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Marianne de Muller Part 6b: the 20 franc issue (YT 1011B) Booklet Printings and Postal Usage (Mick Bister)
Obituary - John Hammonds (Chris Hitchen)
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)
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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•  French Territories - Modern Fine Used (Miles Cerny)
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– A France at Peace and a France ripe for development” Some perspectives on the Second Empire through Postal History Part 1: European diplomacy and the importance of railway (Roger Niven)
– Forbin Forgeries of the Merson Values for French Colonies (Miles Cerny)
– Albert Désiré Barre, 6 May 1818 - 29 December 1878 (Tony Howgrave-Graham FRPSL)
– Usage of the Série Sites et Monuments/Série touristique d’usage courant (1938 - 1941) - Part 2 (Edwin Voerman)
– Granet and Regents (Marden Blackledge) 
– Publicité Dubonnet (David E Huckett)
– Precursors of the French postal card - The French balloon cards - Part 5b: Balloon cards sent abroad (Frans Jorissen)           
– Marianne de Muller  Part 7b: the 25 franc issue (YT 1011C) Booklets of 8, Postal Stationery and Postal Usage (Mick Bister)                   
– There’s No Business Like Show Business – Connections on French Stamps - Part 9 (David Parmley)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  A Postcard from the Early Exploration Period of the Upper Volta Region of French West Africa in 1886 (Peter RA Kelly)
•  Ashley’s Letterbox (Mick Bister) 
•  The Story behind a Letter from Batavia to Reunion in 1867 (Peter RAKelly)
•  Western Australia – Paris: REFUSED mail (Malcolm Brown)
•  Somali Coast Antics (Mick Bister)  
•  Zoom Meeting Report 11 February 2025  
Regular Features
Bookshelf (Reviewed by Michael Round)
•  Yvert & Tellier ‘Timbres de France’ Catalogue 2025 (Reviewed by Richard Broadhurst)
•  Yvert & Tellier ‘Colonies Françaises et Bureaux Français à l’Étranger’ Catalogue 2025 (Reviewed by  
    Miles Cerny)                  
Books Noted (Maurice Tyler)
Society Notes
Report of the Northern Meeting Group
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler)
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CONTENTS

– Usage of the Série Sites et Monuments/Série touristique d’usage courant (1938 - 1941) - Part 3 (Edwin Voerman)
– “What is Postal History?”        
– Precursors of the French postal card Part 6: The dépêche-réponse cards (Frans Jorissen)
– Marianne de Muller  Part 8: the 15 franc and 20 franc Algérie issues (YT 329 and 349) (Mick Bister)    
– There’s No Business Like.Show Business – Connections on French Stamps - Part 10 (David Parmley) 
– Maxi 3,70€ Cérès 1938 – How to distinguish? (Miles Cerny and Richard Broadhurst) 
– Why I collect, and what I collect (Roger Niven) 
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers        
•  Spring fever at the Salon Philatélique de Printemps, 2025 (Ran van den Boom    
•  Algeria, a tempting offer (Michael Round) 
•  What’s in a date? (Roger Niven)          
•  The Paris Banlieue handstamp (David Huckett)
Reports of Meetings 
•  49th Annual weekend 6-8 March 2025 (David Parmley / Peter Kelly)        
•  Minutes of the Annual General Meeting of 7 March 2025  (Chris Hitchen)     
•  London Group Meeting of 21 May 2025 (Roger Niven) 
•  Wallis and Futuna (Michael Round) 
•  Northern Group Meeting of 12 July 2025 (John Morton)         
Bookshelf (Compiled by Michael Round) 
•  Yvert & Tellier/A.C.E.P.  ‘Entiers Postaux’ Catalogue 2025 (Reviewed by Michael Round) 
New-issue listings from Gibbons Stamp Monthly: April - July 2025 (Michael Round)     
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler) 
Society Notes
•  Appeals for Journal Manager / Journal Editor / Website Manager
Advertisement - The Postage and Revenue Meter Stamps of Cameroun by Marty Bratzel Jr. and Dr. Marc Parren 

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CONTENTS

– Usage of the Série Sites et Monuments/Série touristique d’usage courant (1938 - 1941) - Part 4 (Edwin Voerman)
–  Precursors of the French postal card Part 7: The cards of the relief organisations (Frans Jorissen)
– Marianne de Muller  Part 9: the New Franc issues (Mick Bister)
– New Postage Rates in France 2026 (Richard Broadhurst) 
– There’s No Business Like Show Business – Connections on French Stamps - Part 11 (David Parmley)
– Dr Delafon and the collecting bug in Guadeloupe and Martinique (Rodney Gent)
– Dubious Signatures and Fake Experts: A Collector’s Survival Guide (Vincent Beghin)
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers        
•  Mail between the Kingdom of Holland and France (David Huckett)
•  ‘La Poste du Bénin’ new post office meter stamps (Marc Parren)
•  France - Crypto-Timbre (Miles Cerny)
•  The Central African Empire (Michael Round)
•   France - Crypto-Timbre (Miles Cerny)
•   All Change!  - new France Postal Rates (Richard Broadhurst)
Reports of Meetings 
•  London Group Meeting 1 October 2025 (Roger Niven)
•  An Impromptu Coffee Spot (Roger Niven)
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler) 
Society Notes
•  Appeals for Journal Manager / Journal Editor / Website Manager
Advertisement
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-  Censorship in World War 1 by the Armée française d’Orient

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CONTENTS

– “A France at Peace and a France ripe for development” Some perspectives on the Second Empire through Postal History - Part 2: Foreign policy and transatlantic mail (Roger Niven)
– There’s No Business… Like Show Business – Connections on French Stamps - Part 12 (David Parmley 
– Senegal: Catalogue of newly introduced postmarks of the Société Nationale la Poste as from 2014
– A Brief Overview of Postal History in Senegal since Independence (Marc Parren)  
– Precursors of the French postal card Part 8: Continuation and conclusion (Frans Jorissen)
– The Life and Times of Dr Delafon (Mick Bister)
–  A Doctor Delafon Late Cover (Rodney Gent)            
–  Réunion and the Mauritius Government Colonial Packet Service - from Mauritius to Ceylon 1848-1856 - Together with  a study of part-payment of mails during the period (Peter R.A.Kelly)     
Shorter Items - including Questions and Answers
•  Cameroun – Specimen Overprints on London-Issue Stamps (Marty Bratzel)
• Spectacular Yaoundé Cameroun Postmark (Marty Bratzel)
• Usage of the Série Sites et Monuments/ Série touristique  (Edwin Voerman)
• Madagascar - 1942 Airmail variety (Miles Cerny)                               
• Cameroun – Censorship of Mail Outside the Postal System (Marty Bratzel)    
• Beyond the Book: the Senegal Baobab Officials of 1965-91 (Michael Round)                
• Gabon 1910 - 18 shades (Miles Cerny)     
• Sir Winston Churchill (Richard Broadhurst)          
• Guadeloupe 1884 (Miles Cerny)   
• The demise of the Yellow Postbox. Reprinted from The Times Newspapers
Bookshelf (Compiled by Michael Round)
• Yvert & Tellier ‘Timbres de France’ 2026 Catalogue (Reviewed by Richard Broadhurst)
• The Postage and Revenue Meter Stamps of Cameroun by Marty Bratzel Jr. and Dr. Marc Parren (Reviewed by Rob May FRPSL)
Reports of Meetings
• London Group Meeting 21 January 2026 (Roger Niven)
List of Recently Published Articles (Maurice Tyler)
New-issue listings from: Gibbons Stamp Monthly (GSM): August 2025 - February 2026 (Compiled by Michael Round
Society Notes
Obituary - David Bailey
The Geoff Gethin Award
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