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Welcome to the Scandinavia Philatelic Society

Welcome to the SPS website.

We hope you like the look of the Society website. We regularly update various aspects and we are always open to suggestions and offers of content. The members’ area offers access to the full Contact magazine archive in PDF form, fully indexed and viewable right in your browser, and all articles are made available, search-able from the box on the right. All Society members are entitled to a login username and password, which will be sent to you by email, or by request by contacting: admin@scandps.org.uk.

The Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1952 as the Scandinavian Collectors Club, to promote the collection of Stamps, Postcards and Postal History of greater Scandinavia. That is Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Åland Islands and also the former Danish Colony of Danish West Indies and the Norwegian Territory of Spitsbergen.

We meet regularly in the United Kingdom and hold an AGM weekend, usually in the spring just before Easter. These are informal events, visitors are welcome and dates are published here on the website. Scandinavia Philatelic Society publishes an award winning quarterly magazine journal, “Scandinavian Contact”, with news, research and other articles for its members. New members are always welcome and initial enquiries should be made to the Society Secretary at: secretary@scandps.org.uk

Seventy years ago

The handful of of founder members sat round a table in the Library of the Swedish Church in Harcourt Street, Marylebone, London and from that day the society has grown into a Society of some 300 members, the majority of which are resident in the U.K. but the membership does extend overseas.

An advertisement appeared in 1952 in the pages of "Stamp Collecting Weekly" inviting applications for membership to those interested in Scandinavian philately and in the first four years 165 members were enrolled. Meetings have been held in the Swedish Church since the first days of the Society, and they were sometimes prefixed by a visit to the Harcourt Arms opposite and sometimes a post-meeting visit also took place. The occasional Christmas party was arranged, hosted by Eiler Hansen at the Danish Embassy and the now non-existent Danish Food Centre.

Spring Weekend 2023

Gwynne 11/21/2022 11/21/2022News

It’s all go! Information about the Spring weekend in Harrogate will be coming out in the December edition of CONTACT. However you can see details here on the website and even download a booking form. Join us: 24-26 March 2023.…

Officer Reports – AGM 2022

Gwynne 06/03/2022 06/03/2022News

Reports will be published here as they are made available Chairman’s report Peter Rooke Former Editor’s Report CONTACT has continued to be published up until December 2021 when I stood down as Editor. I would very much like to…...

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CONTACT Index – 1953 to 2020

Gwynne 06/12/2021 06/12/2021News

Just to let members know, I have just updated the index for CONTACT thanks to the dedicated work of Salo Heimann who completed this update quite sometime ago, it’s delay only being due to my procrastination. My apologies all round.…

2020 Programme & Calendar

Bob Evans 12/17/2019 09/23/2020Site Content - PUBLIC

Scandinavia Society Programme, 2020 Meetings 2020 Spring Weekend Application form 2020 Download: Word version PDF version March 27th – 29th SPRING WEEKEND All Members & Guests Friday September 18th ‘The Kings Head’ 13 Westmoreland St, Marylebone,…...

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Seventy years ago

Spring Weekend 2023

Officer Reports – AGM 2022

CONTACT Index – 1953 to 2020

2020 Programme & Calendar