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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 the Society Secretary at: secretary@scandps.org.uk

Seventy 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.

Library Danish West Indies

Salo Heimann 06/15/2011 11/05/2015Library, Member Content

Books on Danish West-Indies in the Library Book No Title Author Print/Date Language Weight Pages DW001 Postal History of the United States Virgin Islands Birch J.A. Pennsylvania 1966 English 90g 40pp DW002 Danish West Indies Postal Stationary Egstrom V.E…...

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Library Denmark

Salo Heimann 06/15/2011 11/05/2015Library, Member Content

BOOKS ON DENMARK IN THE LIBRARY Book No Title Author Print/Date Language Weight Pages DK 116 Lastrup Stamp Club 30th Anniv Lastrup Stamp Club 30th Anniv Dansk Post-og telegraf museum Danish 140g 82pp DK001 AFA Danmark Frimærkekatalog 2010, 2006,…...

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Norway Parcel Post to 1945

Salo Heimann 04/28/2011 11/05/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Norway

The Scandinavia Philatelic Society is proud to present a new handbook by Olga Ellis & Alan Totten Continue reading...

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Sweden Artic Iron Ore railway

Peter Hellberg 03/01/2011 11/05/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Sweden

Part 1: 1896-1903 (acknowledging the format and part-content of Herr B. Reher, in German) The railway known to Swedes as the Malmbanen (iron ore line) was built from Luleå (port) to Gällivare (mining town) between the years (August) 1875, and…...

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Seventy years ago

Library Danish West Indies

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Norway Parcel Post to 1945

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