Number 232 June 2004

CONTENTS

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)