BENIN ILLEGAL STAMPS
2013

Information and Reference of Illegal Stamps for Benin Created in 2013

The following images are of illegal stamps produced for Benin. Please remember that the producers of these illegals are not only greedy, they are crude and sometimes disgusting which is the nature of these people.

To verify what stamps are real and legitimate for Benin visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Benin section.

The Universal Postal Union WNS website

You can also get a very good reference of what was officially issued from the Colnect website.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Benin

Check out their Illegal Stamp section as well. It is far from complete but will help you verify many as well.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Benin Illegal Stamps

I have also found the StampWorld Catalog an excellent resource.

The StampWorld Online Catalog for Benin

You can also use a respectable catalog like Scott or Stanley Gibbons. Do not listen to these dealers trying to convince you they are something other than illegal stamps.

In 2004 when Benin produced circular 30 they did not know that there were more illegal stamps that were being circulated than what they listed. This has occurred for many of the victim countries. To correct it I have researched them all using the major catalog listings and the WNS system as reference to what was officially issued.

Here we go!

Many of the following illegal stamps can be found as imperforates and as color proof sets as well. Some exist on fake First Day Covers too.
Most times now (2019) the souvenir sheet sets and sheetlet sets are sold individually. Many times the stamps have been removed from the sheetlets and souvenir sheets. All of these "tactics" are used to avoid detection by UPU circular descriptions and search terms.

Sellers that call these "private", "locals", "Cinderella's", "unauthorized" are deceiving you. They are illegal stamps produced by a stamp dealer that is bent on ripping you off! Some sellers state "we offer them because they are on the market". Well how about you use a different dealer because that seller is "on the market"? If the stamp societies, auction sites and all other venues kicked these sellers off of their sites then they would have to comply or lose their ability to sell anything.

The following images are free for the use of all to use to alert the public to them. If anyone wants to make a public list of users on eBay, Delcampe and elsewhere who are selling these issues....fine by me since the UPU, PWMO and others appear to have given up or have not been updated in years.

If you have purchased any of these stamps from a dealer or if that dealer offers them, you should avoid that dealer! You will only be supporting illegal stamp makers who are only ripping you off.

2013

From 2012 forward Benin stopped filing their official stamp issues with the WNS system. The reasons why are unclear. Possibly because they did not see the system helping to stop the proliferation of fake counterfeit illegal stamps being produced and sold in the name of Benin. Possibly for financial reasons of which it is costly to to list each issue on the WNS system. For whatever reason(s) the WNS system cannot be used to find the newer official issues for Benin.

The Colnect online catalog is your best bet now for online access to verify the official issues. We still have conflicts with some of those as many are being listed by Michel and/or Yvert but not listed by Scott catalogs or Stanley Gibbons. There definitely needs to be some kind of unification of agreement between all the major catalogs in regards to the official issues for Benin.

In 2013 according to the Colnect catalog Benin officially issued 10 stamp issues.
Several values of the issues are not numbered by Scott Catalog. Unissued?

Benin 2013 Presidency of the Organization of African Unity Scott 1493-1494
Issued April 11, 2013 Printer is Cartor Security Printing


Benin 2013 Centenary of Birth of Former President Sourou Migan Apithy Scott 1495-1496
This is to be changed in the 2019 edition of Scott Catalog to 1497-1498.
Issued May 29, 2013 Printer is Cartor Security Printing


These two values do not have Scott numbers. You can clearly see they are used. There appear to be many examples used so why are they not listed by Scott Catalogs?
I think they are going to list them as Scott 1495-1496 because of the other number changes due in the 2019 edition. There is no reference to this change in the new notes that were added in the 2018 edition though. I will update when there is a change.

Benin 2013 Centenary of Birth of Former President Sourou Migan Apithy Unlisted in Scott Catalog
Issued May 29, 2013 Printer is Cartor Security Printing


Benin 2013 Centenary of the Lycee Behanzin, Porto-Novo Scott 1497-1499
This is to be changed in the 2019 edition of Scott Catalog to 1500-1502.
Issued April 12, 2013 Printer is Cartor Security Printing


The Scott catalog did not list the following value up until now. This stamp will be listed as Scott 1499 in the 2019 edition of Scott Catalog. This makes the listings consistent.

Benin 2013 Centenary of the Lycee Behanzin, Porto-Novo 200F Value
Issued April 12, 2013 Printer is Cartor Security Printing


Following are images of the illegal stamps I have found offered for Benin dating 2013. There may and probably are more. All of these I found in searches on eBay and Delcampe and all are illegal stamps made by producers bent on ripping you off!

I present them in alphabetical order of titles as there is no logical order for illegal stamps.

In 2013 the production of illegal stamps in the name of Benin continued to be slow. In this year though you will see that one huge set was produced that is plastered all over the internet these days in mainly individual ripoff sales of the single souvenir sheets.

2013 Battle of Koursk in Souvenir Sheet of 6

This is the main entry of the Eastern Europe (suspected Russian made) illegal stamp producers wares. Since this year they have plagued this and other countries with this fake junk. Always Russian this and Russian that. Mainly war and art related. The main movers are a user under the name mapka on Delcampe and mapka666 and europolstamps on eBay. We are "zeroing in" on these ripoff cons.
AVOID THEM!



2013 Battle of Koursk in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2013 Eclipses Space in Souvenir Sheets of 4



2013 Erotic Art Paintings in Souvenir Sheets of 4

Here is the first massive production of illegal stamps on a single topic made for Benin. They really did a lot of work on this group. you can find them for sale with silver or gold inlays. They are all worthless because they are all counterfeit illegal stamps!



2013 Erotic Art Paintings in Souvenir Sheets of 2



2013 Space Cosmonautics Anniversaries in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2013 Winter Olympic Games (2014) in Sheetlets of 9

Here our shoddy illegal stamp producer joins in on the fray. This time even adding fake "barcodes" and some fake "WW Security Press" logo. The "press" that made these is about as secure as a bag of money sitting on the sidewalk outside!




2013 Winter Olympic Games (2014) Examples in Souvenir Sheets of 1



In 2014 the massive onslaught of illegal stamps in the name of Benin began......

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References taken from:
WNS Website
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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