SOCIETY NEWS
After a year of Zoom meetings it was good to get some normality back into our hobby and the recent President’s Night at Dundee and District Philatelic Society was the first face-to-face meeting this year. President Harry Jackson provided everyone with a fascinating display of ‘Germany from States to the Weimar Republic’.
Harry began the display by showing stamps from mainland Germany which were issued by postal authorities. At that time there was no overarching authority and each state operated independently. Issues started slowly with Bavaria being first and by the 1860s all the states had pulled together after the Franco-Prussian War and
