Number 229 September 2003

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)