Scandinavia - Any Recommendations?

Can anyone suggest what might be a good choice from this area to collect? I have a halfway decent Iceland collection and would like to add on another country or so. Each of the remaining ones have their good and bad points. Finland is appealing but the early issues are priced way out of reach. Sweden has the issue with the different collecting methods, European album usually require booklet pairs. Any suggestions?

Maybe try Denmark. Then you can also add Greenland and Danish West Indies. I think there was a Danish owned enclave in what is now Ghana. Check out 1930s-1940s vintage Gold Coast stamps for pictures of Christiansborg (sp.) Castle. Might be some 19th century postal history opportunities from the Castle; note that I know nothing of its actual history.

How about the Faeroes or Greenland?

I really like the designs they both use for new issues and their older issues are reasonably priced.

Sweden has some attractive, engraved designs. The perf/imperf/pair stuff is only an issue if you collect to a printed album - may be better off with quadrille. Faroes and Aland look OK, but are an excuse to make money out of stamp collectors. Danish West Indies are usually pricey at auction.

Swedish Locals, especially Stockholm. Hugely attractive, lots of varieties and great fun searching. Not expensive for the most part...that must be a plus.

Greenland and Iceland are fun and relatively easy to complete, with the exception of a few early tricky sets (Liberation overprints for Greenland, millennium for Iceland). They aren't really Scandinavian countries though. Layer definitives of both are very attractive. I've never been impressed with Norway for some aesthetic reason. I don't collect Sweden and Finland. Åland and Faroe Islands are purely philatelic and a waste of money (though they are still very nice looking stamps).

If it grabs your bag, Slania has done a lot of work for Greenland so there's a thematic element there. I don't know if he did work for any other Nordic nations, buy I'm sure he did.

Oops, too many typos in there. Sorry. Londonbus makes a good point about locals. Norway has a big range of locals and I think Denmark has too.

For me, the easiest to collect is Denmark. Not complicated sets (like Norway's posthorns or lyons) and not too expenssive (except fo the very early issues), clàssic but attractive.
But the prize (imo) goes to Sweden, the same as with Denmark, but I find their stamps even more attractive. The booklet presentation with the perforation varieties further adds interest to Sweden's collector and finding the booklet pairs is not difficult mint (more tricky used!). Even booklet covers are nice. Swedish tamps are made to be used, not to get collector's money like Faroe's or Aland's.
Greeland is nice, but limited and somewhat on the line of the two above mentioned.

Finland and Norway are ok up to 1960, but rather boring afterwards. Norway's definitives are complicated to identify properly.

But, take into account that these are views from a European minded collector, with a very European taste.
Personally, I collect all Scandinavia (used)up to 1950, using an old album and Denmark and Sweden afterwards.

Catalog values and reality are somewhat different here; especially if buying straight from Finland based auctions. There are about 230 major number stamps for 1856-1940 era, only about two dozen will genuinely require more than $50 per stamp. Anything else can be had easily and pretty cheap if buying one or two estate collections/accumulations.

-k-

Sweden is also fun if you like SOTN cancels. That's going to be my next challenge, should I ever get organized enough: see how complete a Sweden collection I can form (by Scott, not specialized by Facit) where every stamp has a full socked on the nose cancel.

Well thanks to all responding thus far. I admit to be leaning toward Sweden and possibly Denmark.

Slania did more than 100 engravings for both Sveden & Denmark (+ some for Faroe Islands and a few for Iceland as well).

I would not consider Scott numbers 1 through 6 for Faroes as being "purely philatelic." If you try for them, you may want to get certificates of authenticity as all are overprinted stamps.