Number 301 April 2023

CONTENTS

Underpayments on foreign mail from France after 1849 (Chris Hitchen)                  
The 1944 Liberation stamps of Montreuil-Bellay Part 2: The ‘Département’ RF Overprint in black (Mick Bister)                       
The precursor postcards of France 1873 -1878 Part 2 (Peter RA Kelly)      
Marianne de Muller Part 4: the 12 franc issue (YT 1010) (Mick Bister)      
There’s no business like…Show Business - Connections on French stamps Part 3 (David Parmley)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers                                            
•  Meyo-Centre and Bipindi, Cameroun – Mail from un établissement de distributeur postal (Marty Bratzel)
•  The Birth of the Precursor Cards of 1873 (Peter RA Kelly)               
•  WW II French POW mail routed via Britain - The discovery of France to Germany correspondence (Paul Watkins) 
•  The 1943 Paris Airmail Exhibition - A request for information (Roy Reader)            
•  Marianne l’Effacée! Part 2 (Richard Broadhurst)
New-issue listings from Stanley Gibbons: December 2022 March 2023 (Michael Round)
Bookshelf (Michael Round)                        
•  L’émission “Faidherbe-Palmiers-Ballay”, La Poste Pneumatique de Paris,
•  Le Bulletin de la Philatélie et de la Numismatique au Maroc, Stamps of French India          
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler)
Obituary - John Parmenter (Mick Bister)