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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.

Scandinavia The Swans From The North – A Poem

Salo Heimann 09/01/1960 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Scandinavia-General

By Hans Hartvig Seedorf-Pedersen ‘T was five wild swans in silver plumage dressed That toward the coastline of the north were streaming, A streak of dawn light coloured every breast Ere-yet the red flush of the dawn was gleaming…...

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Scandinavia Early Balloon Posts

Salo Heimann 03/01/1960 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Scandinavia-General

Reprinted from “PHILATELY’ -August, 1951) (With special reference to the “Daily Graphic” flight, London-Mellerud, 1907) Very few airmail collectors are aware that airpost connections existed between England and Dalsland in Sweden in the year 1907, and even fewer are alive…...

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Finland Traveling post offices and their cancellations

Salo Heimann 12/01/1959 11/03/2015Articles - General, Finland, Member Content

The Finnish Travelling Post Office service is divided into two main categories, 1st Class Post (Postivaunut -Pv) and 2nd Class T.P.O’s (Postiljoonivaunut Pjv). In addition there is a third service which could fall under this category, but which is operated…...

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Scandinavia Morokulien

Salo Heimann 12/01/1959 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Scandinavia-General

Morokulien is composed of the Norwegian “Moro” and the Swedish “kul” both colloquial words for the English “Fun”. A small piece of ground has been-provided on both sides of the border of Norway and Sweden to establish a “Free State”…...

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Seventy years ago

Scandinavia The Swans From The North – A Poem

Scandinavia Early Balloon Posts

Finland Traveling post offices and their cancellations

Scandinavia Morokulien