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 Society has over 350 local and overseas members.
Formed to promote philatelic activities in Hong Kong, the 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 10 issue. The Society meets every month on a Thursday and holds postal auctions regularly. Ever since the 1970s, monthly meetings of the Society were held at the Club Lusitano in Central and from 1998 onwards, the 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.
The Society was one of the founder member of the Federation of Inter-Asian Philately and a member of the Federation Internationale Philatelie (F.I.P.) since the 80s.
Over the years, the Society has promoted philately vigorously in Hong Kong and 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 addition, the Hong Kong Philatelic Society also organised annual national exhibitions so that new exhibits formed by local collectors can qualify for future FIAP & FIP exhibitions. The Christopher D’Almada trophy is to be awarded as the grand prize for the Hong Kong Stampex exhibitions. Furthermore, member countries in FIAP are invited to compete at our Hong Kong Stampex exhibitions.
In December 2002, our 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 HKPS also participates in joint/invitation stamp exhibitions such as in China and Macau regularly. In January 2004, the Society co-organised the Hong Kong 2004 Stamp Expo - 17th Asian International Philatelic Exhibition which was a big success.
Today, the Society is actively involved in raising local standard of exhibiting among adult and youth alike and members have achieved several Large Gold and Gold medals as well as Grand Prix Awards at international stamp exhibitions.
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