Number 253 September 2009

CONTENTS

Reminiscences of the Early Days (George Barker, Mick Bister, Chris Easton, Ray Hill, Harold Hilton, John Mayne, Bill Mitchell, Heloise Mitchell) 23 Years Ago [photos at Society competition evening]
The Development of the Services of the Postes et Télégraphes in Sénégambie-Niger 1900-1903 (Peter Kelly)
A Few Months after the Abolition of Slavery, a Letter from St Lucia to France (Robert Abensur, trs Peter Kelly)
An unusual articles d'argent letter of 1779 (Peter Maybury)
From Senegal to the Mexican Expedition of 1863... Looking for Naval Surgeon Moinet (Michèle Chauvet, trs Peter Kelly) Postes, Prost and Pétain (Mick Bister)
Vacillations of a Minister [new 10c Sower 1906](André Métayer, trs Mick Bister)
So Who Was Mr Kidder? [Siege of Paris correspondence] (Ashley Lawrence)
Martinique: The 'Ordonnance' (Order) of 24 April - 14 May 1835 (Guy Dutau, trs Peter Kelly)
Shorter Items:
 •  Airmails of the French Congo (Bob Picirilli)
 •  Identification of Classic Stamps (Ken Dixon)
 •  Defaced Stamps (Mike Roberts, Maurice Tyler)
 •  WWII Cover from Vichy France to Greenland (Wilbur Jonsson)
 •  SÉNÉGAL Diagonal Overprint of 1884 (Bruno Mattei)
 •  1924 Paris Olympics Labels (Godfrey Bowden)
 •  New Philatelic Website [for Alsace-Lorraine] (Roy Reader)
 •  WWII Airmail Rates from French Equatorial Africa (Bob Picirilli)