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CONTENTS

Obituary of Ernst Cohn (Stephen Holder)
Airmail Letter Rates from French Equatorial Africa to France 1930-45 (Bob Picirilli)
Use of the Handstruck "3" during the First Period of the Type Sage Issue 1876 to 1 May 1878 (Peter Kelly)
The 1 Franc Cécogramme Rate or A la Recherche du Tarif Perdu (Mick Bister)
France - The Red Cross, Part 3 (John West)
Essential Philatelic Literature (Mick Bister, Peter Maybury, Bill Mitchell, Alan Wood)
The National Archives (Colin Spong)
Shorter Items:
 •  Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (Robert Johnson, John Mayne, Colin Spong, John Yeomens)
 •  A Register of the 1920 Bisects of Dahomey (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Togo: The 1921 "Mandate" Issue - More Earliest Recorded Dates (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Togo in World War I - The French Occupation Issues (Earliest Dates of Use) (Jeremy Martin and Bill Mitchell)
 •  French India - A Problem Cover (John Yeomens)
 •  Benin - Lagos Vapeur Service (John Mayne)

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Albert Stiefel - a Name from History (David Hogarth)
Mail between France and La Réunion 1864-1900 - the Lignes "T", "V" and "U" of the Messageries Maritimes (Peter Kelly)
The Mauritania Post Office in Saint-Louis (Senegal) (Bill Mitchell and Laurence Lambert)
British Censorship Control of Communications during WWII - Belgian Congo, French Equatorial Africa and French Cameroon (Bob Maddocks)
France - Locally Made 2 Décimes Handstamps (Peter Maybury)
Obituary of Walter Parshall (Colin Spong)
The Vaguemestre (Roy Reader)
Shorter Items:
 •  Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (Colin Spong)
 •  French India Problem Cover (Ron Wood)
 •  Star Perfin on 1F50 Pétain (Godfrey Bowden)
 •  Use of the Handstruck "3" 1876 to 1 May 1878 - Corrigendum (Peter Kelly)
 •  French India Reply Card (David Taylor Smith)
 •  Morocco Protectorate Survivals of Poste Aérienne Cachet (Jim Moffat)
 •  Alsace Visiting Cards (Mick Bister)

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Obituary of Alan McKanna (Peter Kelly)
The 50c Jeanne d'Arc Stamp, Part I: The Marcel Marron Archive (Mick Bister)
Middle Congo - an Unrecorded Paquebot Cancel: Your Help, Please! (Bill Mitchell)
Too Many Commemorative Stamps in France? (Michael Round)
Re-use of the Boxed Registration Handstamp (Colin Spong)
Shorter Items:
 •  Mail from French Forces in Dahomey (John Mayne)
 •  Togo 1921 Issue (John Mayne)
 •  Algeria Victory Issue of 1943 (John Mayne)
 •  Star Perfin on 1F50 Pétain (Mick Bister)
 •  Alsace Visiting Cards (Roy Reader, John Lucaci, Erik Menne Larsen)
 •  Some Thoughts on the Future of Philately and Stamp Collecting (Mike James)
 •  French India Date Stamp Problem (Ron Wood)
 •  Use of the Handstruck "3" (Peter Maybury)
 •  Morocco Protectorate Survivals of Poste Aérienne Cachet (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Rates: France to Jersey 1936/7 (Philip Mackey)
 •  Benin - Lagos Mail Service (John Mayne)

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Obituary of Bernard Berkinshaw-Smith (Chris Hitchen and Peter Kelly)
World's First Airmail Postcards (Ernst Cohn)
The 50c Jeanne d'Arc Stamp, Part II: An 1892 Precursor (Mick Bister with Jean-Paul Fournier)
The Treatment of Insufficiently Paid Letters between Member Countries of the GPU and UPU 1875-1879 (Robert Abensur and Peter Kelly)
The Story of a Soul (Stephen Toynbee)
One of the Islands On the Air (Richard Wheatley)
A Tax Anomaly (Derek Richardson)
The 'ANDORRE' overprints (Mick Bister)
Shorter Items:
 •  Vapeur Mail Service in Senegal (John Mayne)
 •  Togo 1922 Issues (John Mayne)
 •  Jacobin Calendar (Anthony Milford Ward)
 •  An Air Cancel Handstamp of Saigon? (Ian McQueen)
 •  Rates: France to Jersey 1936/7 (Derek Richardson)
 •  Bibliography of Philatelic Literature (Colin Spong)
 •  Algeria Victory Issue of 1943 (Geoff Gethin)
 •  Middle Congo Paquebot Cancel (Robert Johnson)
 •  Re-use of the Boxed Registration Handstamp (Robert Johnson, Colin Spong)
 •  French PO in Shanghai (Malcolm Givans)
 •  Unrecorded Middle Congo Date Stamp (Robert Johnson)

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Guadeloupe Airmails (Tony Shepherd) 
Cécogrammes (Mick Bister)
French POs in China - 1903 Provisional Dues (John Barefoot)
Modern Post Offices in Mali and in French Polynesia (Bob Maddocks)
Mauritania - the Bogus "KRONFA" Cancel: A New Discovery (Bill Mitchell)
Carry on Searching (David Jennings-Bramly)
Shorter Items:
 •  French Postal Practice in a Former Colony - Chad (Jim Moffat)
 •  Bibliography of Philatelic Literature of French Colonies (Peter Kelly)
 •  The Dead Letter Office (Alan Wood)
 •  Islands On the Air (Bill Mitchell, Maurice Tyler)
 •  French PO in Shanghai (Bill Mitchell)
 •  Airmail Cancel of Saigon (David Taylor Smith, Ron Bentley)
 •  Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (John Yeomans)
 •  Île de France Catapult Mail (Paul Zatulove)
 •  British Cameroon Stamps (Rob May)
 •  The World's First Airmail Postcards (Alan Wood)
 •  Togo 1921 "Mandate" Issue - Update of Earliest Recorded Dates (John Mayne)

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French POW Camps in Kenya (Colin Spong)
Senegal - Another WWII Red Cross Postcard, and some Early Direct Airmail to the USA (Bill Mitchell)
The 3F Cathedral of Reims Stamp (David Jennings-Bramly)
A Philatelic Postcard (John Simmons)
Postal Sector 390 (Roy Reader)
Tariffs and Postal Regulations: Cochin-China Colonial Post - Saigon Office (Martial Boyer)
Shorter Items:
 •  Bora Bora Post Office (John Ray, Hilton Israelson)
 •  A Two Booklet Tale (John Simmons)
 •  Service Suspended Label on Cover to Vietnam (Robert Johnson)
 •  A Generous Dutchman? (Michael Round)
 •  Caisse d'Amortissement Issues of 1927-31 (Richard Broadhurst)
 •  French Post Office Regions 1933 (Robert Johnson)
 •  Re-use of the Boxed Registration Handstamp (Colin Spong)
 •  Artwork for 1971 Laos Issues (Mick Bister)

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A Postcard from the Belgian Congo and the Sudan to France (Robert Johnson & Richard Stock)
The Penalty Taxes of 1910 and 1920 - Part 1 (André Métayer)
French Airline Network 1928 (Robert Johnson)
SS Normandie (Ashley Lawrence)
Shorter Items:
 •  Dallay Colonial Catalogues (Colin Spong)
 •  Picture Postcard - "La barre prisonnière" (Bob Larg, Maurice Tyler)
 •  Togo Taxe Marks (John Mayne)
 •  Dahomey Cancels (John Mayne, Bill Mitchell)
 •  French India Cover (Ron Wood)
 •  Puzzling Lautier Type A1 Postmark Date and Zero Levée (Godfrey Bowden)
 •  Charity Label Paying Postage (Bob Paterson)

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Stamps meeting the Basic Internal Letter (LSI) rate 1849-1949 (Godfrey Bowden)
Senegal - the 1902 "Letter in Circle" Cachets: A New Explanation (Bill Mitchell)
Benin - Postal Use of Military Telegraph Date Stamps (Bill Mitchell)
The Penalty Taxes of 1910 and 1920 - Part 2 (André Métayer)
Postal Rate Changes of 1 October 2006 (Derek Richardson)
Shorter Items:
 •  Regions ... and More Regions (Michael Meadowcroft)
 •  Indo-China / Thailand Auction Results (Mike Roberts)
 •  Togo - the STATION PALIME Cancel (John Mayne)
 •  Belgian Postcard Query (David Plant)
 •  Après le Départ Marks used Overseas (John Mayne)
 •  An Odd Meter Franking (Richard Wheatley)
 •  Artwork for 1971 Laos Issues (David Taylor Smith, Maurice Tyler)

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The Post Offices of French West Africa, Part 4 - French Guinea (Bill Mitchell & Laurence Lambert)
Mail Order Manifestations (Bob Maddocks)
The Early Posts from Polynesia - Tales of Missionaries, Cannibals and a Patron of Gauguin! (Hilton Israelson)
Tariffs and Postal Regulations: Cochin-China Colonial Post, Saigon Office, with Erratum
Shorter Items:
 •  V in Circle on Indian Cover to Indo-China (David Taylor Smith)
 •  1905 Official Indo-China Cover (David Taylor Smith)
 •  Forged Cameroun Français Overprints (Dudley Cobb)
 •  Re-use of the Boxed Registration Handstamp (Colin Spong, Jack Blanc)
 •  Much Travelled Mail - Italy to Ivory Coast (John Mayne)
 •  Cameroun Taxe Marks (John Mayne)
 •  Printed Envelopes from Saigon (Ian McQueen)
 •  French Boycott: 1973 Courier Mail (Roger Allen)
 •  The French Franc Lives! (Geoff Gethin)
 •  The First Interzone Cards (Roy Reader)
 •  Forces Françaises Libération Training Camp Kenya (Colin Spong)
 •  ESPAÑA 2006 - Malaga 7-13 October 2006 (Lesley Marley)
 •  Jeu de Barres (Peter Kelly)
 •  French Indian Postal Stationery Query (David Taylor Smith)
 •  Dahomey - An Unrecorded Cotonou Cancel (Bill Mitchell)
 •  1925 Paris Exhibition Labels Overprinted for Strasbourg 1927 (Geoff Gethin)
 •  Censorship of WWII Covers from Senegal to Morocco (Barbara Priddy)
 •  French Stamp Issuing Policy (John Simmons)
 •  Phil@poste (Maurice Tyler)
 •  Victory of Samothrace (Peter Baker)

CONTENTS

The Postage Stamps of the French National Liberation Committee, Algiers, in WWII (Bob Maddocks)
The Post Offices of French West Africa, Part 4 - French Guinea (conclusion) (Bill Mitchell & Laurence Lambert)
French Airline Network 1928 - extract from booklet (Robert Johnson)
Shorter Items:
 •  Anglo-French Occupation of Togo (John Mayne)
 •  British Porte-Timbres (André Métayer, trs Maurice Tyler)
 •  Taxed Tunisian Postcard (Godfrey Bowden)
 •  French Training Camps in Kenya (Colin Spong)
 •  Red Star Mark on 35c Sage Stamp (Godfrey Bowden)
 •  French Sudan 1940 Airmail Stamps (Richard Wheatley)
 •  Marianne de Gandon 'à la bretelle' Variety (Godfrey Bowden)
 •  Cécogrammes in Cameroun (Marc Parren)
 •  A Philatelic Poem (Bob Maddocks)
 •  Jeu de Barres (John Simmons)
 •  Definition of 'figurines' (Maurice Tyler)
 •  Benin - Postal Use of Military Telegraph Date Stamps (Peter Kelly)
 •  The Ecological Counter Booklet (John Simmons)
 •  A Postcard from the Belgian Congo via French Congo and the Sudan to France (Peter Kelly)
 •  Unusual Tunisian Cancellation (David Taylor Smith)