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Am I wrong to suggest these stamps are a bit — gaudy? Clashing? Ugly? There are uniform design elements and consistencies, to be sure The L1 stamp is a handsome two-color engraving — but it doesn’t match the rest of the set. On quite a few stamps, the colors don’t go together. starting with the 1/2d, bright green and indigo. Eek. The 7d looks like gray and Pepto Bismol. Urp. The contrasting red-brown and ultramarine on the 2 shilling makes my eyes go numb … Is it just me? Maybe you think this is a beautiful set. Well, I guess you are entitled to your opinion, even if it’s wrong. … (A dissenting opinion: Daughter Molly read the above and responded by email: “I think the supposedly 'garish' Gibraltar set looks quite Art Deco. It would be at home lounging in a deck chair on South Beach sipping Mai Tais while planning a night of salsa dancing with the pool boys.”)https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_90b.jpegfullsizeoutput_90bhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_905.jpegfullsizeoutput_905https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/img_1245.jpgIMG_1245Here is the page in my British Europe album reserved for the Queen Elizabeth set of 1953. Notice the missing spaces for the 10-shilling and L1 stamps. Some day … Also notice how several of the stamps are cancelled and the rest are mint. This is a very controversial practice, a philatelic gamble that I hope pays off (see discussion in text) …https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_8fe.jpegfullsizeoutput_8fehttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_8fd.jpegfullsizeoutput_8fdAfter I decant newly arrived stamps from the mailing envelope, I usually stick them on a small stock page, behind glassine holders on a black background, and display them on my desk so I can admire them for a while before mounting them in my albums.2026-04-24T20:44:48+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2018/07/12/bonus-the-very-latest/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_2739.jpegfullsizeoutput_2739https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_2738.jpegfullsizeoutput_2738https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_26a3.jpegfullsizeoutput_26a3https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_269f.jpegfullsizeoutput_269fhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_269e.jpegfullsizeoutput_269ehttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_269d.jpegfullsizeoutput_269dhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_269c.jpegfullsizeoutput_269chttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/img_5860.jpgIMG_5860https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_269b.jpegfullsizeoutput_269bhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fullsizeoutput_2699.jpegfullsizeoutput_26992026-04-24T20:28:11+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2018/06/13/bonus-stamps-from-all-over/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fullsizeoutput_24cd.jpegfullsizeoutput_24cdhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fullsizeoutput_24cb.jpegfullsizeoutput_24cbhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fullsizeoutput_24ca.jpegfullsizeoutput_24cahttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fullsizeoutput_24c4.jpegfullsizeoutput_24c4https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fullsizeoutput_24c3.jpegfullsizeoutput_24c3https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/fullsizeoutput_24c2.jpegfullsizeoutput_24c22026-04-24T20:27:28+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/07/14/the-mystery-box/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_1869.jpegfullsizeoutput_1869This envelope is interesting chiefly because of the return address. Was it really sent from Indonesia, using a U.N. stamp? Was it carried by diplomatic or official pouch from Jakarta to New York City, where it received the U.N. cancel and continued on its way? My understanding is that U.N. stamps are only valid for postage on mail posted at a U.N. facility. Indeed, I believe that restriction is one reason canceled U.N. stamps have kept some catalogue value — because relatively few of them are ever used on actual letters or packages. A footnote on U.N. stamp values in general: Most U.N. issues are quite inexpensive, even those dating back to the first definitive set in 1951. A few stamps from the early years have spiked in value — a souvenir sheet from 1955 commemorating the 10th anniversary of the U.N. charter is selling on eBay for up to $100! In general, however, U.N. stamps are valued in cents rather than dollars, often selling below “face” value. For example, you can purchase a mint, never-hinged copy of the $1 definitive from 1951 for 65 cents. This devaluation may have something to do with the fact that the U.N. is not a “nation,” so some collectors are not comfortable accepting the stamps as legitimate collectables. But no — wouldn’t some collectors single them out as desirable and unusual for that very reason? I think it more likely that many stamp collectors share a general mistrust of the U.N. — whether it’s the radical right-wingers who shudder at the thought of “world government,” or those disillusioned by the inability of this world body, with its bickering ambassadors and pampered international civil servants, to keep the world safe. https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_1852.jpegfullsizeoutput_1852https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_1851.jpegfullsizeoutput_1851This is catnip for collectors: An illustrated album page, and stamps to fill every space; go to it!https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_2750.jpgIMG_2750https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_1850.jpegfullsizeoutput_1850Among the wittiest stamp issues marking the centenary of the Universal Postal union in 1974 is this oversize set — beautifully engraved and gorgeously colored portraits of a seagull with a letter clasped in its beak. (I still don’t know exactly where this French oceanic territory is located … I suppose I should go look it up … I do know that this tiny island group has issued gorgeous stamps over the years — oversize, engraved, brightly colored renditions of nautical subjects. Many of the stamps are rather dear — this pair, for example is selling online for a respectable $8.)https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_184f.jpegfullsizeoutput_184fI was touched by this issue from the west African nation of Togo in 1965, marking the U.N.’s 20th anniversary. It look the occasion to pay tribute to Adlai Stevenson (see inset portrait). Stevenson, the former Illinois governor, presidential candidate (1952, 1956) and U.N. ambassador, died suddenly while walking down a London street. I admired Stevenson, as did my parents, and I mourned his loss. Why Togo in particular chose to honor him I don’t know. Surely there is a story involved …https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_184e.jpegfullsizeoutput_184ehttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_184d.jpegfullsizeoutput_184dEek! Look what I found when I opened a dusty folder of stamp material in Aunt Eleanor’s collection. What is that stuff? It looks like paper or cardboard that some big worm has chewed up. You don’t suppose it’s alive …?https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/img_2739.jpgIMG_2739https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_184c.jpegfullsizeoutput_184cThis charming UN/Geneva stamp and first-day cancel expresses a splendid aspiration — to live in peace with one 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Today’s father probably is immersed in Facebook, or cable sports, while Junior is burrowing ever deeper into games and social media — none of which have anything to do with stamps. To which I say: so what?https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1b9e.jpegfullsizeoutput_1b9e2017-12-21T19:32:03+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/10/08/bonus-is-a-stamp-illegal-if-it-starts-a-war/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1aed.jpegfullsizeoutput_1aedhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1aec.jpegfullsizeoutput_1aechttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1aeb.jpegfullsizeoutput_1aebhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1aea.jpegfullsizeoutput_1aeahttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1ae8.jpegfullsizeoutput_1ae8https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1ae7.jpegfullsizeoutput_1ae7https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1ae6.jpegfullsizeoutput_1ae6https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1ae5.jpegfullsizeoutput_1ae5https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1af0.jpegVersion 2https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/fullsizeoutput_1ae3.jpegfullsizeoutput_1ae32017-10-08T02:08:10+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/09/06/cinderellas-part-four-illegal-stamps-1-introduction/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_198b.jpegfullsizeoutput_198bhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_1a5e.jpegfullsizeoutput_1a5ehttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_19e5.jpegfullsizeoutput_19e5https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_19e3.jpegfullsizeoutput_19e3https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_19e1.jpegfullsizeoutput_19e1https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_19cc.jpegfullsizeoutput_19cchttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_19cb.jpegfullsizeoutput_19cbhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_19ce.jpegfullsizeoutput_19cehttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_1992.jpegfullsizeoutput_1992https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/fullsizeoutput_1991.jpegfullsizeoutput_19912017-09-12T08:58:48+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/08/18/cinderellas-part-three-the-first-cinderellas/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_1937.jpegVersion 2https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/fullsizeoutput_1932.jpegfullsizeoutput_19322017-08-18T14:33:45+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/08/04/cinderellas-part-two-artistamps/2017-08-05T16:10:44+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/07/30/cinderellas-part-one/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_1901.jpegVersion 2https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_1904.jpegVersion 3https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_1905.jpegVersion 4https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_18ff.jpegfullsizeoutput_18ffhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_18f4.jpegfullsizeoutput_18f4I am including this last image from Donald Evans — a gorgeous set from “Tropides Islands” — because I love it so. Something about the colors first enthralled me, then the exotic shapes of the palm trees; and finally, the labels — cabbage palm, barrel palm, sentry palm — conjured up more visions. What a tour de force! These Images bubble like a refreshing stream, immersing the viewer in color and shape and order. The stamps take on totemic significance, as vibrant emblems of nature on orderly display. My eyes are bathed in an ur-spring of philatelic bliss … https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_18f2.jpegfullsizeoutput_18f2Top left: The black label featuring a delicately engraved scroll announcing, “For testing purposes only” is fairly self-explanatory — though I wonder exactly what was being tested. Was it the printing technique? The ink color? The coil process? The pre-canceling process? And why the elaborate engraving? A joke? Or was it also being tested on the public? So many questions … As for the other two items in this image — At lower left is a “cleared” stamp from the TSA (Transportation Safety Administration), part of the Department of Homeland Security. I expect I’m not supposed to keep such a security Cinderella like this in a stamp collection. But what the heck, I’m a reckless rebel. The reason it is a Cinderella, in my view, is that it has nothing to do with postage, just with letting me carry my luggage on the plane. The accompanying sheet of paper has no relevance except to display the striking ink stamp of Homeland Security. https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_18f1.jpegfullsizeoutput_18f1Yet another selection — clockwise from top right: A campaign stamp label for GOP presidential candidate Wendell Willkie, who ran against FDR in 1940 (Who was his running mate? Oregon Sen. Charles McNary); a 2-cent “bedding stamp” from the state of Georgia; the same $5 U.S. consular fee stamp (oops); and in the upper left corner, a slightly exotic eye-design, a control number and date stamp (from 1945) — from a subscription book, perhaps? Coupons?https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_18ed.jpegfullsizeoutput_18edAnother arbitrary Cinderella selection — clockwise from top center: A playing card stamp, like you used to tear off when you opened a fresh deck of cards; next, a $5 consular service fee stamp, with what looks like a hand cancel “Istanbul, Turkey”; bottom right, two labels for the Tobacco Workers International Union; and to the left, part of a strip of 25-cent U.S. bond stamps (aren’t they colorful engravings?) https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_18eb.jpegfullsizeoutput_18ebRation stamps from the World War II era (1940s). https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fullsizeoutput_18ea.jpegfullsizeoutput_18eaHere is an arbitrary selection of Cinderella stamps — clockwise, from top left: A World War I commemorative from the American legion; two early Easter Seals; a pair of Stock Transfer overprints on U.S. documentary stamps; and a fairly beat-up copy of a 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cancel? This Pietersburg stamp carries the scrawl as well as a circular date stamp. What gives? By the way, this illustration comes from the internet, not my collection; I held out for stamps without the dreaded taint of “cancelled to order” (CTO). https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_a03.jpegfullsizeoutput_a03https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_9ff.jpegfullsizeoutput_9ffhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_a05.jpegVersion 2https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_a08.jpegVersion 3https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_a09.jpegVersion 4https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_a07.jpegfullsizeoutput_a072017-03-17T02:30:56+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/03/15/bonus-usa-no-10-or-no-11/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_982.jpegfullsizeoutput_982https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_980.jpegfullsizeoutput_980https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/img_1270.jpgIMG_1270https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_955.jpegfullsizeoutput_955These stamps are from my late father’s collection. I have included them to illustrate the difference between No. 10 (orange brown) and No. 11 (dull red) — at least, in Pa’s estimation…https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_954.jpegfullsizeoutput_9542017-03-15T20:38:18+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/07/39/2017-03-13T21:55:30+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/03/13/victorias-empire-on-stamps/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_1332.jpegfullsizeoutput_1332Notice my pencil marks below the stamp, which indicate I purchased it in 2012 for $16.53, and that a catalogue listing in 2009 valued the stamp at $110. Not a bad deal!https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_1330.jpegfullsizeoutput_1330https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_896.jpegfullsizeoutput_896https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_895.jpegfullsizeoutput_895https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_894.jpegfullsizeoutput_894https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_892.jpegfullsizeoutput_892https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_891.jpegfullsizeoutput_891https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_890.jpegfullsizeoutput_890https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_88f.jpegfullsizeoutput_88fhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_88e.jpegfullsizeoutput_88e2017-03-13T19:34:55+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/03/13/bonus-a-vaster-empire/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_817.jpegfullsizeoutput_817https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_82f.jpegfullsizeoutput_82fVictoria's 60 year on the throne: In this double commemoration, a Leeward Island stamp from the jubilee series of the 1890s also carries the unusual "Sexagenary 1897" overprint. https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_816.jpegfullsizeoutput_816In this map of the world in 1921, as compared to the one from 1898 depicted on the Canadian stamp, you will notice how the British Empire (again, in red) expanded, particularly in North Africa and around India.https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_83f.jpegfullsizeoutput_83fhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_840.jpegfullsizeoutput_8402017-03-13T18:03:14+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/03/12/onward-from-the-congo-but-where/https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_132e.jpegfullsizeoutput_132eUntil recently, I tended to dismiss South African stamps as rather ... homely. Now I'm not so sure. https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_132d.jpegfullsizeoutput_132dhttps://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_132a.jpegfullsizeoutput_132aNotice the stylistic similarities between these definitive sets from Bechuanaland Protectorate, above, extending from George V in the 1930s through George VI and finally, to Elizabeth II in the 1950s. Now view the similarities in Basutoland’s series, below — up to a point. Why didn’t Basutoland keep up the tradition and print the same design with Queen Elizabeth? Is it really all about the crocodile? 
https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_1321.jpegfullsizeoutput_1321https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_1322.jpegfullsizeoutput_1322Here's the last Congo caption for now, I promise. The stamps above were produced in 1997, as the nation's name was changed from "Zaire" back to "Congo." According to the Universal Postal Union, the stamps were "illegal issues." In a letter to the UPU, M.S. Raman, assistant postal director, declared that the stamps "are fraudulent and are therefore not admitted for philatelic sale by its postal Services." Below are legitimate stamps from 2000, using the correct new name for the country: Republique Democratique du Congo. https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_811.jpegfullsizeoutput_811https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_810.jpegfullsizeoutput_810The Orange Free State was also a Boer Republic — until it wasn’t. Notice how the original design was surcharged once, then again, and overprinted “VRI” to signify the dominion of Queen Victoria over the Boer land. https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_80f.jpegfullsizeoutput_80fI purposely didn’t include a stamp in this illustration — only the blank spaces on my page in the British Africa album. That’s because the so-called Pietersburg issues of 1900 are rare and expensive. I could include a photo from eBay, but I prefer to wait. Perhaps by the time I write more expansively about South Africa I will actually have one of the elusive rascals. I already have learned some arcana, to wit: I should insist on a copy with only a handwritten cancellation, as above, and not with a customary postal cancellation, because those copies were cancelled-to-order and worth considerably less … (What does cancelled-to-order mean? That’s another story — don’t get me started …)https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_80e.jpegfullsizeoutput_80eHow about this beauty? It’s from 1895, celebrating with images of progress and productivity. The central coat of arms (under a heavy cancel, sorry) represents the doomed “South African Republic” of the Boers. https://mancryfmf.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/fullsizeoutput_80d.jpegfullsizeoutput_80dThe Cape of Good Hope stamp above, overprinted with a big red “G,” is from Griqualand West, in 1877. This was a short-lived British crown colony, apart and distant from Griqualand East, which never put out postage stamps. The ":Nieuwe Republiek" stamp below, issued in 1887, is from a breakaway republic of the Boers, which apparently retained sterling currency. Look closely and you should see the embossed coat of arms behind the printing. I paid $12.94 for this stamp in 2012. The Griqualand West stamp (from 1878) cost me $4.95 in 2015. 2017-03-12T04:28:26+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/03/10/10-congo-stamp-anecdotes/2017-03-10T15:26:46+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/03/08/congo-an-introduction/2017-03-08T23:07:11+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/03/08/bonus-royal-portraits/2017-03-08T22:13:12+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/03/04/a-10-minute-german-history-lesson/2017-03-05T05:19:46+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/28/british-africa-basutoland/2020-11-04T11:45:39+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/25/bonus-filling-spaces/2017-01-25T14:03:56+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/24/british-africa-ascension/2017-01-24T15:23:16+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/22/ericana-series-1975-6/2017-01-24T04:50:06+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/21/introduction/2017-01-21T02:37:49+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/contact/2017-01-10T04:07:15+00:00weekly0.6https://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/09/why-collect-stamps/2017-01-09T19:14:23+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/09/famous-stamp-collectors/2017-01-09T06:05:59+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2017/01/08/stamp-bonus-the-kenmore-caper/2017-01-09T02:36:28+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.com/2016/12/21/first-blog-post/2016-12-21T20:00:18+00:00monthlyhttps://mancryfmf.comdaily1.02026-08-28T18:33:12+00:00