Journal

The Journal of the France & Colonies Philatelic Society is published four times per year, in March, June, September and December.
It contains articles by members and non-members on all aspects of philately, postal history and related topics concerning France and her former Colonies.
A list of the contents of the most recent Journals will give an idea of what may be expected.
Some of these issues are still available at the price of £2.50 each plus postage for members or £4.00 including postage for non-members.
Many earlier issues of the Journal, especially the smaller format ones (numbers 97 to 214), are also still available at a special price.
Contact the , J P Maybury, 18 Courtneys, Wheldrake, York YO19 6BR to check availability and price.

Society Notes, Lists of Recently Published Articles (in French and other philatelic periodicals), Reports of Meetings, Illustrated Auction Lots, Books Reviewed and Noted, and the annual Index (in the last issue of the year) are all regular features.

Number 245 - September 2007

Number 244 - June 2007

  • The Postage Stamps of the French National Liberation Committee, Algiers, in WWII (Bob Maddocks)
  • The Post Offices of French West Africa, Part 4 - French Guinea (conclusion) (Bill Mitchell & Laurence Lambert)
  • French Airline Network 1928 - extract from booklet (Robert Johnson)
  • Shorter Items:
    • Anglo-French Occupation of Togo (John Mayne)
    • British Porte-Timbres (André Métayer, trs Maurice Tyler)
    • Taxed Tunisian Postcard (Godfrey Bowden)
    • French Training Camps in Kenya (Colin Spong)
    • Red Star Mark on 35c Sage Stamp (Godfrey Bowden)
    • French Sudan 1940 Airmail Stamps (Richard Wheatley)
    • Marianne de Gandon 'à la bretelle' Variety (Godfrey Bowden)
    • Cécogrammes in Cameroun (Marc Parren)
    • A Philatelic Poem (Bob Maddocks)
    • Jeu de Barres (John Simmons)
    • Definition of 'figurines' (Maurice Tyler)
    • Benin - Postal Use of Military Telegraph Date Stamps (Peter Kelly)
    • The Ecological Counter Booklet (John Simmons)
    • A Postcard from the Belgian Congo via French Congo and the Sudan to France (Peter Kelly)
    • Unusual Tunisian Cancellation (David Taylor Smith)

Number 243 - March 2007

  • The Post Offices of French West Africa, Part 4 - French Guinea (Bill Mitchell & Laurence Lambert)
  • Mail Order Manifestations (Bob Maddocks)
  • The Early Posts from Polynesia - Tales of Missionaries, Cannibals and a Patron of Gauguin! (Hilton Israelson)
  • Tariffs and Postal Regulations: Cochin-China Colonial Post, Saigon Office, with Erratum
  • Shorter Items:
    • V in Circle on Indian Cover to Indo-China (David Taylor Smith)
    • 1905 Official Indo-China Cover (David Taylor Smith)
    • Forged Cameroun Français Overprints (Dudley Cobb)
    • Re-use of the Boxed Registration Handstamp (Colin Spong, Jack Blanc)
    • Much Travelled Mail - Italy to Ivory Coast (John Mayne)
    • Cameroun Taxe Marks (John Mayne)
    • Printed Envelopes from Saigon (Ian McQueen)
    • French Boycott: 1973 Courier Mail (Roger Allen)
    • The French Franc Lives! (Geoff Gethin)
    • The First Interzone Cards (Roy Reader)
    • Forces Françaises Libération Training Camp Kenya (Colin Spong)
    • ESPAÑA 2006 - Malaga 7-13 October 2006 (Lesley Marley)
    • Jeu de Barres (Peter Kelly)
    • French Indian Postal Stationery Query (David Taylor Smith)
    • Dahomey - An Unrecorded Cotonou Cancel (Bill Mitchell)
    • 1925 Paris Exhibition Labels Overprinted for Strasbourg 1927 (Geoff Gethin)
    • Censorship of WWII Covers from Senegal to Morocco (Barbara Priddy)
    • French Stamp Issuing Policy (John Simmons)
    • Phil@poste (Maurice Tyler)
    • Victory of Samothrace (Peter Baker)

Number 242 - December 2006

  • Stamps meeting the Basic Internal Letter (LSI) rate 1849-1949 (Godfrey Bowden)
  • Senegal - the 1902 "Letter in Circle" Cachets: A New Explanation (Bill Mitchell)
  • Benin - Postal Use of Military Telegraph Date Stamps (Bill Mitchell)
  • The Penalty Taxes of 1910 and 1920 - Part 2 (André Métayer)
  • Postal Rate Changes of 1 October 2006 (Derek Richardson)
  • Shorter Items:
    • Regions ... and More Regions (Michael Meadowcroft)
    • Indo-China / Thailand Auction Results (Mike Roberts)
    • Togo - the STATION PALIME Cancel (John Mayne)
    • Belgian Postcard Query (David Plant)
    • Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (John Mayne)
    • An Odd Meter Franking (Richard Wheatley)
    • Artwork for 1971 Laos Issues (David Taylor Smith, Maurice Tyler)

Number 241 - September 2006

  • A Postcard from the Belgian Congo and the Sudan to France (Robert Johnson & Richard Stock)
  • The Penalty Taxes of 1910 and 1920 - Part 1 (André Métayer)
  • French Airline Network 1928 (Robert Johnson)
  • SS Normandie (Ashley Lawrence)
  • Shorter Items:
    • Dallay Colonial Catalogues (Colin Spong)
    • Picture Postcard - "La barre prisonnière" (Bob Larg, Maurice Tyler)
    • Togo Taxe Marks (John Mayne)
    • Dahomey Cancels (John Mayne, Bill Mitchell)
    • French India Cover (Ron Wood)
    • Puzzling Lautier Type A1 Postmark Date and Zero Levée (Godfrey Bowden)
    • Charity Label Paying Postage (Bob Paterson)

Number 240 - June 2006

  • French POW Camps in Kenya (Colin Spong)
  • Senegal - Another WWII Red Cross Postcard, and some Early Direct Airmail to the USA (Bill Mitchell)
  • The 3F Cathedral of Reims Stamp (David Jennings-Bramly)
  • A Philatelic Postcard (John Simmons)
  • Postal Sector 390 (Roy Reader)
  • Tariffs and Postal Regulations: Cochin-China Colonial Post - Saigon Office (Martial Boyer)
  • Shorter Items:
    • Bora Bora Post Office (John Ray, Hilton Israelson)
    • A Two Booklet Tale (John Simmons)
    • Service Suspended Label on Cover to Vietnam (Robert Johnson)
    • A Generous Dutchman? (Michael Round)
    • Caisse d'Amortissement Issues of 1927-31 (Richard Broadhurst)
    • French Post Office Regions 1933 (Robert Johnson)
    • Re-use of the Boxed Registration Handstamp (Colin Spong)
    • Artwork for 1971 Laos Issues (Mick Bister)

Number 239 - March 2006

  • Guadeloupe Airmails (Tony Shepherd)
  • Cécogrammes (Mick Bister)
  • French POs in China - 1903 Provisional Dues (John Barefoot)
  • Modern Post Offices in Mali and in French Polynesia (Bob Maddocks)
  • Mauritania - the Bogus "KRONFA" Cancel: A New Discovery (Bill Mitchell)
  • Carry on Searching (David Jennings-Bramly)
  • Shorter Items:
    • French Postal Practice in a Former Colony - Chad (Jim Moffat)
    • Bibliography of Philatelic Literature of French Colonies (Peter Kelly)
    • The Dead Letter Office (Alan Wood)
    • Islands On the Air (Bill Mitchell, Maurice Tyler)
    • French PO in Shanghai (Bill Mitchell)
    • Airmail Cancel of Saigon (David Taylor Smith, Ron Bentley)
    • Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (John Yeomans)
    • Île de France Catapult Mail (Paul Zatulove)
    • British Cameroon Stamps (Rob May)
    • The World's First Airmail Postcards (Alan Wood)
    • Togo 1921 "Mandate" Issue - Update of Earliest Recorded Dates (John Mayne)

Number 238 - December 2005

  • Obituary of Bernard Berkinshaw-Smith (Chris Hitchen and Peter Kelly)
  • World's First Airmail Postcards (Ernst Cohn)
  • The 50c Jeanne d'Arc Stamp, Part II: An 1892 Precursor (Mick Bister with Jean-Paul Fournier)
  • The Treatment of Insufficiently Paid Letters between Member Countries of the GPU and UPU 1875-1879 (Robert Abensur and Peter Kelly)
  • The Story of a Soul (Stephen Toynbee)
  • One of the Islands On the Air (Richard Wheatley)
  • A Tax Anomaly (Derek Richardson)
  • The 'ANDORRE' overprints (Mick Bister)
  • Shorter Items:
    • Vapeur Mail Service in Senegal (John Mayne)
    • Togo 1922 Issues (John Mayne)
    • Jacobin Calendar (Anthony Milford Ward)
    • An Air Cancel Handstamp of Saigon? (Ian McQueen)
    • Rates: France to Jersey 1936/7 (Derek Richardson)
    • Bibliography of Philatelic Literature (Colin Spong)
    • Algeria Victory Issue of 1943 (Geoff Gethin)
    • Middle Congo Paquebot Cancel (Robert Johnson)
    • Re-use of the Boxed Registration Handstamp (Robert Johnson, Colin Spong)
    • French PO in Shanghai (Malcolm Givans)
    • Unrecorded Middle Congo Date Stamp (Robert Johnson)

Number 237 - September 2005

  • Obituary of Alan McKanna (Peter Kelly)
  • The 50c Jeanne d'Arc Stamp, Part I: The Marcel Marron Archive (Mick Bister)
  • Middle Congo - an Unrecorded Paquebot Cancel: Your Help, Please! (Bill Mitchell)
  • Too Many Commemorative Stamps in France? (Michael Round)
  • Re-use of the Boxed Registration Handstamp (Colin Spong)
  • Shorter Items:
    • Mail from French Forces in Dahomey (John Mayne)
    • Togo 1921 Issue (John Mayne)
    • Algeria Victory Issue of 1943 (John Mayne)
    • Star Perfin on 1F50 Pétain (Mick Bister)
    • Alsace Visiting Cards (Roy Reader, John Lucaci, Erik Menne Larsen)
    • Some Thoughts on the Future of Philately and Stamp Collecting (Mike James)
    • French India Date Stamp Problem (Ron Wood)
    • Use of the Handstruck "3" (Peter Maybury)
    • Morocco Protectorate Survivals of Poste Aérienne Cachet (Bill Mitchell)
    • Rates: France to Jersey 1936/7 (Philip Mackey)
    • Benin - Lagos Mail Service (John Mayne)

Number 236 - June 2005

  • Albert Stiefel - a Name from History (David Hogarth)
  • Mail between France and La Réunion 1864-1900 - the Lignes "T", "V" and "U" of the Messageries Maritimes (Peter Kelly)
  • The Mauritania Post Office in Saint-Louis (Senegal) (Bill Mitchell and Laurence Lambert)
  • British Censorship Control of Communications during WWII - Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and French Cameroon (Bob Maddocks)
  • France - Locally Made 2 Décimes Handstamps (Peter Maybury)
  • Obituary of Walter Parshall (Colin Spong)
  • The Vaguemestre (Roy Reader)
  • Shorter Items:
    • Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (Colin Spong)
    • French India Problem Cover (Ron Wood)
    • Star Perfin on 1F50 Pétain (Godfrey Bowden)
    • Use of the Handstruck "3" 1876 to 1 May 1878 - Corrigendum (Peter Kelly)
    • French India Reply Card (David Taylor Smith)
    • Morocco Protectorate Survivals of Poste Aérienne Cachet (Jim Moffat)
    • Alsace Visiting Cards (Mick Bister)

Number 235 - March 2005

  • Obituary of Ernst Cohn (Stephen Holder)
  • Airmail Letter Rates from French Equatorial Africa to France 1930-45 (Bob Picirilli)
  • Use of the Handstruck "3" during the First Period of the Type Sage Issue 1876 to 1 May 1878 (Peter Kelly)
  • The 1 Franc Cécogramme Rate or A la Recherche du Tarif Perdu (Mick Bister)
  • France - The Red Cross, Part 3 (John West)
  • Essential Philatelic Literature (Mick Bister, Peter Maybury, Bill Mitchell, Alan Wood)
  • The National Archives (Colin Spong)
  • Shorter Items:
    • Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (Robert Johnson, John Mayne, Colin Spong, John Yeomens)
    • A Register of the 1920 Bisects of Dahomey (Bill Mitchell)
    • Togo: The 1921 "Mandate" Issue - More Earliest Recorded Dates (Bill Mitchell)
    • Togo in World War I - The French Occupation Issues (Earliest Dates of Use) (Jeremy Martin and Bill Mitchell)
    • French India - A Problem Cover (John Yeomens)
    • Benin - Lagos Vapeur Service (John Mayne)

Number 234 - December 2004

  • 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)

Number 233 - September 2004

  • 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)

Number 232 - June 2004

  • 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)

Number 231 - March 2004

  • 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)

Number 230 - December 2003

  • 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)

Number 229 - September 2003

  • 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)

Number 228 - June 2003

  • 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)

Number 227 - March 2003 - Sower Centenary Issue

  • 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)

Number 226 - December 2002

  • 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)

Number 225 - September 2002

  • 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)

Number 224 - June 2002

  • 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)

Number 223 - March 2002

  • 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)

Number 222 - December 2001

  • 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)

Number 221 - September 2001

  • 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)

Number 220 - June 2001

  • 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)

Number 219 - March 2001

  • 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)

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