Uman

Uman, or Умань, is yet another nonexistent place created by evil color printers to sell their bogus topical sheetlets and souvenir sheets. That's not a very imaginative name if you ask me. Just change a letter on an existing country and – voilá! They could have used "Thingapore" or "Jermany" and then a lot of people would think they were getting error stamps.

Uman's printers apparently are pointing their bogus wares at Russian collectors since many have УМНАЬ and have Russian inscriptions. Plus, a lot of their sheetlets appear to be in triptych format like Russian Orthodox icons. So maybe, just maybe, there's something like the nested Matrushka dolls for connoiseurs of fake stamps. In other words, there are a lot of Russians running around with "sucker" on their foreheads and don't even know it.

These may or may not be considered cinderellas based on your personal definition, but they are intended to take a fair amount of your cash in exchange for a printed piece of paper that costs very little. May we suggest collecting magazine and newspaper clippings if you truly want or need to collect images of your favorite star or topic?  File:Uman Model T bogus.jpg|Just the thing to use for a supposed express mail stamp: A Model T Ford 

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