Air Posts--Stamps, Services, Rates, Markings
Airmail service in 1940-42 Unoccupied Zone
France-Japanese airmail, 1870-1986
Nancy-Lunéville Flight of 1912
Rates to and from the Colonies, to 1945
Semi-Official stamps (1912)
Transporté Exceptionnellement markings

Algeria
Entrepôts
Postal markings

Alsace-Lorraine
Reason for manuscript cancels from Barr, 1871-72
Unusual German railway cancel on A-L stamp

Ancillary Markings
on returned mail from France

Awards and Honors [also see Some Show Reports]
Gough and Luft named to Académie de Philatélie
Graham receives Mobile P.O. Society literature award
Robbins receives M. Neiken Award

Balloon Post [see Siege of Paris]
Bicycle Mail
World War II

Biographical Data
Berner, Beatrice

Booklets and Booklet Stamps
end of the Sterners era
Offset cover from M. de Briat booklet
Sterners booklet cover, September 2000 issue
2,30 Marianne de Briat, without phosphor

Computer-vended Postage ("Framas")
caution regarding placing in mounts
new-design multicolored vignettes

Demonetization
effective in France in 2002
Petain stamps in Algeria and Corsica

Essays and Proofs
10F Port de La Rochelle

Etiquettes, Vignettes and Labels
Courrier des Marins/Seamen's Mail
Lettre suivie
Nancy-Lunéville 1912 air labels

Forgeries, Fakes, Bogus Items, Fantasies, Phantoms
Marianne de Bequet ο,45 perforated color trial
French Congo bisects (1900)
French Morocco, 1914-15 Red Cross surcharge
Liberté, double impression of green "A" stamp
id., faked offsets on 3,70 value
Monaco bisects
Petain issues bisects

Formules
American Expeditionary Force messages, WWII
Monaco, for telephone number changes

France: 20th Century Issues
Liberté (of Gandon): faked double impression of green "A"
id.: faked offsets on 3,70 value
Lined Sower: 50c value--varieties, overprints, flaws
Marianne de Bequet: notes on o,45 and o,80 values
Marianne de Luquet: l,oo with phosphor at left
Mouchon Issues--General
Petain issues bisects
10F Port de La Rochelle
25F Chenonceaux

Franchises: Civil and Official
"F" overprint lacks constant varieties
special label for packages to the military 1951-72

Franco-German War of 1870-71 [also see Siege of Paris]
Ambulance du Midi
Mail smuggling during Siege of Paris, facts and fiction

French Africa [also see individual Colonies]
Transporté Exceptionnellement airmail markings

French Colonies, Dependencies and Overseas Territories [also see individual Colonies]
French Congo: 1900 bisects
French Guiana: 1929 Postage Due issue, design for
Ivory Coast: 1911 usage of Senegal stamps
id., Parcel Post stamps
New Caledonia: new studies on early stamps and cancels [note on]
Reunion Post Offices
Tahiti: controversial late 19th Century Issues
Togo: "Mandate" issue of 1921
Unissued Vichy stamps for the Colonies

French Congo
Unnecessary 1900 bisects

French Guiana
Pictorial Postage Due issue of 1929, design for

French Morocco
Faked 1914-15 Red Cross surcharge

French Offices Abroad
Egypt, 1871-75, rates from

Indo-China
Society of Indo-China Philatelists website

Internet Trading
eBay: buying and selling hints

Ivory Coast
Parcel Post stamps
Provisional 1911 usage of Senegal stamps

Liberté (of Gandon) Design
Faked double impression of green "A" stamp
Faked offsets of 3,70 value

Machine Cancels [also see Postal Markings]
NEC machines, 1999-

Mail Services
Lettre suivie

Mail Theft
Reports of, in earlier years

Marianne de Bequet Issues
o,45 violet color trial, privately perforated
o,80 red without phosphor

Marianne de Briat Issue
two types of St. Pierre & Miquelon overprints
2,30 booklet stamp without phosphor

Marianne de Luquet Issue
1,oo value without phosphor band at left

Maritime Posts
Ship mail carried partly by air

Memorials and Obituaries
Berner, Beatrice
Brooks, Walter
Duston, Donald L.
La Ferté, Gonzague de
Van Dam, Theo
Varga, Alexandre

Meter Imprints
in euros only, from January 2001

Military Posts--20th Century [also see World Wars]
Morocco 1914: rare Safi date stamp

Military Posts (incl. Occupations)--Post-World War II
Military Postal Bureaus (BPMs) in Africa

Monaco
Bisected stamps are philatelic creations
Telephone-number-change formule

Morocco (French)
Earliest dates for Marrakech French POs
Safi military date stamp, 1914

Museums (Postal)
Brussels, closing of

Naval Markings
Correspondance de rade (manuscript marking)

New Caledonia
Bulletin du Cagou philatelic periodical
New studies on early stamps and cancels (note on)

Overprints and Surcharges
Faked French Morocco 1914-15 Red Cross surcharge
French franchise "F" lacks constant varieties
St. Pierre & Miquelon: two types on Marianne de Briat stamps
Tahiti controversial late-19th Century issues

Paris [also see Siege of]
Rectangular date stamp, January 2001

"Personalized" Stamp Labels
First French issue, on November 2000 souvenir sheet

Philatelic Exhibitions [also see Some Show Reports]
Postal markings, France

Phosphorescent Tagging
o,80 red Marianne de Bequet without phosphor bands
l,oo Marianne de Luquet with phosphor band at left

Pneumatic Post (Paris)
Current use for the tube system

Postage Due Stamps and Markings
Minimum Tax
19th Century military mail lacking sender's rank

Postal Rates and Tariffs
French Offices in Egypt, 1871-75
General Delivery (Poste Restante) fees
Military concessionary rates (19th Cent.) apply only if rank is stated
Special rates on packages to the military, 1951-72

Postal Markings [also see individual colonies, Military Posts, France-German War, etc.]
Algeria
Entrepôts (France and Algeria)
French BPMs in Africa (l990s)
French Philatelic Exhibitions
German RR cancel on Alsace-Lorraine stamp
More "Transporté Exceptionnellement" air service markings from French Africa
NEC machine cancels, 1999-
Paris rectangular date stamp, January 2001
Sage issues
Significance of different arrival dates on a cover

Postal Services
"Mailev@"
Lettre suivie

Postal Stationary
Monaco: Telephone-number-change formule

Protection of Philatelic Material
Computer-vended postage should not be kept in mounts

Railway Mail and Markings
Entrepôts
Entrepôts of Algeria

Réunion
Becomes two administrative entities in 2001
Post Offices during 1892-1980

Reviews of Books, Pamphlets and Catalogs
Bosc, " Catalogue Illustré des Marques Postales… d'Algérie (1749-1962)"
"Catalogue d l'Exposition… les plus rare du monde"
"Ceres 2000-2001 Catalogue. France"
Heiman, "Kriegsausgaben unter deutscher Besetaung 1940-1945"
Herendeen, "The Parcel Post Stamps of the Ivory Coast"
Kelly, "The Type Sage issue of France 1876-1900"
Marsanoux, "L'Ambulance du Midi"
Matsumoto, "L'Histoire de la Poste Aérienne Franco-Japonaise 1870-1986''

Sage Issues
Postmarks and postal history

St. Pierre et Miquelon
Two types of overprint on Marianne de Briat stamps

Siege of Paris [also see Franco-German War of 1870-71]
Balloon "Armée de Bretagne": revised data
Balloon misconceptions
Boule de Moulins from Belgium
Mail smuggling, facts and fiction
"Neptune" mail

Sower Issues
50c lined Sower, types and subtypes, varieties, overprints, flaws
30c cameo Sower. types and subtypes
35c cameo Sower, types and subtypes

Stamp Designs [also see Essays and Proofs]
French Guiana: 1929 Postage Due
Grand Prix for Philatelic Art, 2000
Mouchon Issues
10F Port de La Rochelle

Stamp Production
Late control marking, Banque de France printing

Suggestions to Authors writing for this Journal

Tahiti
Controversial late-19th Century issues

Togo
"Mandate" issue of 1921, current earliest dates

Types and Subtypes
Mouchon issues
St. Pierre & Miquelon ovpts. on Marianne de Briat stamps
50c lined Sowers
30c cameo Sowers
35c cameo Sowers
10F Port de La Rochelle

World War II
Airmail service in Unoccupied Zone
American Expeditionary Force messages
Bicycle mail
Opinions on validity of certain issues
"Philatelic" mail to German addresses
Unissued Vichy stamps for the Colonies

subject index for 2000

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