Stamps of Hong Kong (China): Panda Issue (July 1st 2008)
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008: Animals on Stamps, Asia, China, Hong Kong, Pandas on Stamps, Stamp Profiles, Topicals or ThematicsHong Kong recently issued a set of stamps featuring a pair of Giant Panda cubs. The promotional material reads: "Le Le and Ying Ying, a pair of giant panda cubs, arrived in Hong Kong in 2007 as a gift from ...
Postal Beginnings in China: Early Rates & Arrangements (1911)
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008: Asia, China, Hong Kong, Postal RatesWilliam Cochrane. There is an extraordinary interest in all things philatelic, related to China. In this account taken from The Postage Stamp (Feb 1911), we have valuable information regarding the early postal rates and arrangements from 1834 onwards. Postal historians of ...
Direction Markings: Re-Direction Markings Reconsidered
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008: Asia, China, Hong Kong, SingaporeCharles A. Jones. First published in the Journal of the Hong Kong Study Circle, April 2007 No. 341 Introduction Names of ports, such as Hong Kong, Bangkok, and Singapore, are occasionally found as unframed, straight-line markings on loose stamps, post cards, and ...
Hong Kong Study Circle
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008: Asia, China, Clubs & Societies, Hong Kong, LinksThe Hong Kong Study Circle was founded in 1951 to record and circulate information on the philatelic and postal history of Hong Kong and the Treaty ports. It is U. K.-based and regular meetings are held in London. Provincial meetings ...
The Postal History of Hong Kong
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008: Asia, Book Reviews, China, Hong Kong, Postal HistoryBill Lloyd-Smith. The Postal History of Hong Kong by Edward B. Proud is one of the latest on the Proud-Bailey series of books on the postal history of the British Colonies. It is a mammoth volume with well over 1,100 pages ...