Number 309 December 2025

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
- 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