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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.

General S.P.S. 25 Years -Looking Back

Salo Heimann 06/01/1977 11/03/2015Articles - General, Articles - other, Member Content

Originally Published June 1977 Herbert Pritchett When I started this Society under the name Scandinavian Collectors Group in October 1952, which was the date of our first meeting in London at the Swedish Church Hall, I did not dream that we…...

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Scandinavia Czeslaw Slania – Engraver Extraordinary

Salo Heimann 06/01/1977 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Scandinavia-General

Originally Published June 1977 Mrs. J. BurgessIllustration Bruno Nørdam A couple of years ago I came across a Swedish stamp which completely fascinated me. It was not one of the ‘classics’ or anything of that ilk – it was a…...

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Finland Courier Post 1854-56

Salo Heimann 06/01/1977 11/03/2015Articles - General, Finland, Member Content

ex Philatelia Feppica 4 1971 by Asko Kukkonen The anxiety caused in Helsinki by the Crimean War did not lead only to military defense activities. It was also considered important to introduce faster postal communications along the coastal route Turku…...

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Norway A Polish Army Camp 1945

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

Amplified and illustrated by Erik Lørdahl December 2013 A philatelic connection between Poland and Norway may seem unlikely, but the few covers described below may interest collectors of both countries as well as those who study military mails. The covers…...

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Seventy years ago

General S.P.S. 25 Years -Looking Back

Scandinavia Czeslaw Slania – Engraver Extraordinary

Finland Courier Post 1854-56

Norway A Polish Army Camp 1945