Welcome to the Scandinavia Philatelic Society
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
Sixty years ago
Sweden Åland Postal rates
A table of postage rates. It is the basis of charges for the postal services provided by the Swedish state under the provisions of Royal Decrees dated 13 October 1785 and 14 August 1800 from Swedish post offices in Sweden…...
Sweden Currency Control WWII
(with translation/amplification by Peter Hellberg, as consented) Further to Swedish Notes in last issue of Contact on pp. 98-9, I send you some examples of currency control covers, and recommend that you extract relevant parts of the Ingemar Wågerman reference…...
General Beware! They are watching you!
By Gwynne Harries This is a cautionary personal tale, whichpotentially has very serious implications.Whilst it is unlikely to affect SPS members directly, it is real evidence that some of the recent high profile news reports of individuals seeking asylum, may…...
Denmark Cheapest FDC ever?
Scandinavian postal administrations happily service unaddressed FDC for the cost of the newly-issued stamps to be affixed to them, and parcel them up in bulk for dealers to retail them, and put fancy cancels on the stamps. Normally that is…...