution authorising
the Company to purchase up to 15% of its issued share capital in the market for
cancellation.

For further information, contact:

The Stanley Gibbons Group Limited
Michael Hall, Chief Executive                          Tel: +44(0)20 7836 8444
www.stanleygibbons.com

Seymour Pierce Ltd, NOMAD/ Broker                      Tel: +44(0)20 7107 8000
Jonathan Wright

Bishopsgate Communications Ltd, Financial PR           Tel: +44(0)20  7562 3350
Jenni Herbert/Nick Farmer
stanleygibbons@bishopsgatecommunications.com




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