Stanley Gibbons Group Limited 02 August 2005 The Stanley Gibbons Group Limited ("Stanley Gibbons" or "the Company") Further issue and Director's dealings The Company announces that, following the exercise of an option over Ordinary Shares by Richard Purkis at 18.75p per share, it yesterday issued 100,000 new Ordinary Shares of 1p each. Richard Purkis yesterday sold 100,000 Ordinary Shares at 96.588p and now holds 50,000 Ordinary Shares representing 0.20 per cent. of the enlarged issued share capital of the Company. Application has been made for the new Ordinary Shares to be admitted to trading on AIM and admission is expected to take place on 8 August 2005. This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange