Number 303 December 2023

Obituary - Ashley Lawrence (Mick Bister)
Obituary - Godfrey Bowden (Chris Hitchen)
Tombouctou and the Niger Bend (Peter R A Kelly)
The adoption of stamp vending machines in France - Part 2: Identification of coil stamps and postal usage (Jean-Luc Raffel) 
Precursors of the French postal card - Part 2 (Frans Jorissen)
There’s No Business Like Show Business – Connections on French Stamps - Part 5 (David Parmley)
Bank Balance Request Service (Notification d’avoir à une date déterminée) (Edwin Voerman)        
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  ‘POSTELEC’ 1985 (Paul Watkins)                                                                
•  Epic of Vimy – a Canadian Pilgrimage (Don Hedger)
•  The Post Box and the Postman (Mick Bister)
•  The Gouverneur-Général Ballay Issue of French West Africa 1906/7 - An Illustrated Study of the 5F Forgery (Simon Binsted)
•  Postcards from Metz; fakes, forgeries or fantasies? (Mick Bister)
Reports of Meetings
•  Joint Meeting of WASC & F&CPS (Paul Redhead)
•  Northern Group - 14 October 2023 (Steve Ellis)
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler)
Bookshelf
•  Courriers de la Marine Française durant la seconde guerre mondiale racontés par les Entiers postaux. By Philippe Pignon and Éric Panozzo (Reviewed by Chris Hitchen)
Index to Volume 73