Hong Kong Study Circle: Papers by members

Last Updated:8 March 2010

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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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
	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: March 2008	View pdf file [3,625 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