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The 1 July 1854 Basic Letter Rate (André Métayer, trs Mick Bister)
Dahomey International Communications at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries: a supplement (Bill Mitchell)
New Cancellations by La Poste (Maurice Tyler)
Boyer the Society Parfumeur (David Jennings-Bramly)
The 1F50 Pétain + 50 S N Overprint (Y&T 552): Part 1 (Mick Bister
The Alpha and Omega of Field Service Correspondence from the Cameroons Campaign 1914-1916 (Bob Maddocks)
French Guiana (Tony Shepherd)
Shorter Items:
 •  Defaced Stamps (Peter Whiting)
 •  Free French Overprints on Colonial Stamps (Brian Weeks)
 •  Postes, Prost and Pétain (David Lamb)
 •  Obsolete Values on French UNESCO Stamps (John Mayne)
 •  Interesting St Helena Items (Bob Deakin)
 •  Marianne Solidarité Haïti Issue (Mick Bister)
 •  Cameroun Post Offices: Bda Up Station (Bob Maddocks)
 •  World War II - Northbound Airmails by the British air route (Rob May)
 •  Bureau Naval 53 (Colin Spong)

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The 1F50 Pétain + 50 S N Overprint (Y&T 552): Part 2 (Mick Bister)
Scarce as Hens' Teeth - the Booklet Stamps of French Cameroun (Marty Bratzel)
Titanic Covers that Missed the Boat? (David Jennings-Bramly)
Shorter Items:
 •  Bureau Naval 53 (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Cameroun to Gabon 1916 (Jeremy Martin)
 •  Obsolete Values on French UNESCO Stamps (Michael Meadowcroft)
 •  Free French Overprints on Colonial Stamps (Bob Wood, David Taylor Smith)
 •  Anglo-French Occupation of Togo 1914-1915: German Reply Card Overprinted for French Use (John Mayne)
 •  New Cancellations by La Poste (Peter Maybury, Héloise Mitchell, John Simmons)
 •  A "Solidarité Haïti" Marianne (John Simmons)
 •  French POW in Kenya (Colin Spong)

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French Registered and Insured Mail (Alan Wood)
The 1F50 Pétain + 50 S N Overprint (Y&T 552): Part 3 (Mick Bister)
Titanic Covers that Missed the Boat? (David Jennings-Bramly)
Shorter Items:
 •  Mail sent from France to Switzerland 1828-45: A request for information (Steve Ellis)
 •  Pneumatic and Horoplan Cancels (Héloise Mitchell)
 •  Poste Militaire No. 560 (John Mayne)
 •  New French Sorting Offices (Maurice Tyler, John Simmons)
 •  La Poste makes the most of the World Cup!(John Simmons)
 •  Titanic Covers that Missed the Boat? (Bob Paterson)
 •  Censored Cover from French Occupied Togo to Germany via Switzerland (John Mayne)
 •  Varieties of Senegal 1915-18 Red Cross Issues (John Mayne)
 •  German Reply Card Overprinted for French Use in Togo 1914-1915: Lost item (John Mayne)
 •  A Couple of Corrections: Milliard de la Libération and Bureau Naval 53 (Bill Mitchell)
 •  New Salon du Timbre Sheets (Richard Broadhurst)

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Five centimes Sage stamps of Types IIA and IIB (Derek Richardson & Godfrey Bowden)
A World War I Card from a Thai Pilot in France (John Garner)
La Poste Navale - Some Notes on French Naval Posts in the Two World Wars (Bill Mitchell)
More Gremlin Activity in Cameroon Philately: Cameroon Airlines et al (Bob Maddocks)
Boyer Enlarged (David Jennings-Bramly)
Shorter Items:
 •  Charlecote Park (Judith & Stephen Holder)
 •  Poste Militaire No. 560 (David Taylor Smith)
 •  Landing Site of a Ballon Monté (Peter Whiting)
 •  The 1F50 Pétain + 50 S N Overprint - Addendum (Mick Bister)
 •  Train-borne Machine Canceller (Michael Ensor)
 •  Posted Early for Christmas - or a Premature Item for Noël (John Simmons)
 •  Varieties of Senegal 1915-18 Red Cross Issues (Bruno Mattei)
 •  New Cancellations by La Poste (Peter Maybury)
 •  Books Recommended by Members (Bernard Sharp, Colin Spong)
 •  French Registration and Insurance (Peter Kelly & Chris Hitchen)
 •  The New Hebrides Booklet (Alan Wood)

CONTENTS

Canada-France Concessionary Rate Established in 1929 (Mike Street)
The 1936 'Vimy Ridge' Issue (Mick Bister)
French Colonies and the Luxembourg/Canada Concessions of 1928-1929 (Bill Mitchell)
A French / Thai Postcard (John Garner)
Shorter Items:
 •  Varieties of Senegal 1915-18 Red Cross Issues (John West, Jim Moffat)
 •  Orphelins de l'Incursion (John Mayne, Maurice Tyler)
 •  New Machine Marks (Peter Maybury)
 •  German Taxe Marks on Togo and Kamerun/Cameroun Mail (Marty Bratzel)
 •  Hong Kong / Saigon Postmark (Alain Millet, Bill Mitchell, Peter Maybury, Ed Grabowski, Claire Scott)
 •  Missent Letter (John Simmons)
 •  More Gremlin Activity in Cameroon Philately: Cameroon Airlines et al (Bob Maddocks)
 •  Cover Malta to Marseille with COLONIES PAR / MARSEILLE Handstamp (Alfred Bonnici, Peter Maybury)
 •  Train-borne Machine Canceller (Héloise Mitchell)
 •  First French Par Avion Airmail Label (Paul Watkins)
 •  Nice Day of the Stamp Regiostered Souvenir Card (Bob Larg
 •  Help Needed: Paris Star 4 (Stan Luft)
 •  Red Cross Tracing Label marked "o.O" (John West)
 •  Poste Militaire No 560 (Bill Mitchell)

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The Status of the French Post Office in Beirut after 1 October 1914 (Semaan Bassil)
La Belle France Vignettes (Godfrey Bowden, ill. John Mayne)
Use of the Low Value Green Stamps of the Type Sage Issue of France 1876-1878 (Peter Kelly)
La Poste Senegal Meter Stamps (Marc Parren)
Shorter Items:
 •  Nice Day of the Stamp Souvenir Card (Len Rowe)
 •  Réunion CFA Postal Rates (John Dickson, Derek Richardson)
 •  New Machine Marks (Maurice Tyler)
 •  Paris Star 4 (Stephen Holder, Chris Hitchen, Jean Kubler)
 •  Togo: Recent Discoveries (John Mayne)
 •  Morocco: Surcharges à Cheval (Bob Deakin)
 •  Thomas Cook Civilian Undercover Mail (Ed Fraser)
 •  20F + 20F France-Canada Rate (Mick Bister)
 •  Vimy Ridge First Day Cover (Mick Bister)
 •  Sage Fakes / Facsimiles (Godfrey Bowden)
 •  WWI Military Abbreviations (Peter Maybury)

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France: North African Expansionism 1881-1914 - An Overview (Peter Maybury)
A "Recommandé d'office" carried by the Paris-Turin relay (Luca Lavagnino)
Chad: The Use of the Stamps of the Sudan at Adré in 1925 (John Yeomans)
The Free French Cameroun Definitive Overprints of 27.8.40 (Bob Maddocks)
Cameroun Français 27.8.40 - More on Trial B (Dudley Cobb)
Shorter Items:
Paris Star 4 (Stan Luft)
 •  1869 5F Louis Napoleon in Red (Harris Rosenberg)
 •  20F + 20F France-Canada Rate - Erratum (Mick Bister)
 •  Smallest and Largest Stamps of France (John West)
 •  Thomas Cook Civilian Undercover Mail (Mick Bister, Bob Maddocks, Ingrid Swinburn)
 •  Kamerun Border Commission Vignettes (John Mayne)
 •  Thomas Cook Civilian Undercover Mail (Ed Fraser)
 •  Telegraph Office and Post Office Date Stamps on the same Card (John Woodcock)
 •  Soudan: Two Mysteries (Michael Ensor)
 •  Vimy Ridge First Day Cover (Don Hedger)
 •  Yet Another Forged Duala Kamerun Postmark (Marty Bratzel)
 •  A Philatelic Confection (Mick Bister)
 •  Madagascar Related: French POW Camps in Kenya (Colin Spong) Tahiti Overprint (John Mayne)

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French Naval Posts in North and West Africa in WWII - the use of Algerian stamps and an unnoticed airmail fee (Bill Mitchell)
Proofs of Algerian Stamps 1936-1940 (Gilbert Smith)
Mail carried by estafette between France and England (1829-1836) (André Métayer)
Cameroons Expeditionary Force 1914-16: Two further covers from Capt F L N Giles (Bob Maddocks)
Shorter Items:
 •  1869 5F Louis Napoleon in Red (Philip Mackey)
 •  Dahomey - A Bogus 1915 Red Cross Overprint "Error" (Bill Mitchell)
 •  1940 French Red Cross Stamps: item sought (John West)
 •  Napoleon Poster Stamps (Roger Finlay)
 •  Morocco 1942 Postage Due with Triangular Label (John Smith)
 •  Croix Rouge Française - Delegation Bayreuth (David Hogarth)
 •  Recently Deceased Members - Comments (Colin Spong, Paul Watkins)

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The "Défense de la France" Forgery of the 1F50 Pétain (Reflections and Revelations (Mick Bister)
French West Africa - France Combattante: Aide à la Résistance 11.11.1943 (Bob Maddocks)
Rixheim in the 19th Century (Stan Luft)
Some Handstamps Applied to Mail between the Channel Islands and France 1773-1843 (Richard Flemming)
The 1 Franc Cérès de Mazelin of 1945 - A 1952 Maritime Mail Puzzle Cover (Bill Mitchell)
Shorter Items:
 •  German Feldpost Date Stamps on French Blanc Issues (Stephen Roche, Maurice Tyler)
 •  Soudan - Two Mysteries (Peter Kelly)
 •  Napoleon Poster Stamps (Harris Rosenberg)
 •  Rates from France to the Saar in 1952 (John Dickson)
 •  Business Continuity (David Herendeen)

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Postal Relationships between Belgian Congo and French Congo, Part 1 (Philippe Lindekens)
Early Transsaharan Mails (Peter Kelly)
The French Post Office in Tunisia (Peter Maybury)
Shorter Items:
 •  Philatex 2012 (photos by Godfrey Bowden)
 •  Rixheim in the 19th Century: Corrections (Stan Luft)
 •  French West Africa - France Combattante: Aide à la Résistance 11.11.1943 (Brian Weeks, Bill Mitchell)
 •  Identification of La Poste Code Number 38770A (Peter Whiting, Maurice Tyler)
 •  Poste Navale Bureaux in West Africa (Barbara Priddy)
 •  Cameroun: 1F75 Forgeries (Dudley Cobb)
 •  Cameroun Français: Femme de Lamido (Dudley Cobb)
 •  French POW Cachet used in Japan? (Peter High)
 •  An Interzone Card Charged Postage Due (Roy Reader)
 •  German 6th Army Feldpost Date Stamp on French Semeuse Camée Issue (Bill Mitchell)
 •  French Cameroun "COURRIER ORDINAIRE / ORDINARY MAIL" Cachet (Bob Maddocks)
 •  Marianne et l'Europe (4th Series) (John Simmons)
 •  French Naval Forces in the Borneo Area (Jeremy Dickson)