Welcome to the Scandinavia Philatelic Society
Welcome to the (now, not so) brand new official website of the Scandinavia Philatelic Society of Great Britain. 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. These are informal events, visitors are welcome and dates are published here on the website. Scandinavia Philatelic Society publishes a 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 Susan Oliver at: secretary@scandps.org.uk
Sixty 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. ABPS News briefing
ABPS EXECUTIVE BULLETIN JUNE 2017 Please circulate to any philatelic friends to show just how much the ABPS is doing to promote philately across the UK. Thank you. CONGRESS MEDAL FOR JOHN BARON John Baron, who has led the ABPS…...
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February Meeting at SPINKS
Dear all, Just to remind you of our London meeting to be held at: Spinks, 69 Southampton Row, London, WC1B 4ET on: Saturday 25 February 2017 starting at 1.30 pm. I hope to see as many of you there as…
CONTACT – September 2016
Dear Members The latest electronic edition of CONTACT has been distributed by email to on the 9th of September. It will soon be available for download from the members area of the website. If you are an electronic membership subscriber…
A Message from the Chairman
As yet no member has been appointed as either Membership Secretary or General Secretary, which to me is rather disappointing for a society of 200+ members. Therefore it is necessary to inform all members that the renewals exercise will go…...
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