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Philatelic Societies for Collectors of Hong Kong Stamps & Postal History Hong Kong Philatelic Society Hong Kong Study Circle Hong Kong Study Marking Group The main objective of this group is the exchange of stamps and information relating to Hong Kong Security Markings and Perfin stamps. To develop increased knowledge of the different markings and identify those still on the unknown list. To list, where possible with illustrations the known items so as to assist all collectors of this field. New Issues of Hong Kong Stamps Hong Kong Post Stramp Selected pages for the Hong Kong Philatelist The Philately of the Hong Kong Treaty Ports by Robert Wilson Hong Kong stamps were used on letters mailed at British post offices in a number of Chinese ports (and a couple of Japanese also) in the 19th. and 20th Centuries. The Treaty Port Offices first issued their own cancellors, barred oval 'killers', in 1866. Prior to this all of their outgoing mail had been cancelled 'B62' in Hong Kong. WWII - Last Mail out of Hong Kong to Australia By John Tang Hong Kong Officially Sealed Labels Catalog by Philippe Orsetti Officially Sealed Labels, an official postal document, are used to secure letters and packages received in damaged condition or damaged at the Post Office. PLATE PROOFS? By William Kwan Are these Plate Proofs, as some well known catalogues claim, or are they something else? Bogus Hong Kong Post Office 1841 letter An entire-letter bearing an example of the "Hong Kong Post Office 1841" Yang's type 3 suddenly appeared on an Internet auction One Dollar on 10 Cents purple/red Forgery By Raymond W. Carlin Direction Markings: Re-Direction Markings Reconsidered by Charles A. Jones Names of ports, such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Singapore, are occasionally found as unframed, straight-line markings on loose stamps, post cards, and covers of Hong Kong.  Hong Kong - Prisoner of War Camp Mail 1942-1945 by Jan Kosniowski - Stamp Domain letters sent to Sub Lieut Roger Lamble HKRNVR, while he was a Prisoner of War in North Camp Hong Kong Books on Hong Kong Philately HONG KONG, THE POSTAL HISTORY OF THE PRE-ADHESIVE The Gold Medal collection of Peter Shek, with an introductory essay by Ming Tsang, 192 pp, The postal history of Hong Kong arranged by area in chronological order. Postal History of Hong Kong by Edward B. Proud, Vol 1, 1841 - 1958, 1989 (with 1994 supplement). HONG KONG POSTAL STATIONERY by James Simon Company, 1997, 3rd edition, 99 pp. Retail prices with catalogue number and description. Formula cards, postal cards, envelopes, aerogrammes, regular envelopes, includes specimens and specialized material. Postage Due and The Handling of Underpaid Mail of Hong Kong Sammy Chiu and K Tsui, Sunburst Stamps, Limited edition of 250 copies, 1996, 140 pp. HONG KONG REGISTRATION LABELS by Ming W. Tsang, 180 pp. On-cover reference prices. Hong Kong registered mail, post office seals and labels, Cinderella material, post offices, postal history, covers, military mail, exhibitions, catalogs, price lists. HONG KONG TREATY PORTS by Ming W. Tsang, 1995, 129 pp, this work is based on Ming Tsang's collection exhibited at the Philadelphia National Philatelic Exhibition in October 1995 at which it was awarded a Vermeil Medal; Hong Kong Postal History; 19th and 20th Century China, Japan Treaty Ports; Postal markings; Maritime Mail Shipping Companies and Packet Service covers; Transoceanic Mail; International Mail Postal Rates; Great Britain Offices in China, Wei-Hai-Wei; Offices Abroad; Postal Agencies; Consular Mail; Registered Mail; Postal Stationery Cards. Postal Rate History of China and Hong Kong The Pre-Adhesive Period to the Beginning of Packet Service from Hong Kong, 1800-1845 by Lee C. Scamp,1986. POWs of East Asia: Vol 4 Hong Kong and China. Captives in Cathay by David Tett, 458pp . A Postal History of the Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees In East Asia During The Second World War. HONG KONG SCOTT-YANG/YANG-SCOTT CATALOG CORRELATION by Ralph Weil with Michael Rogers, 2006, second edition. YANG'S POSTAGE STAMP & POSTAL HISTORY CATALOGUE OF HONG KONG by N.C. Yang (21st ed. 2004), Yang's Stamp Service, Hong Kong; 165 pp, includes Postal Markings, Pre-Adhesive Issue, QV-QEII Definitives & commemoratives, S/Ss, Booklets, BOB, BPO in China, Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong, Postal Stationery Issues, Paquebot Marks, Treaty Port Postmarks, Hong Kong First Flight Covers (1932-39). Hong Kong Forgeries by Ming Tsang, published in 1994, 143 pp, with illustrations, rarity information and bibliography. The author identifies forgeries and counterfeits stamps and covers including overprints, surcharges and postal markings. He includes Treaty Port markings. |
