Number 230 December 2003

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)