The year 2014 marked the 50th anniversary of the first year of operation of the Germany & Colonies Philatelic Society following the amalgamation of the Germany & Colonies Stamp Club (established 1947) and the Stockton German Study Group (1960).
The G&CPS celebrated its inaugural year in 1964 with the first Germania Posta philatelic exhibition held in Stockton.
Can anybody help? I have a cover sent from Aachen to Le Havre in 1856 and apart from the usual transmission cancels there is a red boxed cancel PR.1R. or IR? It looks like a Prussian cancel. Is it to do with Rayon or some form of PD cancel? Many thanks. Geoff Hern