English Index to articles appearing in ‘Les Congolatres’

 All articles are in French unless otherwise stated, many of them however adding an English-language summary.

CONGO FREE STATE, 1894-1908

 

No 1 – Mols 1894: the unissued 5c blue and 10c red-brown

No 2 – ‘Ville de Bruges’, shipwrecked – 15^th April 1908

No 14 – The Postal Stationery of Congo Independent State, Part 1

No 14 – The Postal Stationery of Congo Independent State, Part 2

No 19 – Postal Stationery, Stibbe no 3

No 21 – Frontier mail

No 10 – SS Wall, Naval Unit of the Congo Independent State

No 16 – Forwarded mail with additional franking (Eng/Fr)

No 10 – Mols picture postcards, rates and frankings, Part 1

No 16 – Mols picture postcards, rates and frankings, Part 2

No 23 – Mols picture postcards, rates and frankings, Part 3

No 2 – Lieutenant Hutereau takes part in the Méridi Zone expedition

No 34 – The Haut-Oubangui labels

No 29 – Study of the 40c Mols

No 33 – Study of the 1F Mols

No 38 - Pre Lado and Lado's enclave (1889-1910)

No 41 - Reprints on Postal Stationeries

No 45 - Telegraphic cancellations on stamps and mails

No 50 - 25c Mols regraved frame

No 50 - Registered mails from Boma 1895-1923

No 50 - Mail from Roget to Captain Coquilhat

No 50 - Popocabacca - Tumbu Mani - Tumba Mani

No 51 - Frontier mails via Congo Free State

No 57 - Stamps signed LADO

No 58 - Mails taxed in Congo - Part I

No 59 - Mails taxed in Congo - Part II

No 59 - Nile route closed on a stamp LADO

 

WW1 – 1914/1918 and German East Africa

Belgian Occupation

 

No 3 – The KIGOMA post office (in Dutch)

No 12 – [engagements] with German East Africa on the Eastern Frontier and on Lake Tanganyika

No 5 – Belgian forces in Uganda, 1916

No 12 – Belgian military post during the German East Africa campaign, 1915-1918

No 12 - The German East Africa campaign – Paul Greindl, censor

No 41 - EAAOB - defensive period Aug 1914 / April 1916

No 45 - Sudan Censorship on Congo Mails WW1

 

WW2 - 1939/1945

 

No 4 – the Van Veen/Cassart correspondence through the Second World War

No 9 – The Belgium-Lisbon undercover legation

No 18 – The Belgian Congo Public Force Expeditionary Corps in Nigeria

No 2 – The origin of the ‘Spitfire’ issue

No 36 - Force Publique - North East Troops & Abyssinia Campaign 1940-41

No 40 - Délégation apostolique de Léopoldville - Service Renseignement aux familles

No 44 - Q/R - censor WW2 of Belgian Congo

No 45 - Postal service from or to Belgian Congo

No 46 - Belgian Campaign Hospial - 10th (BC)CCS

No 46 - Sudan censorship on Congo mails WW2

No 48 - Gold Coast censorship on Congo mails WW2

No 50 - 100 Fr Plams issue

No 50 - Nigerian censorship on Congo mails WW2

No 52 - Egyptian censorship on Congo mails WW2

No 53 - Expeditionary Corps of FP in Middle East

No 54 - South African censorship on Congo mails WW2

No 55 - South Rhodesian censorship on Congo Mails WW2

No 58 - North Rhodesian censorship on Congo mails WW2

 

CONGO 1909-1938

 

No 24 – Special number: the 1909 ‘CONGO BELGE’ Brussels handstamps

No 27 – Brussels overprints – readers’ letters – the Princes

No 30 – Postal relations between Belgian Congo and Great Britain

No 31 – Belgian Congo Minerals (Eng/Fr)

No 43 - Gatti missions in Belgian Congo

No 44 - A short study of under-franked mail from Belgian Congo to Switzerland 

 

CONGO 1945-1960

 

No 2 – Use of the Palms issue as postage dues

No 3 – Use of the Palms issue as postage dues: Readers’ Letters

No 2 – Stamp shortage and usage of PORT PAYE cachets

No 3 - Stamp shortage and usage of PORT PAYE cachets, Readers’ Letters

No 8 – COB No 296, the Matadi-Leopoldville Railway 50^th Anniversary commemorative

No 4 – the genesis of the Protected Animals series

No 4 – Advice of Embarkation

No 5 – Preferential rates to the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg

No 16 – International Postal Mandates for Congo or Burundi

No 44 - Olympic Games issue of Rome - 1960

No 50 - 50c Flowers - all use stamp

No 50 - Independence acts - postal perturbations Civil and militaire

No 60 - Postoffices of Ruanda-Urundi

No 61 - Red meter marks Timbrographe

 

CONGO RAILWAYS

 

No 3 -  Inauguration of the Matadi-Leopoldville railway, 1898: commemorative labels

No 7 – The Vicicongos [Society concerned with railways in and near the Congo]

No 11 – The BCK parcel post (BCK = Bas-Congo au Katanga)

No 13 – The CFL parcel post (CFL = Compagnie des Chemins de Fer du Congo supérieur aux grands Lacs africains)

No 17 – Railways to Mayumbe and Kivu

No 19 – Question and answer: BCK Sofumwango

No 20 – the Matadi-Leopoldville railway

No 44 - Railways VICICONGO CVC

No 50 - addings to Herreweghe studies

 

MARITIME MAIL

 

No 1 – PAQUEBOT port cachets

No 33 – Ocean Letter

No 26 – The Compagnie Maritime Belge, historical background

No 26 – The ALBERTVILLE packet-boat

No 27 – The ALEX VAN OPSTAL packet-boat

No 35 - The ARMAND GRISAR packet-boat

No 37 - The ANVERSVILLE packet-boat

No 43 - The BAUDOUINVILLE packet-boat

No 47 - TNA KAMINA

No 48 - The BRUXELLESVILLE packet-boat

No 59 - The BAUDOUINVILLE paket-boat - Midden trip

 

AIRMAIL

 

No 1 – the Thieffry flight, Belgium to Congo

No 27 – Was it really quicker by air?

No 34 – Angola mail in transit via airmail within the Belgian Congo, 1928-1935

No 49 - FAM 22 carrying The route

No 50 - Aeroclub of Katanga

No 50 - Belgium opens Congo

No 50 - the so-called re-use of FAM 22 services

No 54 - Airmails routes from Congo WW2

 

 Postal Marks and Labels

 

No 42 – the sealing labels

No 46 - UTILISER L'AVION

No 49 - DECEDE

No 50 - SURTAXE AERIENNE INSUFFISANTE

 

CONGO, post independence / CONGO REPUBLIC (RDC) / BURUNDI / RWANDA / ZAIRE

 

No 8 – Memories of the 1960s in the Congo: local impressions

No 22 – Belgian refugees fleeing the events in Congo after independence, 30^th June 1960

No 9 – Burundi 1965, the Gold Coin stamps

No 35 - Zaire - the hyper-inflation years

No 39 - Zaire 1989/2000 -  the hyper-inflation

No 50 - Zaire - Airplane History issue

 

KATANGA FREE STATE

 

No 22 – The Katangese Secession: historical background

No 22 – Mail from Katanga refugees assembled at Kamina base

No 10 – Genesis of the ‘Etat du Katanga’ series

No 23 – 11 days under the Congo Republic before 11^th July 1960

No 23 – Congo Republic franking before 12^th Sept 1960

No 23 – Belgian Congo franking before 12^th Sept 1960

No 23 – Mixed Belgian Congo/Congo Republic franking before 12^th Sept 1960

No 25 – Katanga overprints and surcharges, Part 1

No 26 – Katanga overprints and surcharges, Part 2

No 27 – Katanga overprints and surcharges, Part 3

No 23 – Postal rates

No 40 - Forged stamp of Katanga

No 37 - definitive issue - Arts Katanga

No 48 - ONUC mails 1960-64 (part 1)

No 49 - ONUC mails 1960-64 (part 2)

No 50 - curiosities on mails

No 55 - Intermational Fair of Elisabethville issue

No 55 - Red Cross issue

No 55 - Air Katanga issue

No 55 - Katangese Gendarmerie issue

No 56 - Overprinted "Independence" issue - Postal History

 

CONGO-RELATED ISSUES OF BELGIUM

 

No 6 – the Marchard ‘Baudouin’ issue

No 25 – the ‘Gand Montenez’ issue

No 25 – the ‘Gand Montenez’ issue

No 28 – the Export 1948 issue

No 37 - DC4 Skymaster 1946 issue

 

FORGED STAMPS, SURCHARGES AND POSTMARKS

 

No 27 – forgeries of the Leopold II issue of 1886

No 9 – some Congo forgeries

No 32 – the known forgeries of the 1^st and 2^nd issues of the Congo Free State

No 39 - Study of forgeries of the 1st issue - part II

No 44 - Mols 10c blue - forged inverted center

No 50 - forged overprint 30c on Mols 10c carmine 1915 issue

No 51 - Study of forgeries of the 2nd issue (1887)

 

POSTAL SATIONERIES

 

No 52 – Stibbe No 1 and No 2

No 56 - Stibbe No 3

No 59 - Stibbe No 4