Number 255 March 2010

CONTENTS

The 1 July 1854 Basic Letter Rate (André Métayer, trs Mick Bister)
Dahomey International Communications at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries: a supplement (Bill Mitchell)
New Cancellations by La Poste (Maurice Tyler)
Boyer the Society Parfumeur (David Jennings-Bramly)
The 1F50 Pétain + 50 S N Overprint (Y&T 552): Part 1 (Mick Bister
The Alpha and Omega of Field Service Correspondence from the Cameroons Campaign 1914-1916 (Bob Maddocks)
French Guiana (Tony Shepherd)
Shorter Items:
 •  Defaced Stamps (Peter Whiting)
 •  Free French Overprints on Colonial Stamps (Brian Weeks)
 •  Postes, Prost and Pétain (David Lamb)
 •  Obsolete Values on French UNESCO Stamps (John Mayne)
 •  Interesting St Helena Items (Bob Deakin)
 •  Marianne Solidarité Haïti Issue (Mick Bister)
 •  Cameroun Post Offices: Bda Up Station (Bob Maddocks)
 •  World War II - Northbound Airmails by the British air route (Rob May)
 •  Bureau Naval 53 (Colin Spong)