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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Faroes

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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.

CONTACT Index – 1953 to 2020

Gwynne • 12th June 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 • 17th December 2019Site 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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Officers Reports – AGM 2019

Gwynne • 14th April 2019Minutes of Meetings

Chairman’s report Before anything else, I must personally thank all the officers and post-holders of the society for their continued efforts in the furtherance of the Scandinavia Philatelic Society. Without their commitment and dedication, the membership would have received a…...

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Scandinavia Philatelic Society and the Faroe Islands Study Circle

Gwynne • 3rd May 2016Articles - General, Member 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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