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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 Susan Oliver at: secretary@scandps.org.uk

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Iceland

Faroes

Norway

Denmark

Sweden

Åland

Finland

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.

87th Annual Congress of the Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies

Gwynne • 12th May 2016Site Content - PUBLIC

On 15th April 2016, at the 87th Annual Congress of the Association of Scottish Philatelic Societies in Perth, Dr David Kindley signed the Book of Scottish Philatelists. The invitation to sign the Book was in recognition of many years of…...

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PRESS RELEASE – RPSL

Gwynne • 4th May 2016Site Content - PUBLIC

Major Philatelic Library to be Available Online A major project between the RPSL and the British Library may well advance the knowledge of Scandinavian Philately with news released today about the launch of a unique digitiastion project. Read below: The…...

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Scandinavia Philatelic Society and the Faroe Islands Study Circle

Gwynne • 3rd May 2016Articles - General, Site Content

This is a reminder that the special joint meeting between the Scandinavia Philatelic Society (SPS) and the Faroe Islands Study Circle will be held on Saturday, 4 June 2016 at the Harnham Scout Hall, Lower Street, West Harnham, Salisbury, Wiltshire,…...

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Jack Gunn

Gwynne • 27th April 2016Obituaries, Site Content

Those members who knew Jack Gunn from Australia will be sad to hear that he died in February 2016 aged 94. Jack had several exhibition collections amongst which was his collection of Hurtigruten mail which, a couple of years ago…...

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The Stamps of Scandinavia are some of the most beautiful in the world

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