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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.

Sweden Mail with Danish Cancellations

Webmaster Group 12/01/1965 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Sweden

Under existing regulations, ship letters franked with the stamps of the Ship’s country can be posted at any foreign port. Furthermore the stamps are cancelled, with the postmark of the place where the mail is handed in, – usually with…...

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Sweden Railway Postmarkings

Webmaster Group 03/01/1965 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Sweden

Illustrations Peter Hellberg Railway Travelling Post Off ices in Sweden have existed since 1858 but postmarks for these were not introduced-until 1862. There are seven kinds of Railway T.P.O. postmarks to be found. 1.Postmarks with Place Names These postmarks show…...

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Sweden Alfred Nobel and The Bofors Company

Webmaster Group 12/01/1964 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Sweden

By Herbert Pritchard Originally Published December 1964 and March 1965 The industrialist Alfred Nobel is perhaps not so well-known to foreigners as is the donator of the Nobel prizes which are awarded annually on the anniversary of his death, December…...

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Scandinavia UN forces in Gaza

Salo Heimann 12/01/1964 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Scandinavia-General

Updated by H Tester June 1967 Illustrations courtesy Bjarne Heck Some observations on the Scandinavian mail from UNEF/EGYPT Danish Unit The Danish FPO located at Hill 88 outside Gaza town in the Gaza strip (part of the former Palestinian territory)…...

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Seventy years ago

Sweden Mail with Danish Cancellations

Sweden Railway Postmarkings

Sweden Alfred Nobel and The Bofors Company

Scandinavia UN forces in Gaza