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.
I bought this crude copy of a Bavarian 1849 1 Kr 'Schwarzer Einser' at a fair some years ago. It is printed onto gummed paper and I have always wondered whether it was a forgery designed to full the Bavarian post office (it is much cruder than the forgeries I've seen on the internet) or whether it is a Victorian facsimile for stamp collectors. I have read in the past that some stamp dealers in the last third of the 19th century produced facsimile copies of early Classics so that collectors could fill gaps in their collections. Seems that this was a totally acceptable part of collecting with the early philatelists. There seems to be some words in script just underneath the central figure but I cannot make out what it may say. Has any fellow collector here seen anything similar? Personally I don't think it was printed as a forgery. Another idea I have is that it may be from a children's toy post office set.
