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ABOUT THE HONG KONG PHILATELIC SOCIETY

Established in 1921, the Hong Kong Philatelic Society is the oldest philatelic organisation in Hong Kong. Members were mainly Europeans before the war and after 1946, more and more Chinese became members and the Society has grown in stature. Currently, the Philatelic Society has over 350 local and overseas members.

Formed to promote philatelic activities in Hong Kong, the Philatelic Society once contributed a column in the South China Morning Post in the 1930s reporting on both local and foreign philatelic activities and developments. In the 1960s, it began holding open competitive exhibitions locally and published a monthly newsletter. The first annual journal of the Hong Kong Philatelic Society was inaugurated in 1997 and it is now into the 12^th issue. We meet every month on Thursday evening and holds postal auctions regularly. Ever since the 1970s, monthly meetings of the Philatelic Society were held at the Club Lusitano in Central and from 1998 onwards, the Philatelic Society has a new club house and library at 186 Hennessy Road, Wanchai. The www.hkpsoc.com website was innaugurated in August 2000 providing a quicker means of philatelic information exchange between members. Because of proliferation of philatelic forgeries worldwide, we have formed a watchdog group made up of knowledgeable members in order to monitor and to advise members and the stamp trade regarding fakes and forgeries in the market.

The Hong Kong Philatelic Society is one of the founder member of the Federation of Inter-Asian Philately (founded on 14 September 1974) and a member of the Federation Internationale Philatelie (F.I.P.).

Locally, our Philatelic Society is active in promoting stamp collecting as a hobby as well as raising local standard of exhibiting by supporting Hongkong Post organised Inter-School Stamp Exhibits Competition.

In December 2002, our Philatelic Society together with the Hong Kong Study Circle (U.K.) organised the 140th Anniversary of Hong Kong Stamps Exhibition at the City Hall. In 2007, we organised a 10th anniversary of the HKSAR stamp exhibition in February. The Philatelic Society also participates in joint/invitation stamp exhibitions such as in China and Macau regularly.

We organise annual national exhibitions to qualify new exhibits formed by local collectors for future FIAP & FIP exhibitions. The Christopher D'Almada trophy, in memory of our former President, is the Grand Prize for the Hong Kong Stampex exhibitions. Member countries in FIAP are often invited to compete at our Hong Kong Stampex exhibitions.

We organised the first national stamp exhibition in 1994, the first international stamp exhibition in February 1997 and the 15th FIAP Asian International in February 2001. In January 2004, the Society co-organised the Hong Kong 2004 Stamp Expo - 17th Asian International Philatelic Exhibition which was a big success. We are proud to announce that our Philatelic Society will be organising the next international philatelic event in Hong Kong - The Hong Kong 2009 Stamp Expo - 23rd Asian International Philatelic Exhibition under the patronage of FIAP and sponsorship of Hongkong Post. This is to be held from 14 - 17 May 2009 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Wanchai.