Welcome collectors of British Hong Kong philatelic material! "Hong Kong" in Chinese means "Fragrant Harbor" and the British spelling calls attention to the period covered here, from the earliest HK stamps of the 1860s to 1997. Related and specialized areas, such as the British Treaty Ports in China, the Japanese Occupation of HK, and overseas or paquebot markings on HK stamps, are also of interest here. I hope we can use this group to discuss mutual collecting interests, postal history, catalog values and listings, fakes and forgeries alerts, and other points of interest related to this area.