Number 235 March 2005

CONTENTS

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)