Hong Kong Study Circle: Papers by members

Last Updated: 5 Jan 2012

Member Papers

The aim of the Hong Kong Study Circle is to record and circulate information on the philatelic and postal history of Hong Kong and the Treaty Ports. Our main tool remains the Journal which we publish quarterly and distribute to our members. The Internet now affords us a means of circulating information to a wider audience. We will occasionally publish, on our website, papers that we think are of interest to a broad range of postal historians and others. The aim being to encourage contributions of information from beyond our membership and to make more people aware of the interests of our members.

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P011 Hong Kong Airmails – 1924-1952 by Nick Halewood 21 November 2010
In September 1911 the first official British air mail service operated between Hendon, London, and Windsor. It was, technically, the first time air mail for Hong Kong had been accepted, so this postcard was among the first mail to arrive in Hong Kong that at some stage had been carried by an official air mail service .	This exhibit traces the development of the airmail routes and rates out of Hong Kong; covering the first mail accepted in Hong Kong for air transmission at some stage in 1924, the despatches for the Karachi United Kingdom and Shanghai-Manchouli routes in 1929 and 1931, respectively, the first regular despatches for the Saigon-Marseilles route in 1932, through the disruption caused by World War 11, to the introduction of four zones in 1952. Experimental, private and incoming flights that contributed to the expansion of airmail routes from Hong Kong and mail from Hong Kong-related crashes are also represented. Much of the detailed information is the result of ongoing personal research by the exhibitor.
UNDER DEVELOPMENT Please refer back often. 14 June 2011	Frame 1, Frame 2, Frame 3, Frame 4, Frame 5, Frame 6, Frame 7, Frame 8

P010 NEW BOOK: French Mail Paquebot Far East Itineraries 1862 – 1880 (FEMSI Volume 2) © by Lee Scamp
This book is Volume 2 of Far East Mail Ship Itineraries (FEMSI), Vol. 1 of which concerned primarily the P&O.	FEMSI Volume 2 provides tabular itineraries of the French mail ship lines to, from, and within the Far East, 1862 – 1880. Comprehensive Oriental French paquebot itineraries between Hong Kong, Shanghai and Yokohama are detailed, and augmented by eastward and westward dates at Marseille for these voyages (many of the Marseille dates from Salles’ Tome II). Some more limited information is included concerning the rest of the French line port calls between France and the Orient: Messina / Naples, Alexandria / Port Said, Suez, Aden, Galle / Colombo, Singapore, and Saigon. Mr. Scamp's email address:
Uploaded 22 Dec. 2010	Description pdf file [103 KB] Order Form pdf file [95 KB]

P009 French Messageries Imperiales / Maritimes Mail Paquebot Itineraries to, from, and within the Far East 1862 – 1880 Far East Mail Ship Itineraries, Volume 2 © by Lee C. Scamp
	Click on the links below to view presentations Mr. Scamp gave on his newest book. Both files are filled with many interesting examples. Mr. Scamp's email address:
This submission was published on this website: May 2010 The book is to be published later in 2010.	View Presentation 1 pdf file [1363 KB] View Presentation 2 pdf file [2121 KB] Order Form pdf file [93 KB]

P008 Subject Matter Index for Journal 335-346 (inclusive) by Timothy Webb
This index commences with Journal No.335 (October 2005). A degree of cross-referencing has been included where the subject matter has lent itself to it.
published: April 2010	View pdf file [103 KB] View as a web page

P007 Author Index, Bulletin/Journal Nos. 1-351 by Timothy Webb
Timothy Webb compiled the bulk, Journal Nos. 1-347, of this list; Nick J. Halewood added entries for Journal Nos. 348-351.
published: March 2010	View pdf file [153 KB] View as a web page

P006 Caveat Emptor - A New Breed of Fakers at Work! by Michel Houde
	With the widespread use of scanners, computer printers, philatelic reference works etc. fakers have discovered how easily these are to produce.
published: March 2009	View pdf file [169 KB]

P005 Hong Kong Postal Stationery Finds and Updates by Lee C. Scamp
	"After I completed the original HKPS [Hong Kong Philatelic Society] registration envelope article, I thought I should expand it beyond the constraints of that topic to encompass new finds and to include updates to the earliest and latest dates that Col. Webb and others have recorded for the rest of the various types of Hong Kong postal stationery."
published: January 2009	View pdf file [4,467 KB]

P004 French Ship Mail by Harmon Fine
	A presentation given by Harmon Fine illustrating this subject using covers and stamps.
published: January 2009	View pdf file [558 KB]

P003 French Far East Mail Ship Itineraries by Lee C. Scamp
	A presentation given by Lee Scamp in Washington, DC during the 2006 International Stamp Show.
published: January 2009	View pdf file [3,246 KB]

P002 Hong Kong Officially Sealed Labels Catalog by Philippe Orsetti
	March 15, 2008 Revised and augmented as of July 21, 2010 Officially Sealed Labels are used to secure letters and packages received in damaged condition or damaged at the Post Office. In Hong Kong, during the First World War, they were also used to reseal letters that were opened by censors, before the introduction of a specific resealing strip in the early part of 1915.
published: July 2010	View pdf file [4,678 KB]

P001 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, Straits Settlements, and one example so far from North Borneo.
published: April 2007	View HTML