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–> December ’25 Member Meeting (Fly Specking) is here
–> Q3 2025 CH Stamps are here!!!!
–> 2025 WestPex and BERNABA exhibits (#9, #19-23) here
–> 3 new stamp-related articles added to the Research library here
The American Helvetia Philatelic Society (AHPS) is the largest group of collectors of Swiss stamps outside Switzerland. The current organization dates from 1975 but traces its lineage to 1938, when six Swiss and three Americans founded the original Society for Collectors of Switzerland in Philadelphia.
Today the AHPS offers a full range of services to some 200+ collectors and researchers located primarily in the United States, but also in Canada, Great Britain and Switzerland. Interests range from new issues, rarer stamps, errors, cancels, postal history research, and international exhibitions.
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Our guide to Disposing of a Collection can be found here.
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