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CONTENTS

Interzone Mail (1940-1944) - Part 2 (Roy Reader)
The Pre-War Sower Épreuves de Luxe (David Jennings-Bramly)
French Equatorial Africa - two remote post offices and a competition (Robert Johnson)
France &nd Colonies Philatelic Society of Great Britain - Rules
Tariffs - Postal Rates for Mail Leaving the French Colonies 1876-1960 [Part 1 - to 1945] (Hervé Drye)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 70 (Ernst Cohn)
Shorter Items:
 •  Czech-French Query on Palissy Label (Mick Bister)
 •  Indo-China TPOs (David Taylor Smith)
 •  Laos Stamps with Obliterated Legend (Michael Round)
 •  Postage Due: Chiffres-Taxe Carrés (Robert Abensur)
 •  Togo - the 1921 "Mandate" Issue: Earliest Recorded Dates of Use - an Update (Bill Mitchell)
 •  WWI Postcard of Aeroplane and Eiffel Tower (Gerald Gosling)
 •  Zanzibar Postmark on Sage Stamps (Stewart Gardiner)
 •  French West Africa: Benin/Dahomey (John Mayne)

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Interzone Mail (1940-1944) - Part 3 (Roy Reader)
Hollow Star Cancellation on Pétain and other Stamps (Roy Reader)
Postage Due Stamps and Usages of French Colonies (Robert Stone)
Folded Business Postcards (Ian McQueen)
The 1F75 Royal Visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to France - Type 1 and 2 Sheet Printings (Mick Bister)
Congo Français - Oubangui-Chari: Concessionary Rates to Canada (Robert Johnson)
World War II French Naval Post - the Bâtiment de Ligne "Richelieu" (Bill Mitchell)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 72 (Ernst Cohn)
Shorter Items:
 •  French POW Camp in Kenya - a Postscript (Colin Spong)
 •  Benin and Mail from Togoland (John Sacher)
 •  A Query about the British Post Office Strike of 1971 and BP 300 at Calais (Robert Johnson)
 •  WWI Postcard of Aeroplane and Eiffel Tower (Jim Moffat, Don Malcolm)
 •  New PRIORITAIRE Handstamp in the Yvelines (John Simmons)
 •  De Gaulle's Stamp Campaign (Peter Whiting)
 •  New Numbers on Coil Stamps (Gerald Gosling)
 •  Czech-French Query on Palissy Label (Graham Slater)

CONTENTS

La Semeuse - The Early Years (Ashley Lawrence)
Pages From My Collection 18 - The Suspension of Mail Services in Time of War and Revolution (Robert Johnson)
Some Early Machine Cancels - 1 (Bill Mitchell)
A Red 10c Sower Rarity (David Jennings-Bramly)
La Semeuse - Chronology and Postal Usage (Ashley Lawrence)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 74 (Ernst Cohn)
The Sower - Miscellaneous Items (Robert Johnson)
The Sower in Literature (Alan Wood)
1914 - the 10c Red Sower and the Red Cross (John West)
Tariffs: Internal Letter Rates 1849-2002 (Derek Richardson)
Shorter Items:
 •  Algeria - the 1943 "E.F.M." Telegram Stamps (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Togo: the 1921 "Mandate" Issue Again! (Bill Mitchell)
 •  The Woermann Line (John Mayne)
 •  Département Conquis 131 (Arthur Dent)
 •  WWII Censorship and Cancelled Airmail Marks (John Sears)
 •  French Post Office in Shanghai (Malcolm Givans)
 •  Benin and Mail from Togo (John Mayne)

CONTENTS

The Le Monde des Philatélistes Brochure celebrates its Golden Jubilee (Mick Bister)
Some Early Machine Cancels - 2 (Bill Mitchell)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 76 (Ernst Cohn)
Airmail Cover - Bordeaux to Cameroun - 1940-41 (Marty Bratzel)
Togo in World War I - The French Occupation Issues (Jeremy Martin and Bill Mitchell)
Pages From My Collection 19 - An Interesting Guadeloupe Cover (John West)
Fournier's Facsimiles (Alan Wood)
Exchange of Commercial Mail between Switzerland and Occupied France and vice versa (Erik Menne Larsen)
Shorter Items:
 •  Powers of Attorney to deal with Postal Matters (Robert Johnson)
 •  An Interesting Registered Express Airmail Cover (Len Rowe)
 •  Hollow Star Cancellations (Roy Reader)
 •  Airmail Postage Paid Marking from Algiers 1940 (Ian McQueen)
 •  Interesting Overprinted Items (John Mayne)
 •  Mail Addressed to French India (Ron Wood)
 •  WWII Censorship and Cancelled Airmail Marks (Roy Reader)

CONTENTS

France: the Tariff of 1676 (Peter Maybury)
Le Photoposte (Jean-Luc Trassaert tr Mick Bister)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 78 (Ernst Cohn)
Some Early Machine Cancels - 3 (Bill Mitchell)
The Incredible Journey of a 5c Sage Printed Matter Envelope - a Challenge and a Reward (Peter Kelly)
Stations Météorologiques Françaises - Tromelin Island (Colin Spong)
Fournier's Facsimiles: Supplement (Alan Wood)
Shorter Items:
 •  POW Camp in Kenya (Georges Barot)
 •  WWII Gabon Cover with Croix de Lorraine (Georges Barot)
 •  Prize Court (Ingrid Swinburn)
 •  Œuvre du Pain (Michael Wilson)
 •  Mail Addressed to French India (David Taylor Smith, Colin Spong)
 •  Guadeloupe 1917 Red Cross Issue Cover (Bill Mitchell, Peter Maybury)
 •  Czechs in the French Foreign Legion (Brian Day)
 •  WWI Service Suspended from French Guiana to Belgium (Robert Johnson)
 •  Cover Posted at Sea (John Simmons)
 •  Fournier's Facsimiles - a Comment (George Barker)
 •  A French Slogan Postmark (Richard Wheatley)

CONTENTS

Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 80 (Ernst Cohn)
An American Kindness ...... A Tale from the Siege of Paris 1870-71 (Ashley Lawrence)
Diverted Mail 1870-71, Parts 1 and 2 (Raymond Pittier tr Maurice Tyler)
Some Early Machine Cancels - 4 (Bill Mitchell)
Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (Colin Spong)
French West Africa: Benin - the Early Years (Colin Spong)
Shorter Items:
 •  The Bernardin de St Pierre (Peter Denning, Richard Wheatley)
 •  The Treatment of Copies as Printed Matter during the Type Sage Period (Peter Kelly)
 •  Fournier's Facsimiles (Alan Wood)
 •  Postcards in the Series "Nos Départements" (Edwin Rideout)
 •  Czechs in the French Foreign Legion (Bill Mitchell)
 •  WWII Gabon Cover with Croix de Lorraine (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Propaganda Card (Peter Maybury)
 •  Postal Rates Calculator (Robert Johnson)
 •  A French cds from Shanghai (Ian McQueen)

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Congo (Brazzaville) - the 'Woman and Child' Definitives of 1996-8 (Michael Round)
Congo Français Provisionals (Robert Johnson)
Some Early Machine Cancels - 5 (Bill Mitchell)
The Siege of Agadez in 1916 - a By-Product of World War I in the Colony of Niger (Peter Kelly)
Postal Sector 390 (Roy Reader)
World War II French Naval Post - More on the Bàtiment de Ligne "Richelieu" (Bill Mitchell)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 82 (Ernst Cohn)
Shorter Items:
 •  Italian Postal Stationery adapted for use in POW Camps in Kenya (Georges Barot)
 •  Œuvre du Pain (Maurice Tyler)
 •  Togo Overprints - the 1921 issue again! (John Mayne)
 •  De Gaulle in Britain (David Hogarth)
 •  Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (John Mayne, John Sacher, Robert Johnson, Chris Palmer)
 •  Monaco/Munich (Maurice Tyler)
 •  Île de France Catapult Mail September 1928 and August 1929 (David Hogarth)
 •  Benin - the Early Years (John Sacher)
 •  Czechs in the French Foreign Legion (Brian Day)
 •  Military Initials in Indochina (David Taylor Smith)

CONTENTS

The Post Offices of French West Africa: Part 3 - Mauritania (introduction) (Bill Mitchell and Laurence Lambert)
The One Centime Picture Postcard Rate (Derek Richardson)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 84 (Ernst Cohn)
Postcards from Dieppe (Peter Hartland-Swann)
Visiting Cards - a brief history of rates, regulations and postal stationery Part 1 (Mick Bister)
Some Early Machine Cancels - 6 (Bill Mitchell)
Shorter Items:
 •  Indo-China First Flight Covers (David Taylor Smith)
 •  Tientsin C.P.O. (Dennis Collins)
 •  Czechs in the French Foreign Legion (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Unlisted Ivory Coast Stamps (Peter Upson)
 •  De Gaulle in Britain (Robert Johnson)
 •  Red Cross Postcard from the Ivory Coast (John West)
 •  Military Initials in Indo-China (Maurice Tyler)
 •  A Successful Fraud on the Postes (David Jennings-Bramly)
 •  Madagascar: Taxe Perçue Handstamps 1944-46 (Ian McQueen)
 •  Œuvre du Pain (Maurice Tyler)
 •  Vie et Santé (Mick Bister)
 •  Île de France Catapult Mail (John Lea)

CONTENTS

Visiting Cards - a brief history of rates, regulations and postal stationery Part 2 (Mick Bister)
Porte-Timbres Vignettes (Ashley Lawrence)
The Money-Stamps of France (Ashley Lawrence)
The Post Offices of French West Africa: Part 3 - Mauritania (conclusion) (Bill Mitchell and Laurence Lambert)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 86 (Ernst Cohn)
France - The Red Cross, Part 1 (John West)
Shorter Items:
 •  Avis de Réception in the Former French Colonies (David Taylor Smith)
 •  A Recent Find (David Jennings-Bramly)
 •  A Treble Abus de Confiance (David Jennings-Bramly)
 •  Benin Mail Collected by German Mail Boat (John Mayne)
 •  New £5 Coin (David Jennings-Bramly)

CONTENTS

France - The Red Cross, Part 2 (John West)
Amazing 1870-71 Wonder Stories - 88 (Ernst Cohn)
An Introduction to French Machine Cancellations (Iain Stevenson)
Senegal - The 1915 Red Cross Stamp, Commercially Used! (Bill Mitchell)
Postal Sector 390 (Roy Reader)
Postal History Projects and Proposals (Marty Bratzel)
Shorter Items:
 •  B. de V. (Robert Johnson)
 •  A 10c Blanc Mystery (David Jennings-Bramly)
 •  AV Labels (Ian McQueen)
 •  1908 Paris Markings (Ruth Wilcock)
 •  French Internet Site (Derek Richardson)
 •  Paris Parcel Post (Alan Wood)