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CONTENTS
Usage of the (1938 - 1941) - Part 1 (Edwin Voerman)Série Sites et Monuments/Série touristique d’usage courantPrecursors 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)Advertisement for• EUROPHILEX 2025• French Territories - Modern Fine Used (Miles Cerny)• AVA Auctions Limited, Hong Kong
– 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 FeaturesBookshelf (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)Advertisement for• EUROPHILEX 2025
– 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 ManagerAdvertisement - The Postage and Revenue Meter Stamps of Cameroun by Marty Bratzel Jr. and Dr. Marc Parren
– 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 ManagerAdvertisement - The Postage and Revenue Meter Stamps of Cameroun by Marty Bratzel Jr. and Dr. Marc Parren- Censorship in World War 1 by the Armée française d’Orient
– “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 NewspapersBookshelf (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 RoundSociety NotesObituary - David BaileyThe Geoff Gethin AwardAdvertisement - Journals & Bulletins Sale
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