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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.

Faroes The Provisionals

Susan Oliver 03/01/1954 11/03/2015Articles - General, Faroes, Member Content

by R. King-Farlow Illustrations Susan Oliver Questioned suddenly, the only thing that the average Englishman could say about the Faroe Islands is that, to judge from the weather reports, they share with Iceland the distinction of being the point of…...

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Denmark Collection Office cancellations

Salo Heimann 12/01/1953 11/03/2015Articles - General, Denmark, Member Content

The most popular and. sought-after of all Danish postmarks are undoubtedly the Numeral cancellations which were in general use at all the major postal offices from the latter part of 1852, until the Spring of 1884. Running a good second,…...

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Sweden Postage dues

Webmaster Group 12/01/1953 11/03/2015Articles - General, Member Content, Sweden

(Translated from “Handbok Over Sveriges Frankotecken”) by L E. Halldene Originally Published December 1953 The Postage Due stamps of Sweden were brought into use at the same time as the Official Stamps on 1st January 1874, as announced in the…...

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Finland Local stamps – a brief outline

Salo Heimann 12/01/1953 11/03/2015Articles - General, Finland, Member Content

Originally Published December 1953 Finland provides a source for very interesting study of Local Stamps about which comparatively little is know. Some of these 1oc2.1s were closely associated with the activities of Steamship Companies which, at the time of these…...

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

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Seventy years ago

Faroes The Provisionals

Denmark Collection Office cancellations

Sweden Postage dues

Finland Local stamps – a brief outline