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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.

DWI Use of US Stamps

Salo Heimann 03/01/1979 11/03/2015Articles - General, Denmark, Member Content

St. Thomas, to-day one of the islands in the United States Virgin Islands, was until 31st. March 1917 a part of the Danish West Indies. In the time before invention of the telegraph, the island, having a central position in…...

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Denmark Sunday Letters – Søndagsbreve

Salo Heimann 06/01/1978 11/03/2015Articles - General, Denmark, Member Content

For the period between 01.05.29 and 30.06.72 in Denmark it was possible for letters or postcards to be delivered on a Sunday, providing a special fee was paid, and certain other conditions applied. Whilst I do not know for certain,…...

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Finland UN Post in Cyprus

Salo Heimann 06/01/1978 11/03/2015Articles - General, Finland, Member Content

In November 1977, the last Finnish United Nations soldiers left Cyprus: the contribution of Finland to restore peace on that island came to an end, after 13 years of peacekeeping activities. Historical Review On March 4th 1964, the United Nations…...

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Faroes ‘From’ markings

Salo Heimann 09/01/1977 11/03/2015Articles - General, Faroes, Member Content

Illustrations: Various contributors As a result of the Faroe Islands Post Office becoming independent of the Danish Postal Administration, which it did on April 1st 1976 the ship letter marks in the Danish language have been replaced by new handstamps…...

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

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Seventy years ago

DWI Use of US Stamps

Denmark Sunday Letters – Søndagsbreve

Finland UN Post in Cyprus

Faroes ‘From’ markings