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 Susan Oliver at: secretary@scandps.org.uk

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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.

Meeting at Spinks – February 2018

Gwynne • 5th March 2018Minutes of Meetings, News, Site Content, Site Content - PUBLIC

At the London Meeting on February 24th held at Spinks there were 8 members and one guest attending. It really is a shame that no more members came along and with only 8 members it becomes rather a costly meeting. …...

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Ernie Burkin

Gwynne • 9th November 2017Obituaries, Site Content

ERNEST GEORGE BURKIN – 7th November 1920 – 29th September 2017 Ernie joined the SPS in 1957 and was a regular attendee at the meetings which were then held in the Library of the Swedish Church in Marylebone. His main…...

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ABPS News briefing

Gwynne • 23rd July 2017General information, News, Site Content, Site Content - PUBLIC

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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CONTACT – September 2016

Gwynne • 10th September 2016Site Content - PUBLIC

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…

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