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CONTENTS

Obituary - John Hammonds (Chris Hitchen)
Marianne de Muller Part 6b: the 20 franc issue (YT 1011B) – Booklet Printings and Postal Usage (Mick Bister)
There’s No Business Like Show Business – Connections on French Stamps - Part 7 (David Parmley)
•  Due to space constraints the full article on Josephine Baker is included here.
Precursors of the French postal card - Part 4: French postal cards issued by the German occupiers (Frans Jorissen)
The Suez Canal Stamp Forgeries by Saatjian -  Part 1: Introduction and the 5c Forgery (Paul Grigg)
Why I collect what I collect - People, Places and Incidents on miniature works of art (Jill Whitten)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  The 25F Marianne à la Nef Colour Proofs of 1959 (Shivshankar Nair / Mick Bister)
•  A Type Sage query Martin Taylor / David Parmley / Paul Watkins / Mick Bister)                  
•  ‘La Poste enfantine’ (Martin Taylor / Mick Bister)        
•  Cancellations on ‘Navigation and Commerce’ issues (Stan Fairchild / Peter Kelly)
•  The 1849 Notice (Martin Taylor / Mick Bister)
•  A helpful postmaster at Réunion (Peter Kelly)               
•  1949 Type Pasteur (Richard Broadhurst)   
•  Ebolowa - Another Resurrected Cameroun Datestamp (Marty Bratzel)
•  Geoff Gethin Award 2024
Reports of Meetings                 
•  48th Annual Philatelic Weekend, 7 - 9 March 2024 (David Parmley /  Peter Kelly)
•  Minutes of the Annual General Meeting, 8 March 2024 (David Parmley)
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler)
New-issue listings from Gibbons Stamp Monthly: April - July 2024 (Michael Round)
Books Noted (Maurice Tyler)
Bookshelf (Compiled and reviewed by Michael Round
•  La philatélie à Tahiti - Tome 2 1958 - 2008 by Christian Beslu
•  Timbres de Distributeurs, France,  Yvert & Tellier
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CONTENTS

Usage of the (1938 - 1941) - Part 1 (Edwin Voerman)
Série Sites et Monuments/Série touristique d’usage courant
Precursors of the French postal card - Part 5: The French balloon cards (Frans Jorissen)
Marianne de Muller Part 7a: the 25 franc issue (YT 1011C) - Sheet Printings, Coils and Booklets of 20 (Mick Bister)
There’s No Business Like...Show Business – Connections on French Stamps - Part 8 (David Parmley) •  Due to space constraints the full article on French Cinema Stars is included here.
Postal Mischief Levels 1 and 2 (Michael Round)
The Suez Canal Stamp Forgeries by Saatjian - Part 2: The 1c and 20c Forgeries (Paul Grigg)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  Se souvenir de la France paysanne (Mick Bister)
•  The Ligne de Saigon à Bangkok (Rory Morrisey)
•  New Caledonia Whimsy, 1901-style (Michael Round)
•  The 25F Colour Proofs of 1959 Marianne à la Nef (Shivshankar Nair / Mick Bister)
•  Cancellations on ‘Navigation and Commerce’ issues (Ed Grabowski)
•  Somali Coast Antics - postmarks not exempt (Michael Round)
•  Cameroun Ecole Supérieure des P&T and Timbres Fictif (Marty Bratzel)
•  Two highlights from the Winter Auction: 25 January 2025 (not illustrated in the Auction catalogue).
•  End of an era - A lifetime of Postage Stamps (a potted history) (Terry Garcia / David Parmley)
Bookshelf (Reviewed by Michael Round)
•  Madagascar, Philatélie Malagache: Tome 1 Les Affranchissements, by Jacques Desnos
Report of the Northern Meeting Group
New-issue listings from : Gibbons Stamp Monthly August December 2024 (Michael Round)
Books Noted (Maurice Tyler)
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler)
Index to 2024 (Jan Gane)
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