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The Post Offices of French West Africa (W G Mitchell & L H Lambert)
Pages From My Collection:  (9) The Beginning of the Conquest of Morocco - Part II (R C Deakin)   
Charging British Postage by Distance after 1840 (G F Oxley)
The Ligne de Saigon à Bangkok (J H Garner) 
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 50 (E M Cohn) 
Result of Ernst Cohn's Quiz  
Shorter Items:
 •  Sowers used as Tax Stamps (T F C Waterman) 
 •  The Missing Centenarian (M Meadowcroft)   
 •  WWI German Field Post Office in France (E E Fricks)      
 •  Syria and Lebanon Items (I McQueen)     
 •  French Military Censor Marks on WWI Cover from Bulgaria (M J Whittaker)
 •  11 x 11 Perforated Sowers (R L Gaillaguet)
 •  The "PAQ.ANGL.B.M / BORDEAUX" Handstamp of 1874 (P R A Kelly
 •  The French Union (C W Spong)

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The 50c Jeanne d'Arc Stamp (M L Bister) 
French Internment Camps (continued): Chapter 14 - Saint-Sulpice-la-Pointe (Tarn) (D J Richardson)  
Air France Handstamps from South America (I McQueen)  
Pages From My Collection
   (10) German Stamps on Togo Mail for Europe (E J Mayne)
   (11) The Beginning of the Conquest of Morocco - Part III (R C Deakin)
Colonies Booklets - Madagascar (C W Spong)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 52 (E M Cohn)  
Postal Humour (R I Johnson)  
Shorter Items 
  •  Saigon to Calcutta by Emergency Airmail Service (D Taylor Smith)  
  •  Togo Cinderellas (E J Mayne)  
  •  Sowers used as Tax Stamps [erratum} (M S Tyler)  
  •  Martinique and Anjouan Overprints on Postage Dues (E J Mayne)  
  •  The Missing Centenarian (M S Tyler)   
  •  Empire Chérifien (P A Baker, M S Tyler)    •   Censor Marks on WWI Togo and Bulgarian Mail (E J Mayne)  
  •  French Colonies - Stamps on Cover, Varieties, and Forged Surcharges (C Hudelmaier)  
  •  An Odd Thai Cover (J H Garner)
  •  Avis de Réception Cachets from Former French Colonies (G T J Pullan)
  •  Belgian (?) Cachet of 1905 on Paris Exhibition Label of 1900 (M Mobbs, A Swain)  
  •  Saigon to Calcutta by Emergency Airmail Service [addendum} (D Taylor Smith)
  •  An Interesting 1915 Ambulant (A Swain)

CONTENTS

The River Posts in Cambodia and Laos (J H Garner) 
Cameroun – A Tale of Three Covers (W G Mitchell)
The Year of Edmund Dulac (C W Spong)  
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories (E M Cohn)
Postal Humour (R I Johnson)
Pages from my Collection  (12) World War I POW Camps in Morocco (R C Deakin)
Shorter Items:
  •  An Odd Thai Cover (J M S Roberts)  
  •  Indo-China Cover (D Taylor Smith)  
  •  The 50c Jeanne d’Arc Stamp - erratum (M L Bister)  
  •  La Grande Cassure (Yv 60A - 25c type 1) (P W Palmer)  
  •  Mail from French Occupied Togo to French Occupied Morocco (E J Mayne)  
  •  The French Union - addendum (C W Spong)  
  •  Another “Unused” False Merson Emerges (D Jennings-Bramly)
  •  Air Orient from Poste aux Armées 600 (I McQueen)  
  •  An “affranchissement philatélique” (J M Simmons)

CONTENTS

Postal Humour (R I Johnson)  
Togo: the French Occupation (6 August 1914 - 30 September 1922) – Some New Discoveries (W G Mitchell)  
Introduction to the Rural and Urban Post during the Type Sage period 1876-1900 (P R A Kelly)
French Internment Camps (continued): Chapter 15 - Brens (Tarn) (D J Richardson)
Shorter Items:
  •  An Unrecorded Courrier-Convoyeur-Ligne (?) (A Swain)
  •  Where has Monsieur Sinais gone? (J M Simmons)  
  •  Issues for German Cameroon and Togo used by the French (E J Mayne)
  •  French Cinderella Stamps or Labels (C W Spong)  
  •  French Indian Settlements to Cochin-China (J West, R Wood)
  •  ColiPoste (M S Tyler)  
  •  Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 56 (E M Cohn)  
  •  Pages From My Collection: (13) Fakes and Forgeries of 20th Century French Postage Stamps (R G Gethin)  

CONTENTS

Internal Parcel Post (Bernard Lucas)
The Concessionary Franco-Canadian Rates (Mick Bister)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 58 (Ernst Cohn)
French West Africa - the First (Provisional) Issue of 1943-44 (Bill Mitchell)
Pages From My Collection (14) - The French Foreign Legion in Morocco (Bob Deakin)
Aspects of the Postal History of French West Africa North of the Niger (Peter Kelly)
Îles Éparses: Stations Météorologiques Françaises (Colin Spong)
Printed Matter Sent in Open Envelopes 1.1.1876 to 1.5.1878 (Peter Kelly & Chris Hitchen)
Sex in Postal History (Jerry Massler)
Shorter Items
 •  Rural and Local Postmen of the Type Sage Period 1876-1900 (Peter Kelly)
•  Two puzzling covers - (1) a boîte rurale mark, and (2) a postage deficiency label (Gerald Gosling)
 •  French Cameroun - Perforations of the 1946 Set (Rob May)
 •  World War I Censorship in Niger (Michael Ensor)
 •  50F Guynemer (Mick Bister)
 •  Le Type Sage - an 1898 Military/Maritime Cover (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Air Orient from Poste aux Armées 600 (David Taylor Smith, Georges Barot)
 •  Folded Business Postcards (Ernst Cohn)

CONTENTS

The Cancellations of Bureaux de Recette, Facteurs Boîtiers and Bureaux Auxiliaires, 1876-1900 (Peter Kelly)
The Post Offices of French West Africa, Part 2 - Ivory Coast (Bill Mitchell & Laurence Lambert)
The 1F75 Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to France, Part 1 (Mick Bister)
The Paknam Incident (John Garner)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 60 (Ernst Cohn)
Shorter Items:
 •  50F Guynemer (Alan Wood)
 •  Two Unusual Covers (Colin Spong & Grahame Lindsey)
 •  From France to South Africa in the Boer War (Peter Kelly & Richard Stroud)
 •  POW Camp in Kenya (Georges Barot)
 •  Three Covers (Gerald Gosling)
 •  FWA and Togo Mixed Franking (David Tress)
 •  Boîte Rurale and Décime Rural (Peter Kelly, Roland Goutay, Tony Swinburn, Ian McQueen)

CONTENTS

A 20F Pont du Gard Perforation 11 x 11 Variety (David Jennings-Bramly)
The Post Offices of French West Africa, Part 2 - Ivory Coast (conclusion) (Bill Mitchell & Laurence Lambert)
The 1F75 Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to France, Part 2 (Mick Bister)
Pages From My Collection 15 - Development of Air Routes via Mauritania (Peter Kelly)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 62 (Ernst Cohn)
Cameroun - Spanish Guinea Postal Connections (Marty Bratzel)
Post-Independence Djibouti (Peter Upson)
1876 Change in Stamping Mail between France and British Colonies (Robert Johnson)
Shorter Items:
 •  Boîte Rurale and Décime Rural (Georges Barot, Peter Maybury)
 •  French Departmental Numbers (Alan Wood)
 •  Private Prioritaire Label (John Simmons)
 •  POW Camp in Kenya (Colin Spong)
 •  "Return to Sender" Label on Unsealed Envelope between 1.1.1876 and 1.5.1878 (Robert Abensur)
 •  Two Interesting WWI Items (Alec Swain)
 •  The Post Offices of FWA - Benin/Dahomey: Supplement (Bill Mitchell & Laurence Lambert)

CONTENTS

The 1F75 Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to France, Part 3 (Mick Bister)
French Internment Camps (continued), Chapter 16 - Septfonds (Tarn-et-Garonne) (Derek Richardson)
A Presursor of Recouvrement Postal (Robert Abensur)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 64 (Ernst Cohn)
Pages From My Collection 16 - Red Cross Card from Morocco (Bob Deakin)
Togo: The 1921 "Mandate" Issue - an Outstanding Perforation Variety (Jeremy Martin & Bill Mitchell)
Postal Tariff Information at the Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer (CAOM) (Marty Bratzel)
Tariffs: Madagascar Air Tariffs 1929-1949 (Jacques Desnos)
Shorter Items:
 •  US Forces Postcard from Guadeloupe (John West)
 •  Pas de Nom / Dist. Impossible (John Simmons)
 •  18th Century Pre-stamp Covers from Lisbon (David Stirrups)
 •  Two Unusual Covers (Fred Goatcher)
 •  Air France "New Night Air Mail" Label (Robert Johnson)
 •  Inspectors' Marks (Small Number in Circle) (David Jennings-Bramly)
 •  Le Type Sage - an 1898 Military/Maritime Cover (Bill Mitchell)
 •  World War I Oval Censorship Marks in France (Chris Hitchen & Stéphane Strowski tr Maurice Tyler)
 •  1878 Exposition Universelle Vignette (Robert Johnson)
 •  Congo Français Handwritten AR Form (Robert Johnson)

CONTENTS

Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 66 (Ernst Cohn)
Tariffs of Registered Letters Sent Abroad from France 1860-1880 (Thomas Berger}
Airmail Letter Rates from FWA to the UK and other European Countries before WWII (Bob Picirilli)
Hors Sac Mail (Jean-Luc Trassaert tr Mick Bister)
Tariffs: French Colonies' Postage Fee Equivalents for 1946 and 1949 (COL.FRA)
Shorter Items:
 •  Corsican "Bandit" Cachet (David Jennings-Bramly)
 •  Marianne de Briat Envelopes with Self-adhesive Flap (John Simmons)
 •  18th Century Pre-stamp Covers from Lisbon (Bill Mitchell, Fred Goatcher)
 •  But postcards can be opened (Robert Johnson)
 •  Cachets Cancelling Airmail Routes (Robert Johnson, Barbara Priddy)
 •  Czech-French Query (Colin Spong)
 •  Madagascar: 1903 Issue - Zebu and Traveller's Tree (Colin Spong)
 •  Benin Commemorative with 3 Dates (Peter Upson)
 •  Colonies Packet Section (John West)

CONTENTS

A Message brought to Paris by Pigeon Post in 1870-71 (Ashley Lawrence)
French Andorra - the Merson Stamps (Alec Jacques)
Interzone Mail (1940-1944) - Part 1 (Roy Reader)
Pages From My Collection 17: French West Africa - not just a few pretty pictures (Bill Mitchell)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 68 (Ernst Cohn)
Index to Subjects in Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories (Ernst Cohn)
Shorter Items:
 •  Double Cancellation on Presidency Stamps (Richard Cheshire)
 •  Essays: The Bordès Proposal (Alan Wood)
 •  Inspectors' Marks (Small Number in Circle) (Peter Maybury)
 •  Service Suspended: Guatemala, June 1988 (Robert Johnson)
 •  Indo-China Postage Dues (David Taylor Smith)
 •  POW Camp in Kenya (Colin Spong, Georges Barot)
 •  Dépôt de l'Armée Polonaise, Vitré (George Leguen de Lacroix)