Contents 2007-
Most recent first
2010/2 (Summer)
40th year of publication, anniversary edition including souvenir miniature sheet
facsimile of very first issue
BPMA Essays for GB overprint for George V's death
Gulf covers
John Smith
King Edward VII Levant large blocks
Marius Wlodarczyk
Joint meeting with the Cyprus Study Circle
Tony Stanford
South African War labels - WWI
Otto Peetoom
Qatar parcel tag
John Smith
Printed parcel labels
John Gledhill
Wales political propaganda overprints
John Gledhill
Kuwait 5s T-marks
Bob Maushammer
From Mochudi to Mafeking
Brian Fenemore
The Political Agency handstamps used in the Gulf
Mike Phelan
Levant: Plating the 12pi Queen Victoria
Richard Malim
Morocco Agencies research: postage rates
David Stotter
Bahrain "missing ½"
Morocco Agencies Olympics double overprints
Geoff Chivers
Kuwait misplaced 2½a overprints
Geoff Chivers
Kuwait unauthorised "overprint"
Khalid Omaira
"Don't let the sun shine down on me" [fading]
Thomas Johansen
Tetuan covers
Barrie Cook
Use of Bahrain sevice air letter
Tony Stanford
Kuwait meter marks
Geoff Chivers
Bahrain OHMS airletters
Geoff Chivers
Bender Cassim in Somalia
Mike Sanders
Army Telegraphs: when is an overprint not an overprint?
Andrew Higson
MEF and Eritrea Postage dues
Mike Sanders
Eritrea MEF George VI cover
Underprint on 1866 cover to Constantinople
Alexios Papadopoulos
Zululand (forgery) used in Constantinople
Andy Wilde
King Edward VII 1½d registration sheet of Morocco Agencies
15 centimos and related discoveriesMarius Wlodarczyk
BMA Somalia, the Express service
Mike Sanders
Bechuanaland Queen Victoria control blocks
2010/1 (Spring)
This edition was a "Gulf special"
Kuwait Scout Jamboree, 1957
John Gledhill
UPU specimens on overprinted GB stationery
James Bendon
MEF Christmas airletters
John Gledhill
Kuwait, overprint errors and forgeries
Alan Tregurtha
BPA Eastern Arabia, SG 58a ½a on 1½d St Edward's crown
Mike Osborne
The Political Agency handstamps used in the Gulf
Mike Phelan
Kuwait Meter Post franking machines
John Davis
Yet more new QE cylinders
Mike Osborne
One-off partial overprints
Kuwait misplaced overprint
John Gledhill
Nine 5-s are [font types]
John Gledhill
British Postal Superintendant airletters
Tony Stanford
Airmail rate reduction from the Gulf in 1959
John Gledhill
Bahrain Olympic 2½ annas double overprint
Thomas Johansen
British Postal Agencies 1s Olympics double overprint
John Gledhill
The De La Rue printing of the Baharain 10s castle
John Smith,
Tony Stanford
British Forces mail in the Persian Gulf
Alan Tregurtha
King George 6 R2 types
John Gledhill
Oil Rivers 1893 size H2 registration envelopes
Peter Hørlyck
MEF parcel post cancellation
John Davies
Qatar "Friendship exchange" illustrated covers
Tony Stanford
Bogus Bahrain overprint
John Gledhill
Kuwait 40np on 6d "second colour"
Tony Stanford
Kuwait 40np on 6d postscript
Mike Osborne,
John Gledhill
Trucial States "essays" confirmed a bogus
John Gledhill
The Trucial States overprints revisited
Tony Stanford
Gulf fonts
John Gledhill
The British Post Offices in Kuwait
Tony Stanford
India to England by the Gulf route, 1836-1838
Major AE Hopkins
Bahrain double overprint
John Gledhill
Bahrain missing fraction
2009/4 (Winter)
| Bechuanaland and Zululand postcards | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Levant King Edward VII ½d A11 control | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Morocco Agencies, Tangier George VI registration sheet | John Gledhill |
| Ghost-busters: Tangier George V registration sheet correction | John Gledhill |
| Eritrea station list | Mike Sanders |
| BMA Tripolitania postage due missing stops | Mike Sanders |
| Morocco Agencies "Centimes/Centimos" error | Brian Lippard, Geoff Chivers |
| Post Office using up defective/obsolete stock | John Gledhill |
| Censored MEF Christmas wishes, 1944 and 1945 | John Gledhill |
| Grosvenor's "Aurelius" collection auction | Tony Stanford |
| Ireland overprint essays | John Gledhill |
| Ireland revenues, 1922 | John Gledhill |
| Mogadishu post offices | Mike Sanders |
| Niger Coast 1894 registration envelopes types | Peter Hørlyck |
| Channel Island swastika update, and local overprint | John Gledhill |
| GB registered envelope overprinted "Admiralty Official" | John Gledhill |
| Morocco Agencies 3 Franc seahorse "nibbled 3" | Arthur Weston |
| George VI MEF arms issue T-guide marks | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Another new QE Tangier cylinder | Mike Osborne |
| Morocco Agencies, George V 10d block cypher | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| 1935 Morocco Agencies Silver Jubilee | Harvey Russell |
| Morocco Agencies "beard" flaw | John Gledhill |
| Palestine puzzle and overprinted GB revenue on document | John Gledhill |
| The George VI Victory issue 3d overprinted "Tangier" | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Consular Services, dollars and rupees | John Gledhill |
| Army Official pane with major misplaced overprint | David Milsted |
| Happy Christmas, overprinted 1935-style | John Gledhill |
| Tangier Charity TB Christmas seals | Tony Stanford |
2009/3 (Autumn)
This issue gave special emphasis to "Levant" items
| Salonica Christmas card | Alexios Papadopoulos |
| Levant Queen Victoria 40 Paras double overprints | |
| "Missing 1" in 1 Piastre Edward 7 | John Gledhill |
| 40th anniversary of The Overprinter" | Mike Sanders |
| Levant: Salonica forged overprints - never trust anything | John Gledhill, Tony Stanford |
| Levant Sales, 1907-1914 | John Gledhill |
| 1 piastre provisionals, auction items | |
| British PO in Constantinople, Madame Joseph forgeries | John Darnell |
| British Levant King Edward VII postcard with forged overprint | Tony Stanford |
| First use of the size G registered envelope overprinted 1 Piastre | Andy Hawthorn |
| Edward VII double overprints | |
| Levant 40 paras forged overprinted envelopes | Tony Stanford, John Darnell |
| "Private" 40 paras overprint on 2½d Queen Victoria envelope | Geoff Chivers |
| Where exactly is "British Levant"? | John Gledhill |
| Early mail of the BPO Smyrna 1872-76 | Alexios Papadopoulos |
| The Constantinople post office | Tony Stanford |
| "30 PARAS" error on 5d Jubilee | John Gledhill |
| A Constantinope cover to Larnaca returned to sender | Tony Stanford |
| A card from Smyrna to the Falklands | Tony Stanford |
| Constantinope K66 due marks | John Darnell, Tony Stanford |
| Perfined British Levant overprinted stamps | Tony Stanford |
| 1893 provisional issue | Susan McEwen |
| Some notes on the Levant overprints in use in 1912 | Andy Hawthorn |
| British Levant recent discoveries | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| International Express Service Constantinope | Andy Hawthorn |
| Stamp usage in British Levant: 1911 through 1914 | Andy Hawthorn |
| The abrogation of the capitulations | John Gledhill |
| Levant registered envelopes size F and G | John Gledhill |
2009/2 (Summer)
| Morocco Day pictures | |
| Army Official ½d pair on cover | David Milsted |
| Nauru De La Rue double overprint, one albino | John Darnell |
| British Consular Service stamps used in Niger Coast Protectorate | Tony Stanford |
| Oil Rivers / Niger Coast postal stationey cards from PO personnel | Andy Wilde |
| Gold Coast telegrams | John Gledhill |
| British Bechuanaland "Portectorate" inverted | Brian Hurst |
| Niger Coast 1894 siez F registration envelope variations | John Gledhill |
| Morocco - British postal services | Solly Laredo |
| Morocco Agencies FDC near misses | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Those strange "overprints" [paquebot markings] | John Gledhill |
| Protective overprints from charities | John Gledhill |
| Bechuanaland gems, from Philatex February 2009 | Brian Hurst |
| Bechuanaland new discovery [wmk inverted control] | Brian Hurst |
| Nauru, Madame Joseph forged cancellations | John Darnell |
| Australia, CA etc [perfins] | Andy Hawthorne |
| Zululand, commercially used and bogus overprint | John Gledhill |
| Tristan da Cunha, overprints 1929 | John Gledhill |
| Local posts in Morocco, 1892-1900 | Solly Laredo |
| George V Kuwait | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Kuwait T-marks | Bob Maushammer |
| Oil Rivers registration envelope, with modified insurance | Tony Stanford |
| Kuwait short bars | Michael Sargeant, John Gledhill |
| Military Telegraphs, provisional overprints | John Gledhill |
| Dog licence overprints from Ireland and Northern Ireland | John Gledhill |
| Registered envelopes from Bechuanaland, Gold Coast, Tangier |
2009/1 (Spring)
"Morocco Day" special, with many "fillers" not listed below
| Morocco 30 centimes registration envelope | David Stotter |
| Summary of frames to be displayed at RPSL | exhibitors |
| Map of Morocco Agencies post offices | Chris Hawthorn |
| Morocco Agencies overprinted GB postal order | (member) |
| Tangier reply coupons | John Gledhill & member |
| George V photogravure sizes | John Gledhill |
| Forged cancellation on Abdication cover | Tony Stanford |
| Misplaced "AGENCIES" on Silver Jubilee | Geoff Chivers, John Gledhill |
| Morocco George V registered envelopes types | John Gledhill |
| Olympics 1s double overprint | John Gledhill |
| Spanish currency 10c centenary types | John Gledhill |
| Tangier airmail cover | Peter Taberner |
| To Casablanca by favour of the bag | Tony Stanford |
| Misplaced silver wedding overprint | |
| Morocco Agencies quantities sold from BPM archive | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| South American Air Service | Tony Stanford |
2008/4 (Winter)
| Unified issue essays | John Gledhill, Tony Stanford |
| Gulf postal rates,query | John Gledhill |
| More Levant perfins | John Gledhill |
| Levant, official notes about forged overprints | Andy Hawthorn |
| Bechuanaland wmk inverted control block | Brian Hurst |
| Eritrea philatelic exhibition | Mike Sanders |
| Doha exhbition | Francis Kiddle |
| Tangier wilding forgery | John Gledhill |
| Das Island | Tony Stanford |
| Kuwait short bars variety on £1 Silver Wedding | Francis Kiddle |
| CA overprint | John Gledhill |
| Christmas greetings from Asmara | Mike Sanders |
| Revenue overprinted for Solomon Islands | John Gledhill |
| Crete Herakleion essays | Andy Hawthorn, John Gledhill |
2008/3 (Autumn)
| Tangier cover, aerial photo of Tangier | John Smith |
| Some first day of issue dates | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Postal agencies in the Dodecanese | Martin Hickman |
| Perfinned British Levant overprints | Tony Stanford |
| Centenary issue covers | John Davies |
| Another cover from Tetuan | Ivan Holliday |
| The first Abu Dhabi post office | Tony Stanford |
| Jubilee notes | Andy Wilde |
| Southern Rhodesia postage dues first day cover | Tony Stanford |
| Controller of Civil Posts, Eritrea | Mike Sanders |
| 1935 Silver Jubilee | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Forged Tangier postmark | Geoff Chivers |
| Zeppelin and a plane crash flight | John Smith |
2008/2 (Summer)
| Nordavia coach | Mike Sanders |
| Morocco A & B handstamps | Brian Fenemore |
| Fez Airmails again | Ronald Watkins |
| Moroccan Edward VII and George V cancels | John Smith |
| Levant 40 paras provisional of 1893 | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| MEF sliced M variety | Derek Jefcoate |
| New Tangier cancel | David Stotter |
| Cover from RAF SADR | Philip Kaye |
| Morocco forged postmark | Ron Peters |
| Cover from Tetuan | Bob Deakin |
| Registered / insurance mail | Martin Hickman |
| Constantinople 6d registration fee | Alexios Papadopoulos |
| British Bechuanaland ½d firstr issue | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Registration sheets at the BPM | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Levant correspondence discoveries at the BPM | Marius Wlodarczyk |
2008/1 (Spring)
| Tangier handstamp | Geoff Chivers |
| The ½d Levant of 1911 | John Davies |
| Maddelina, Cyrenaica | John Davies |
| GPO Archive research | David Stotter |
| Q Victoria issues overprinted | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Edward VII Gold Coast telegraph forms | Jeremy Martin |
| Civilan registered mail, Constantinople I | Chris Grimshaw |
| Cyrenaica cover | Brian Fenemore |
| British centenary cover | Keith Lloyd |
| ½d vermilion | Brian Hurst |
| Q Victoria Jubilee perforations | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Eritrea currency rates | John Davies |
| Q Victoria plate varieties | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Three Tangier covers | John Smith |
2007/4 (Christmas)
| Queen Victoria ½d | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Board of Trade journal | Brian Bleurran |
| Oil Rivers | Tony Simmonds |
| More George V overprint files | Bryan Kearsley |
| 2/6d arms overprinted MEF | John Davies |
| Blue airmail stickers | Brian Doherty |
| George VI arms T-guides | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Gold Coast overprinted Telegraph forms | Alan Huggins |
| BOFIC postage dues, missing stops | Mike Sanders |
| Reopening of BPO Smyrna | Tony Stanford |
| Morocco puzzle | Ivan Holliday |
| Edward VII 1d postal stationery cards | Tony Stanford |
| George VI overprinted airletter forms in the Falkland Is | WP Vevers |
| Jubilee notes | Andy Wilde |
2007/3 (Autumn)
| Groves & Lindley covers | John Smith |
| BA Eritrea telegrams | Derek Jefcoate |
| Morocco 1930s overprints | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Eritrea list of charges leaflet | Mike Sanders |
| Bechuanaland ½d vermilion | Brian Hurst |
| BOFIC philatelic cover | John Davies |
| The Stamp Lover | Mike Sanders |
| Morocco Agencies issue dates | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Levant George V Seahorses | Bryan Kearsley |
| CA Overprints | David Kaiserman |
| British Levant Harrison printings | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Levant insured mail | Alexios Papadopoulos |
| Morocco Agencies overprint varieties | Alan Tregurtha |
| Tangier postmark | John Smith |
2007/2 (Summer)
| Agedabia MEF cover | Brian Fenemore |
| Torquay overprints | Tony Stanford |
| Levant 40 paras double surcharge | Derek Jefcoate |
| Bechuanaland overprint varieties | Tony Stanford |
| Levant Edward VII large blocks | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Levant Edward VII 2d revised plating | Andy Hawthorn |
| Edward VII 4d overprinted | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Tristan da Cunha | Harvey Russell |
| Edward VII 1s overprints & shades | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| A cryptic address (BM/HTOM) | Jon Perrot |
| Closure of Constantinople post office | Andy Hawthorn |
| GBOS forum | John Gledhill |
| Southern Rhodesia trial overprint British South Africa | Tony Stanford |
| Levant military mail | Martin Hickman |
| BOFIC cover | John Davies |
| Morocco missing serif to "1" of "15" | John Smith |
2007/1 (Spring)
| "By Sea" cover | Andy Hawthorn |
| Jubilee notes | Andy Wilde |
| "CA" overprint | Jon Perrot |
| Post-war Levant | Chris Grimshaw |
| Eritrea British administration | Brian Fenemore |
| British Stamps in Levant | Michael Varin |
| Sir Gawain Baillie collection | Andy Hawthorne |
| Dodecanese Islands | Mike Sanders |
| George VI Arms T-guide | Marius Wlodarczyk |
| Groves & Lindley, Levant | Andy Hawthorne |
| Yet another Hawkins cover | Tony Simmonds |
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