Number 290 August 2019

CONTENTS

Côte d’Ivoire SECAP meter stamps used at post offces since 1997 (M Parren)
French Mandates of Syria and Lebanon, Part 1 (A J Lawrence)
The Coiffes Régionales of the 18th Century issue (E Voerman)
New Postal Forgeries of Marianne Self-adhesive Stamps used on Nigerian-type Scam Letters (F P Katz)
From Vichy France to England via Lisbon, March-July 1941 (Ms B M K Priddy)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
 •  Marianne l’engagée Update (R N Broadhurst)
 •  170th Anniversary of the frst French postage stamp 20c Cérès, 1849-2019 (R N Broadhurst)
 •  La Réunion: the ‘2c’ surcharge of 7 December 1894 (S Fairchild, M Round)
 •  New Caledonia (M Round)
 •  Little and Large (M Round, M L Bister)
 •  Indochina stamp (M Blackledge, R Bentley)
 •  French Somali Coast (M Round)
 •  Mystery of the 1F Le Touquet airmail rate (M L Bister)