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Recipient of the 2007 Gilbert Award as the best English-language publication about the philately of France and Colonies. This definitive publication covers all aspects of the postal tariffs of Cameroun under French administration. Collectors of France and of other territories previously under French administration will also find information useful to their area of interest.
* Introduction and Background
* Detailed tariff tables for each class of mail and service – Domestic Tariffs within Cameroun, to France, and within the French Community – International Tariffs – Air Mail – Other Services, including declared value, money orders, debt collection, C.O.D., postal orders, reply coupons, and parcel post
* Profusely illustrated
* Fully referenced
* Plus searchable CD Appendix - .pdf format - 500+ pages of detailed tariff documentation, reproducing the orders and decrees as originally published in the Journal officiel du Cameroun.
vi + 215 pages + searchable CD

More than ten years in preparation, this publication:
- Thoroughly researches and documents the postmarks and postal history of Cameroun 1960 to date.
- Complements earlier publications about the country under the prior German, British, and French administrations.
- Draws upon all relevant published literature.
- Builds upon extensive information obtained through first-hand visits to, and discussions with postal officials in Cameroun.
- Lists each post office in Cameroun, taking into account name and spelling changes and, to the extent possible, giving the date of opening for each.
- Clearly and accurately illustrates 2,000+ different postmarks and gives the recorded earliest and latest dates of use for each.
- Includes 13 detailed maps showing the location of each post office in Cameroun and connecting postal routes.
- Color photos depict approximately 100 post offices, postal personnel, and postal operations.
- Color illustrations of numerous envelopes, postal forms, and documents representative of… Read More

A complete listing of all the post offices and postal agencies in the British Cameroons, their classification and dates of opening and closure; illustrations of almost 200 postmarks and their dates of use; discussion of internal mail routes, maritime transport of mail to and from the Cameroons, air mail services, postal censorship during World War II, registration markings, postage due markings and stamps, other postal and free-frank markings; postage stamps and stationery for the Cameroons; two location maps, numerous illustrations; fully referenced. Note - A companion Supplement was published in 2007.viii + 136 pages

This detailed Supplement is designed as a companion volume to the authors' original book about the British Cameroons of the same title, published in 1994. The authors have conveniently compiled and consolidated a wealth of published and unpublished information that has since come to light.
* New postmarks and further information about previously reported postmarks
* Updated summary of observed dates of use for all postmarks used in the Cameroons
* Additional information about the opening of post offices and postal agencies, including initial organization of post offices and mail runner services in 1916
* Postage stamps and postal stationery
* Maritime mail transport and air mail services to / from the Cameroons
* National Socialist sympathies prior to World War II, internment of German nationals during the war, and postal censorship
* Postal services and instructional markings, registration, posted out of course, postage due, insufficiently prepaid, too late, express, postmaster handstamp and… Read More