ÿþ<!-- /i/xref/ --><!-- a unicode doc c.2008--> <HTML><HEAD> <title>S: Topical Index of Philatelic Organizations: S</title> <meta NAME="description" CONTENT="S: Topical Index of Philatelic Societies, Clubs, Study Groups, Federations and Associations."> <meta NAME="keywords" CONTENT="stamps, philatelic society, club, association, federation, study group, postage, topical"> <meta http-Equiv="Content-Type" Content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"> </HEAD> <body bgcolor="white" background="spiralbg.gif"> <blockquote> <a name="top">&nbsp;</a><br> <font face=arial> <center> <b><i><img src=a.gif height=15 width=15 border=0><img src=j.gif height=15 width=15 border=0>'s Encyclopedia of Stamps and Philatelic Links</i> <br> <br><a href=dxmnu-nf.htm#topic>Index:</a> Philatelic Organizations By Topic <font size=-1><br> <br> <a href=1soc-0.htm>List</a> : <a href=1soc-a.htm>A</a> <a href=1soc-b.htm>B</a> <a href=1soc-c.htm>C</a> <a href=1soc-d.htm>D</a> <a href=1soc-e.htm>E</a> <a href=1soc-f.htm>F</a> <a href=1soc-g.htm>G</a> <a href=1soc-h.htm>H</a> <a href=1soc-i.htm>I</a> <a href=1soc-j.htm>J</a> <a href=1soc-k.htm>K</a> <a href=1soc-l.htm>L</a> <a href=1soc-m.htm>M</a> <a href=1soc-n.htm>N</a> <a href=1soc-o.htm>O</a> <a href=1soc-p.htm>P</a> <a href=1soc-q.htm>Q</a> <a href=1soc-r.htm>R</a> S <a href=1soc-t.htm>T</a> <a href=1soc-u.htm>U</a> <a href=1soc-v.htm>V</a> <a href=1soc-w.htm>W</a> <a href=1soc-x-z.htm>X-Z</a> <p><table border width=50% cellpadding=5 align=center> <td align=center bgcolor=yellow><font size=-1 face=arial> <i>TOPICS: </i> <br><font size=-5> <a href=#ws>Samoa (ISO)</a>, <a href=#scan>Scandinavia</a>, <a href=#scouts>Scouts</a>, <a href=#za>South Africa</a>, <a href=#space>Space</a>, <a href=#es>Spain</a>, <a href=#sports>Sports</a>, <a href=#sh>St Helena</a>, <a href=#stat>Stationery</a>, <a href=#ch>Switzerland</a> </font></td></table> </font><center><br><font size=-1> <i>See Also:</i> <a href=2soc-s.htm>By Location</a> &nbsp; &nbsp; <a href=dxs.htm>By Name</a> </font> </center></b> <hr> <a href=#footer><img src=down.gif height=10 width=10 alt="Bottom"></a> <table width=88%> <tr><td width=33% valign=top><font face=arial size=-1><ol> <!--;first p--><dt><a name="ws">&nbsp;</a> </ol><li><b><a href=../collectr/2cntry-s.htm#ws>Samoa (ISO)</a></b><ol> <a name="foss">&nbsp;</a> <li><a href="../../stamps/url/aswafoss.htm" target=_new> Fellowship of Samoa Specialists</a> <a href=dxf.htm#fss><img src=x.gif height=5 width=5 border=0></a> <sup> <a href=dxa.htm#aps>APS</a></sup> <dd>Contact:</b> Don A. T. Mee, <a href=./as/nz-donanm-e.htm target=_new>@xtra</a> <dd>23 Leo Street, Christchurch 8051, New Zealand <p><dt><a name="scan">&nbsp;</a> </ol><li><b><!--a href=../collectr/2cntry-s.htm#scan-->Scandinavia</a></b> <dd>i.e. Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, <dd>Greenland, Færoe Islands, Åland and Spitzbergen<ol> <a name="fgnord">&nbsp;</a> <li><a href=2soc-germany.htm#fgns>DE</a>: FG Nordische Staaten e.V. <a name="sps">&nbsp;</a> <li><a href=0311-1.htm#SePS>UK</a>: Scandinavia Philatelic Society</a> (SPS) <a name=us-scan-lib> <li>US: <a href=./usa/club9.htm#us-scan-lib>CA</a> : Scandinavian Philatelic Library of Southern California - Ch 17 SCC <a name=scc13> <li>US: <a href=./usa/club15.htm#197>DE</a>: Scandinavian Collectors Club - Ch 13 <a name=scc4> <li>US: <a href=./usa/club6.htm#scc4>IL</a>: Scandinavian Collectors Club - Chap. 4 <a name=scc5> <li>US: <a href=./usa/club0.htm#021 target=_self>MA</a>: Scandinavian Collectors Club - New England - Chapter 5</A> <p><b><i>->See Also:</i></b> Clubs : (in) <a href=2soc-s.htm#scan target=_self>Scandinavia</a> <p><dt><a name="scouts">&nbsp;</a><!--topic title anchor from list above--> </ol><li><b><a href=../toptitle/top-s.htm#scouts>Scouts</a> (& Guides)</b> <ol> <a name=sossi> <li><a href=./u/sossi.htm target=_new> Scouts On Stamps Society International</a> <a href=dxs.htm#sossi target=_self><img src=x.gif height=5 width=5 border=0></a> <dd><b>Webmaster:</b> R. S. Frank, <a href=mailto:rfrank@sossi.org target=_new>@</a> <dd>P.O. Box 7638, Newport Beach, CA 92658, USA <dd><b>Primary Architect:</b> Keith Larson, <a href=mailto:klarson@sossi.org target=_new>@</a> <dd><font size=-5> At the 1997 Annual Meeting at Pacific 97 in San Francisco, President Lawrence Clay accepted an offer made by Chairman R. S. Frank to initiate a <acronym title="Scouts on Stamps Society International">SOSSI</acronym> Web Site.&nbsp; In late June, the internet domain name ... was reserved with Internic, the US domain name registrar.&nbsp; <acronym title="Scouts on Stamps Society International">SOSSI</acronym> acquired web site hosting services from a company called Slip Net.&nbsp; <br /><br /> Member Keith Larson learned of the web site project at the US Boy Scout National Jamboree <acronym title="Scouts on Stamps Society International">SOSSI</acronym> Meeting.&nbsp; Within weeks, he built a candidate site which provided much of the content and the initial look and feel of the pages.&nbsp; By October 1997 a <acronym title="Scouts on Stamps Society International">SOSSI</acronym> Web Site was up and running. &nbsp;Since then, on average each week over 1,500 viewers from around the world visit the SOSSI site. <p><dd>"If people collect topically, then this is the right place for beginning collectors." - Mike <a href=../collectr/2col-m.htm#mills target=_self>Mills</a> </font> <a name=ar-scouts> <p><li><a href=2soc-a.htm#grp>AR</a>: Grupo Temáticos Impressa <p><li><a href=2soc-argentina.htm#f-Scout>AR</a>: Filatelia Scout <a name=be-sfb> <p><li><a href=./eu/n/be-o-vla.htm#sfb>BE</a>: Scout Filatelisten Benelux, Gent <a name=mx-cfbpm> <p><li><a href=2soc-m.htm#01567 target=_self>MX</a>: Club Filatelico Baden-Powell de Mexico <a name=01811> <p><li><a href=0311-1.htm#1811>UK</a>: Scout and Girl Guide Stamp Club <a name=il-sossi> <p><li>US: <a href=./usa/club6.htm#il-sossi target=_self>IL</a>: SOSSI - Baden-Powell Chap. (#1) <p><b><i>->See Also:</i></b> <br><a href=http://www.filateliaefrancobolli.it/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8157 target=_new> Organizzare tematica scout - links</a>: (c.2006) <dd><a href=http://www.aisf.info/aisf/index.php target=_new> A.I.S.F. - Associazione Italiana di Scout Filatelia</a> <dd><a href=http://www.aisf.info/links/links.html target=_newl> aisf..links.html</a> <!--dd><a href=http://www.sossi.org/ target=_new> sossi</a--> <dd><a href=http://www.sgsc.org.uk/ target=_new> sgsc.uk</a> SGSC - Scout and Guide Stamps Club <dd><a href=http://www.arge-pfadfinder.org/ target=_new> arge.pfad</a> Arbeitsgemeinschaft Pfadfinder ; '404' c.2008 <!--dd><a href=http://www.geocities.com/cfbpm/ target=_new> cfbpm</a>, .mx--> <dd><a href=http://www.slettebo.no/spid.htm target=_new> spid</a>, .dk = Spejderfrimærkeklubben i Danmark <dd><a href=http://209.204.196.3/esp/scoutsyguias.htm target=_new> Club Filatélico de Scouts y Guías</a> '404' c.2008 <dd> &nbsp; C/ Rosa Luxemburgo, 47 - 1° l - 28023 Madrid, Spain <dd><a href=http://www.scoutsfilatelistenbenelux.be/ target=_new> scoutsfilatelistenbenelux</a> : SFB '404' c.2008 <p><dt><a name="za">&nbsp;</a><!--topic title anchor from list above--> </ol> <a name=za-nzsc> <li><b><a href=../collectr/2cntry-s.htm#za>South Africa</a></b><ol> <a name=uk-abwps> <!--p--><li>Anglo Boer War Philatelic Society, <a href=0311-1.htm#Anglo>UK</a> <a name=uk-bbs> <p><li>Bechuanalands and Botswana Society, <a href=0311-1.htm#uk-BBS>UK</a> <p><li>Cape and Natal Study Circle, <a href=0311-1.htm#n&zsc>UK</a> <dd>Formerly: Natal &amp; Zululand Study Circle <a name=OFSSC> <p><li>Orange Free State Study Circle, <a href=0311-1.htm#OFSSC>UK</a> <a name=uk-SACS> <p><li>South African Collectors' Society, <a href=0311-1.htm#SACS>UK</a> <a name=za-sa> <p><b><i>->See Also:</i></b> Clubs : (in) <a href=2soc-s.htm#za>South Africa</a> <a name=za-sassc> <dd>Especailly : <a href=2soc-s.htm#SoAfSSC>South African</a> Stamp Study Circle <p><dt><a name="space">&nbsp;</a><!--topic title anchor from list above--> </ol><li><b><a href=../toptitle/top-s.htm#space>Space</a></b><ol> <li>Missile Stamp Club, <a href=./usa/club3.htm#329>FL 32951</a>, USA <p><li><b>Rocket Mail</b> Society<dd> 15 Bushes Ave., Paisley PA2 6JR, Scotland, UK</li> <a name="sp-re">&nbsp;</a> <p><dd><b>Related:</b> <p><li>Boeing Employees Stamp Club, <a href=./usa/club96.htm#981>WA 98146</a>, USA <p><li>Hughes Stamp Club, <a href=./usa/club9.htm#900>CA 90049</a>, USA <a name=jscsc> <p><li>Johnson Space Center Stamp Club, <a href=./usa/club7.htm#jscsc>TX 77258</a>, USA <p><li>McDonnell Douglas Philatelic Club, <a href=./usa/club9.htm#926>CA 92663</a>, USA <p><li><b>Rocket</b> City Stamp Club, <a href=./usa/club8.htm#883>NM 88310</a>, USA <p><dd>See Also: '<a href=1soc-a.htm#astro>Astrophilately</a>' <p><dt><a name="es">&nbsp;</a><!--topic title anchor from list above--> </ol><li><b><a href=../collectr/2cntry-s.htm#es>Spain</a></b><ol> <!--p--><li><A HREF=./u/sss-un.htm target=_new> Spanish Study Circle - unofficial</A> <dd><i>cf:</i> Spanish Study Circle <dd>16 Fairford Ave., Luton, Beds. LU2 7ER, UK</li>; same? <p><li>Spanish Philatelic Society, <a href=./usa/club7.htm#750>TX 75093</a>, USA <p><b><i>->See Also:</i></b> Clubs : (in) <a href=2soc-s.htm#es>Spain</a> <p><dt><a name="sports">&nbsp;</a><!--topic title anchor from list above--> </ol><li><b><a href=../toptitle/top-s.htm#sports>Sports</a></b><ol> <p><center><B><I>O L Y M P I C S</I></B></CENTER> <P><dl><dd>"The Olympic Games owe a great deal to philately. It was stamps that saved the 1896 Games, thanks to a commemorative series. More and more countries started to produce stamps to commemorate the Games. Olympic stamps were the first to showcase sport. Thousands of collectors belong to one of the 31 sections of the International Olympic Philately Federation. Among all the series of stamps issued, some anachronisms do exist: for the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid, Austria launched a stamp with a ski jumping motif. Just one important detail: sticks were added to the skier!" </dl> <a name=fipo> <P><li><a href="2soc-w.htm#fipo">World</a>: Fédération Internationale de Philatélie Olympique (FIPO) <dd>(International Olympic Philately Federation ), Lausanne <a name=be-olympic-br> <li>BE: <a href=./eu/n/be-brab.htm#bopc>BR</a>: <a href=dxb.htm>B</a>elgian Olympic Philatelic Club (Brabant) <li>BE: <a href=./eu/n/be-o-vla.htm#bopc>OV:</a> Belgian Olympic Philatelic Club (Oost Vlaanderen) <a name=cz-olympics> <li><A HREF=2soc-c.htm#cz-olympics>CZ</A>: Olympsport Section / ArGe Olympsport <a name=de-olympics> <li><a href=2soc-germany.htm#de-olympics>DE</a>: Internationale Motivgruppe Olympiaden und Sport <a name=berlin-ospc> <li><a href=2soc-germany.htm#berlin-ospc>DE</a>: Olympia- und Sport- Philatelisten- Club Berlin <a name=fr-afcos> <li><a href=2soc-f.htm#fr-afcos>FR</a>: Association Française des Collectionneurs Olympiques et Sportifs (AFCOS) <a name=it-olympics> <li><a href=2soc-i.htm#it-olympics>IT</a>: Unione Italiana Collezionisti Olimpici e Sportivi (UICOS) <a name=uk-SOC> <li><a href=0311-1.htm#SOC>UK</a>: Society of Olympic Collectors <a name=us-spi> <li><a href=./usa/club6.htm#us-spi>US</a>: Sports Philatelists International <p><dt><a name="sh">&nbsp;</a><!--menu above--> </ol><li><b><a href=../collectr/2cntry-s.htm#sh>St Helena</a></b> (et al) <A NAME=00779>&nbsp;</a><ol> <li><!--A HREF="./u/sthelena.htm" target=_new--> St. Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha Philatelic Society</A>, <a href=./usa/club8.htm#779>CO 80916</a>, USA <a name="uk-asc">&nbsp;</a><!--none--> <p><li>Ascension Stamp Club, <a href=0311-1.htm#Ascension>UK</a> <p><dt><a name="stat">&nbsp;</a><!--menu above--> </ol><li><b><a href=../toptitle/top-s.htm#stationery>Stationery (Postal)</a></b> <A NAME=StatComm>&nbsp;</a><ol> <li><a href=./u/a/fip-psc.htm target=_new> FIP Postal Stationery Commission</a> <a href=dxpo.htm#fip-psc><img src=x.gif height=5 width=5 border=0></a> <sup><a href=2soc-w.htm#fip>FIP</a></sup><!--dxf.htm#fip-psc--> <dd>Stephen D. Schumann, Chairman (c.2008), <a href=./u/fip-stat-sdsch.htm target=_new>@earth</a> <dd>2417 Cabrillo Drive, Hayward, CA 49545, USA <dd>Tel.: 001 510 785 4794, Fax: 001 510 732 8526 <dd>Erik Hvidberg Hansen, Secretary (c.2008), <a href=./u/fip-stat-hvid.htm target=_new>@inet</a> <dd>Masten 50, DK 3070 Snekkersten, Denmark <dd>Ross A. Towle <a href=./e/fip-psc.htm target=_new>rosstowle@postalstat..</a>, USA (c.2001) <p><li><a href=2soc-a.htm#fiaf-stat>FIAF</a> Postal Stationery Commission <P><a name=au-stat> <p><li><a href=2soc-a.htm#01787>AU</A>: Postal Stationery Society of Australia <a name=06019>&nbsp;</a> <p><li>AU : <a href=2soc-a.htm#06019 target=_self>SA</A>: Postal Stationery &amp; <b>Postal History</b> Society of Australia Inc. <a name=be-sbep> <p><li><a href=2soc-b.htm#sbep>BE</a>: Société Belge de l'Entier Postal <dd>aka: Belgian Postal Stationery Society <a name=bnaps-pssg> <p><li><a href=2soc-c.htm#bnaps-pssg>CA</a>: Postal Stationery Study Group of BNAPS <p><li>CH: <a href="./types/stat-ch.htm" target=_new> Swiss Postal Stationery Collectors Club</a> (SGSV) <DD>POST TO CNTRY <a name=de-bgsv> <p><li><a href=2soc-germany.htm#de-bgsv>DE</A>: Berliner Ganzsachen-Sammler-Verein, Germany <dd>aka: 'Berlin Postal Stationery Society' <a name=fi-sefry> <p><li><a href=2soc-f.htm#fi-sefry>FI</A>: Suomen Ehiofilatelistit ry - Finlands Helsaksfilatelister rf <dd>aka: The Finnish Society for Postal Stationeries <a name=01788> <p><li><a href=0311-1.htm#01788>UK</a>: The Postal Stationery Society</a> <p><li><a href=./usa/club9.htm#923>US</a>: United Postal Stationery Society <p><dd>See also specific types - e.g. <a href=1soc-a.htm#aero>Aerograms</a> <p><dt><a name="ch">&nbsp;</a><!--menu above--> </ol><li><b><a href=../toptitle/top-s.htm#ch>Switzerland</a></b> <ol> <a name="ahelvs">&nbsp;</a> <li><a href=dxa.htm#ahelvs>A</a>merican Helvetia Philatelic Society, <a href=./usa/club9.htm#ahelvs>CA 90267</a>, USA <a name="ch-uk">&nbsp;</a><!--none--> <p><li><a href=dxh.htm#Helvetia>H</a>elvetia Philatelic Society Society of <a href=0311-1.htm#HPS-GB>GB</a> <p><dt><b><i>->See Also:</i></b> : Clubs : (in) <a href=2soc-s.htm#ch>Switzerland</a> </ol></td></tr></table> <a name="footer">&nbsp;</a><p><hr> <br><center><a href=#top><img src=top.gif height="" width="" border=0 alt=Top></a> <br><b><font size=-2> <a href="intro-t.htm#top" target=_self>Introduction</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<a href="submits.htm" target=_self>Add/Change</A> <br><br> <A HREF="../../stamps/links.htm" target="_top"><IMG SRC="../../stamps/home.gif" ALT="Home" BORDER=0 HEIGHT=12 WIDTH=25></A>&nbsp; <a href="../../stamps/copyrite.htm" target=_self>&copy; A.J. 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