Blog post date posted pp
Preface 1/19/17 7
Introduction 1/21/17 6
Famous stamp collectors, starting with FDR 1/9/17 6
Why collect stamps? 1/8/17 8
Bonus: Americana set 1/22/17 1/22/17 2
British Africa: Ascension 1/24/17 8
Bonus: Filling spaces 1/25/17 1/25/17 2
British Africa: Basutoland 1/28/17 8
Bonus: Royal portraits on stamps 3/8/17 3
Congo: Introduction 3/8/17 7
Ten interesting stories about Congo stamps 3/10/17 41
Onward from the Congo — but where? 3/12/17 11
Bonus: A vaster empire 3/13/17 5
Victoria’s empire on stamps 3/13/17 14
Bonus: Latest acquisitions 3/15/17 5
Bonus: No. 10 or No. 11? 3/15/17 5
Bonus: Pietersburg 3/17/17 8
Bonus: Edward Klempka, stamp collector? (not posted) 2
Bonus: Stamp fun on the cheap … Bavaria! 6/8/17 3
Bonus: Stamp show! 12
Bonus: Early stamp book 3
Bonus: Online buying spree 5
Bonus: A deal too good to be true 11/11/18 6
Bonus: The prodigal packet (moved to Vol V) 12/18/18 4
Bonus: The Kenmore caper 1/8/17 5
Bonus: A 10-minute German history lesson 7
A top-60 stamp collecting blog 4/28/17 4
Bonus: Completing sets 4/30/17 10
Bonus: Congo slide show 3/22/17 39
Bonus: An African rogues gallery on stamps, part one 5/4/17 16
Bonus: An African rogues gallery on stamps, part two 5/13/17 22
Bonus: It’s about time 7/22/17 3
+Cinderellas part one: Overview 7/30/17 13
+Cinderellas part two: Artistamps 8/3/17 12
+Cinderellas part three: The first Cinderellas 8/18/17 18
+Cinderellas part four, Illegal Stamps! (in five parts)
1. Introduction 9/5/17 14
2. Russian illegals 9/5/17 15
BONUS: Stamp wars 10/1/17 14
BONUS: End of collecting, refuted 10/21/17 (w/column) 4
BONUS: Seychelles and the key value 11/13/1 4
S: Stamp ramblings and musings 12/1/17 4
+Cinderellas part four:
3. Balkan illegals 12/28/17 13
+Cinderellas part four:
: 4. A spreading stain 2/23/18 18
5. A nightmare of abuse and excess 3/23/18 9
Bechuanaland: Introduction 4/28/18 9
BONUS: You Buy One Stamp 5/18/18 5
NUS: Stamps from All Over 6/14/18 4
BONUS: The Very Latest 7/12/18 13
Somaliland: Yesterday and Today 8/13/18 12
Zimbabwe Heroes? Part One 9/15/18 7
Zimbabwe Heroes? Part Two 10/12/18 8
BONUS: A Deal too Good to Be True 11/11/18 6
Bonus: The prodigal packet 12/18/18 12/18/18 4
BONUS: Fiscals 1/24/19 6
British Africa: Bechuanaland main 2/24/19 11
Bechuanaland Becomes Botswana 3/18/19 7
BONUS: Jennies 4/22/19 9
BONUS: Cut to Shape 5/18/19 7
BONUS: Stamps On My Walls 6/27/19 14
BONUS: Stamp Calamity! 7/20/19 10
Pilgrims and Boers: Postal History of British Imperialism in Southern and Central-East Africa
8/24/19 11
BONUS: La Belle France 9/14/19 19
*Zanzibar! 10/18/19 13
*Cape of Good Hope — first issue 1853! 11/20/19 12
*Mafeking Besieged! 12/15/19 6
Natal! — first issue 1857 1/24/20 6
Bonus: Stamp Map Update! 2/22/20 7
Bonus: The Art and Craft of Soaking Off Stamps 3/26/20 5
*ZAR/Transvaal: The Story Begins (part 1) 4/20/20 8
Bonus: Stamp Collecting During the Covid19 Shutdown 5/24/20 4
*ZAR/Transvaal: The Story Continues (part 2) 6/23/20 8
*ZAR/Transvaal: Into the Weeds! (Philatelic Addenda) (part 3) 7/24/20 8
*Orange Free State — first issue 1868 8/23/20 10
*Griqualand West — first issue 1874 9/24/20 10
Bonus: The PLS SAVE project 10/25/20 (first PDF!) 12
*Stellaland and New Republic 11/24 /20 4
*The VRs 12/11/20 5
**Pretty Stamps, Ugly Stamps: Introduction 1/26/21 8
**Pretty/Ugly: Classic British Designs 2/20/21 11
**Pretty-ugly: Terrible Colors 3/19/21 9
**Pretty-ugly: Delicious Colours 4/17/21 14
*Bechuanaland Recap 5/22/21(intro +) 9
White Stamps 6/17/21(1 intro+) 16
*Zululand Part One 7/24/21 7
NEWS FLASH: Hey Taliban: What About the Women and Girls? 8/21/21 4
Afghanistan Gallery 9/23/21 11
*Zululand Part Two 10/17/21 11
*Swaziland/Eswatini 11/30/21 9
*Swaziland News Flash! 12/1/21 3
Bonus: Special Delivery 12/16/21 14
Bonus: GB No. 106 — A “Difficult” Stamp 1/21/22 7
Bonus: Philatelic Playtime 2/23/22 9
Bonus: Freddy’s France 3/22/22 11
Bonus: Stamps Arouse Suspicion! 4/23/22 3
Merton’s Churches on Stamps 5/16/22 5
French Landscape Engravings – Introduction 6/24/22 6
Albert Decaris, Master Engraver 7/21/22 5
Bonus: Not Worth a Plugged Nickel? 8/22/22 10
Other French Engravers 1 9/26/22 8
Extra! God Save the King: The King Charles III philatelic era has begun 10/7/22 3
Elizabeth on Stamps: part one, the early years 11/23/22 8
part two, Machins 12/18/22 7
part three (final) 1/23/23 7
Bonus: A Stamp Tattoo for Alma? 2/23/23 7
Other French Engravers 2 3/25/23 7
Other French Engravers 3 4/24/23 6
Other French Engravers 4 / part one 5/16/23 2
part two 5/23/23 2
part three: Vichy! 5/29/23 4
King Charles III Stamps! 6/22/23 4
*British south, central, east Africa
Introduction part 1 7/20/23 3
chapter 2 — rhodes 8/25/23 2
Introduction part 2 8/27/23 3
rhodes continued 8/31/23 3
BSAC — the stamps 9/11/23 3
BSAC colour studies 9/22/23 4
BCA stamps 10/14/23 4
IBEAC stamps 11/20/23 2
East Africa and Uganda 12/18/23 2
Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika 1/24/24 3
1: The SS William Mackinnon 2/24/24 4
2: Ugandan Martyrs 3/18/24 4
Bonus: Mail Order! 4/28/24 3
British South, Central, East Africa (cont’d)
First South African stamp, 1910 5/23/24 4
The Early Years 6/28/24 3
Sitting with Apartheid 7/22/24 5
Philatelic Phiction: The Bantustans 8/22/24 6
South Africa After Apartheid
1. Promising start 9/23/24 4
2. High aspirations, dismal result 10/28/24 3
3. Sidebar: Dodging a bullet; philatelic note 11/22/24 4
4. South Africa’s Fate 12/10/24 3
Vol. XI
Ugly: Obscure allegories — the special case of the UN 1/24/25 8
British South, Central, East Africa (cont’d)
Basutoland (1933) 1. Outpost of Empire 2/27/25 3
2. Illusion of Imperial Continuity 3/26/25 4
3. Empire’s Last years 4/27/25 4
Final thoughts: Empire’s Artifacts 5/24/25 3
The Philatelic Sparrow — intro 6/25/25 2
His eye is on the sparrow (part two) 7/23/25 4
His eye is on the sparrow (part three) 8/25/25 5
Pretty: Ships and boats part one 9/25/25 4
Ships and boats part two 10/27/25 4
US Ships and Boats 11/25/25 3
US Ships and Boats – part two 12/19/25 4
The Most Beautiful Ship Stamp 1/24/26 2
Heroes and Villains 2/27/26 3
Are These Special? 3/25/26 3/25/26 4
FMF STAMP PROJECT 