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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 Crown Post

Peter Hellberg 09/01/2011 11/05/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Sweden

Sweden’s Crown Post (or State Courier Post) operated from earliest times, (sixteenth century, possibly earlier) and distributed the kings’ and parliaments’ decrees and notices by private courier, outside the jurisdiction of the public body, the General (Royal) Post Office, KGPS,…...

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Norway Bjørn Øya Facts and Forgeries

Rolf Scharning 09/01/2011 11/05/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Norway

These bogus stamps emerged some 20 years ago. I don’t know where they were produced, but it was by an enterprising individual, trying to dupe us collectors. To my knowledge, there are five basic values, see illustration below. However, there…...

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Library Åland

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

BOOKS ON ÅLAND IN THE LIBRARY The Librarian can be contacted by clicking on this link Book No Title Author Print/Date Language Weight Pages AD001 Ahvenanmaalla 1 – Posititoimpaikat ja Leimat. Aland Postanstalter och Ståmplar Helkiö EJ Lahti 1982 Finnish-…...

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Library Sweden

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

BOOKS ON SWEDEN IN THE LIBRARY The Librarian can be contacted by clicking on this link Book No Title Author Print/Date Language Weight Pages SN001 The Private Local Posts 1941-1947 (See SN7) Lister R New York 1955 English 500g 208pp…...

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Sweden Crown Post

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