Germany & Colonies Philatelic Society
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.

Title: Post mark?
Posted By: Philip Townshend (ndjiapanda@hotmail.com)
Posted On: 23/04/2012 at 20:47:10
Message: The oblong cachets inscribed 'Posthilfstelle ... Taxe ...' have nothing to do with addresses being incomplete. They are rural-post marks applied in villages which had only very rudimentary postal service for receiving and dispatching mail without the facility to postmark stamps on mail. In Bayern and (much less commonly) Wuerttemberg they were the predecessors of the post-1928 rubber cachets inscribed '[village name] / [town name] Land', after 1933 '[village name] / ueber [town name]'. I assume that the cachet referred to here was inscribed 'Rudolf-Sophienstadt, Taxe Stuttgart'? Unfortunately I can find no reference to a place called Rudolf-Sophienstadt' either via Google or in the 1944 Reichspost directory.
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Post mark? Fred Cooper 23/11/2011 18:20:44
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