Alma Lee

Hedwige Alma Lee FRPSL RDP (née Grunberg; 30 April 1914 – 2 July 2000) was a Swiss-born naturalised British philatelist who specialised in the stamps of Switzerland and in topical collecting.

She won large gold medals for her displays at Naba 1984, Stockholmia 1986, Hafnia 1987 and Finlandia 1988 and her collection was exhibited in the Court of Honour at PhilexFrance 1989 and New Zealand 1990.

Her collection of early Swiss material won large gold medals at Naba 1984, Stockholmia 1986, Hafnia 1987 and Finlandia 1988 and was shown in the Court of Honour at PhilexFrance 1989 and New Zealand 1990.

[1][4] She also became interested in the Zemstvo local stamps of Russia, and presented a paper on them in 1991 before the Royal Philatelic Society London based on the collection of her husband who had died in 1990.

[14] Her Swiss collection was sold at auction by Peter Rapp in eight instalments in 2001 after a representative selection had been extracted for the Royal Philatelic Society London's own purposes.

An 1850 Swiss Rayon stamp of the type that Lee attempted to plate (not from the Lee collection)
A 30c "standing Helvetia" stamp of Switzerland of the type in which Lee specialised (not from the Lee collection)
Auction catalogue for the sale of the Alma Lee Collection of Swiss stamps, May 2001.
A bound copy of Alma Lee's Switzerland collection at the library of the Royal Philatelic Society, London.