****** News ******
–> See the newest Swiss stamps and the AHPS PIPEX exhibit
–> WESTPEX 2025 April 25- 27, 2025 will host the AHPS annual meeting.
–> BERNABA 2025 May 14-17, 2025. THE big Swiss stamp show that runs every few years.
**** Membership meeting videos
September 9, 2023 – here – Durham issues identification and plating. Intense!
August 5, 2023 – here – Dick Hall’s latest book; 1900 UPU issue; and more
July 8, 2023 – here – Latest auction, Tell!, and Show n Tell
June 3, 2023 – here – IBRA 2023, Upcoming Events, and Show n Tell
May 5, 2023 – here – Debrief on PIPEX and Swiss Crypto Stamps
April 1, 2023 – here – Collection samples, Swiss News, and AHPS events.
March 4, 2023 – here – Collection samples and their storage. Great dialog.
February 4, 2023 – here – Pipex planning PLUS an interesting stamp
December 3, 2022 – here – Website review PLUS show and tell!
September 9, 2022 – here – show and tell –> interesting discovery
July 9, 2022 – here – show and tell and general discussion
June 4, 2022 – here – HELVETIA 2022 and member items galore.
May 7, 2022 – here – presentation on family and stamp history
April 2, 2022 – here – discussion of various member items
March 5, 2022 – here – focus on St. Louis Stamp Expo exhibits
January 8 – here Swiss stamp catalogs – by Rudy Caduff
December 4 – here Swiss stamp expertizing
November 11 – here George Struble’s “Airmail to the US” rate study
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 325 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.
Our introductory Swiss stamp album can be found here.
Our Guide to Swiss Stamps can be found here.
Our guide to Disposing of a Collection can be found here.
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Zurich 4
1 March 1843
Zurich 6
1 March 1843
Geneva
1 October 1843
Basel Dove
1 July 1845
Canton Geneva
22 October 1849
Canton Geneva
22 January 1850
Winterthur
25 February 1850
Neuenburg
9 August 1851