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 picked up this card some weeks ago and I wonder if anybody can tell me what it is. It is MiP62 with "Specimen" overprint. Is this a genuine overprint in that it was produced by the German authorities and if not who might have produced it and why? Is the overprint contemporary to the card? If it is genuine why would the German authorities have used the English word?
