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CONTENTS

Tchad: Postal Services in the Period of Military Pacification 1900-1920 (John Yeomans)
 The French Connection (John West)
 Monaco's Post Office Postal Stationery Wrappers (John Courtis)
 Shorter Items: 
•  Comoro Islands Stamps (Derek Atkins, John Mayne)
•  French and Flemish twin place names  (Alan Wood)
•  Une liaison dangereuse (Mick Bister)
•  PO Wrappers in the French Colonies (John Courtis)

CONTENTS

Post Office Postal Stationery Wrappers of the French Colonies  (John Courtis)

The Bogus Artwork of Louis-Oscar Roty and Luc-Olivier Merson (Ashley Lawrence)

Les Travailleurs who helped win World War I  (David Trapnell)

Rare Letters to the Marianas Islands and the Hoaxing of François Lanfrey (Peter Kelly)

Shorter Items:
 •  Spreading the net widely in French West Africa (Peter Kelly)
 •  18th century entire from Lyon to Paris  (Nigel Borlase-Hendry, Maurice Tyler)
 •  Further information on Baarle-Hertog/Baerle-Duc (Hans Smith, 'Napoleon')
 •  Airmail to Tanganyika (Mick Bister)
 •  The Great Stamp Robbery (Richard Broadhurst)
 •  Unknown Essays (Peter Maybury)
 •  Price-Hike in Algeria (Michael Round)

CONTENTS

Monkey Business: Bénin's 'Zin Kaka' Quasi-Definitives of December 2003 (Pt 1)  (Nicholas Pertwee)

André Le Nôtre and the Jardins de France Series (David Hogarth)

Cameroun – A Mute Cancel Identified as a Railroad Postmark  (Marty Bratzel)

Shorter Items:

 •  Mail from Ekododo, Gabon (John Mayne, Mick Bister)

 •  Further information on the 1938 airmail rate to Tanganyika  (Barbara Priddy)

 •  Recommandé d'Office (Peter Maybury}

 •  Disturbing Mail (Roy Reader)

 •  Oval V.P.M. Handstamp (Peter Maybury)

 •  Special Mailing – Cameroun to France November 1944 (Marty Bratzel)

 •  Stamps on lottery tickets (Richard Broadhurst)

 •  Réunion facsimiles (John Mayne, Mick Bister)

 •  Cheap postage, or what? (Michael Round)

 •  Les Travailleurs (Steve Ellis)

 •  Colonies, 1871? ('Napoleon')

CONTENTS

Open Philately (Héloïse Mitchell)

Valeurs-à-Recouvrer (Debt Collection Service) (Part 1) (Edwin Voerman)

Shorter Items:
 •  Current French  Polynesia Cancellations (John Ray)
 •  18th century entire Lyon-Paris  (Peter Maybury)
 •  Réunion facsimiles (Stephen Holder)
 •  Cheap postage, or what? (Stephen Holder)
 •  A letter dated 9 May 1793 (Héloïse Mitchell & Paul Watkins)
 •  French Guinea to France - but how? (John Mayne, Steve Ellis)
 •  Cameroun - A Mute Cancel Identified as a Railroad Postmark (Stephen Holder, David Williams)
 •  Colonies, 1871? (Stephen Holder)
 •  An Anomalous N'gila Cameroun Postmark (Marty Bratzel)

 •  Les Travailleurs (Stephen Holder)

CONTENTS

Monkey Business: Benin’s ‘Zin Kaka’ Quasi-Definitives of December 2003 (Part 2) (Nicholas Pertwee)
Valeurs-à-Recouvrer (Debt Collection Service) Part 2 (Edwin Voerman)
Foreign rates for the Debt Collection service (Chris Hitchen)
A Family Visits the Universal Exhibition of Paris in August 1900 (Peter Kelly)
An unusual articles d’argent letter of 1779 (Peter Maybury)
Early mail from French West Africa by German service (John Mayne)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
 •  Monkeys Rampant (Michael Round)
 •  A letter from Guadeloupe dated February 1818 (Héloïse Mitchell & Paul Watkins)
 •  New N’Gaoundéré Cameroun Datestamp (Marty Bratzel)

CONTENTS

La Retirada – Spanish Refugees in France 1939-1943, Part 1 (David Hogarth)
Military Mail from and to the Island of Réunion 1870-1899 (Peter Kelly)
A letter dated 15 June1820 (Héloïse Mitchell & Paul Watkins)
Cameroun National Union Stamp Varieties – Double Overprint and No Overprint (Marty Bratzel)
An Early ‘Registered’ Letter (Peter Maybury)
Mail from French West African Colonies collected by German Mail Boats (John Mayne) 

CONTENTS

The Coat-of-Arms Issues of France:1943-1966 (Mick Bister)
La Retirada - Spanish Refugees in France 1939-1942, Part Two (David Hogarth)
Business Papers, Samples and Additional Notes in France, 1876-1900
(with prior and post background information 1856-1910) (Peter Kelly)
A letter of 30 May 1815 (Héloïse Mitchell)

CONTENTS

List of Recently Published Articles (C W Spong and M S Tyler)

Paris Instructional Marks from 1837 to 1950, Part 1 (C J Hitchen)

Letter Tracking (D J Richardson)

Algeria: Post Offce Postal Stationery Wrappers (J K Courtis)

Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
 •  “In Tahiti I Brush My Teeth” (M Round)
 •  Mystery Solved – Non-Postal Cameroun Datestamp Identifed (M Collet & M P Bratzel)
 •  Edmund Dulac – Commemorative Miniature Sheet (M J Hopkinson, M L Bister)
 •  Nossi-Bé overprints (M P Singer, C W Spong, C S Holder)
 •  Two 18th Century Letters to and from the City of Algiers (J P Maybury)
 •  Spanish Flu in Djibouti (M Round)

CONTENTS

Paris Instructional Marks from 1837 to 1950, Part 2 (C J Hitchen)
Red Cross overprints of the French Indian Settlements: 1915-16 (J C West)
French Postal Routes via Paris 1838-1848 (M Rego)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  Cameroun Continued – A Mute Cancel Identifed as a Railroad Postmark – and Elsewhere (M P Bratzel)
•  Registered ‘Autres Objets’ (E Voerman, M L Bister)
•  Debt Collection Service (R Bentley, E Voerman)
•  Museum of Philatelic History launched (press release by Royal Philatelic Society London)

CONTENTS

The 25c Visiting Card Rate from 1 April 1920 to 15 July 1925 (M L Bister)
Avis de Réception 1876-1914 (P R A Kelly)
The 30 centimes orange Cameo Sower—a not inconsequential stamp (S J Luft)
Urgent Payments (Virements accélérés or chèques postaux accélérés) (E Voerman)