Number 310 April 2026
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CONTENTS
– “A France at Peace and a France ripe for development” Some perspectives on the Second Empire through Postal History - Part 2: Foreign policy and transatlantic mail (Roger Niven)
– There’s No Business… Like Show Business – Connections on French Stamps - Part 12 (David Parmley
– Senegal: Catalogue of newly introduced postmarks of the Société Nationale la Poste as from 2014
– A Brief Overview of Postal History in Senegal since Independence (Marc Parren)
– Precursors of the French postal card Part 8: Continuation and conclusion (Frans Jorissen)
– The Life and Times of Dr Delafon (Mick Bister)
– A Doctor Delafon Late Cover (Rodney Gent)
– Réunion and the Mauritius Government Colonial Packet Service - from Mauritius to Ceylon 1848-1856 - Together with a study of part-payment of mails during the period (Peter R.A.Kelly)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
• Cameroun – Specimen Overprints on London-Issue Stamps (Marty Bratzel)
• Spectacular Yaoundé Cameroun Postmark (Marty Bratzel)
• Usage of the Série Sites et Monuments/ Série touristique (Edwin Voerman)
• Madagascar - 1942 Airmail variety (Miles Cerny)
• Cameroun – Censorship of Mail Outside the Postal System (Marty Bratzel)
• Beyond the Book: the Senegal Baobab Officials of 1965-91 (Michael Round)
• Gabon 1910 - 18 shades (Miles Cerny)
• Sir Winston Churchill (Richard Broadhurst)
• Guadeloupe 1884 (Miles Cerny)
• The demise of the Yellow Postbox. Reprinted from The Times Newspapers
Bookshelf (Compiled by Michael Round)
• Yvert & Tellier ‘Timbres de France’ 2026 Catalogue (Reviewed by Richard Broadhurst)
• The Postage and Revenue Meter Stamps of Cameroun by Marty Bratzel Jr. and Dr. Marc Parren (Reviewed by Rob May FRPSL)
Reports of Meetings
• London Group Meeting 21 January 2026 (Roger Niven)
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler)
New-issue listings from: Gibbons Stamp Monthly (GSM): August 2025 - February 2026 (Compiled by Michael Round
Society Notes
Obituary - David Bailey
The Geoff Gethin Award
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