ANGOLA ILLEGAL STAMPS
1999

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Angola according to U.P.U. Circular 406 and other resources

On September 25, 2000 the postal administration for Angola by request to M.S. Ramon (Assistant Director-General for the U.P.U.) posted to the Universal Postal Union a circular warning of the discovery of a large number of illegal stamps created with their country name that are on the market. The circular is number 406. It states the following.

Dear Sir/Madam

The postal administration of ANGOLA asks me to inform you of the following:

"Our administration has been informed of the existence of several sets of illegal postage stamps issued by three companies located in Belgium, Great Britain and Lithuania.

"We would like to point out that all the stamps produced by these companies in the name of our country are illegal and that their circulation does harm to the Angolan and international postal services and to collectors. A list of the postage stamps concerned is given in the annex.

"The illegal issue of these postage stamps is contrary to the provisions of the Detailed Regulations of the UPU Convention and to the laws of the Republic of Angola. These fake postage stamps must not therefore be accepted as a means of postal prepayment."

Yours faithfully,

M S RAMAN
Assistant Director-General

Information about the sheetlets

Type of issue Denomination of stamps Subject of stamps
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: roses 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: fish 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: bonzai 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: Cats 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: flowers
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: cactus 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: Eagles
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: birds
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: lions
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: butterflies
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: panda
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: mushrooms 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Trains of Angola 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: gorillas 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Trains of Angola 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto 2x
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: dogs
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: swans
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: turtles
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: owls
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: bees
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Animals: dinosaurs
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Trains of Angola
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: flowers
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: roses
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: Mushrooms
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: Bonzai
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: Flowers
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 3500000 NKz (6 stamps) Flora: mushrooms
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (6 stamps) Millennium 2000
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (9 stamps) Ditto
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (4 stamps) Millennium 2000 - Centenary of the film
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (9 stamps) Papal visit
Sheetlet 2500000 NKz (6 stamps) Personalities of the 20th century
Sheetlet 950000 NKz (2 stamps) Cardinal John O'Connor
Sheetlet 2500000 (9 stamps) Cardinal John O'Connor

The circular describes numerous souvenir sheets that were found to be on the market in 2000. The majority of the counterfeits described are all dated between 1998 to 2000.

The Scott catalog has a noting on more of them as well. One set was actually listed until it was discovered that the set was also counterfeit illegal stamps.
You can find the note in the 1999 section of the catalog. It states the following:

The Flora and Fauna stamps, formerly Nos. 1067-1078,
were not authorized by Angola postal authorities.
Other items inscribed "Angola" that were not authorized
but which have appeared on the market include sheets
with the themes of Disney and History of Animation,
Millennium, Animals, Trains, Flora, Muhammad Ali & Lennox Lewis,
Bruce Lee, Albert Einstein / Moon Landing, Elvis Presley and other entertainers,
Great Personalities, John Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe,
Martin Luther King Jr., Payne Stewart, Colin Montgomerie,
Babe Ruth, Cardinal John O'Conner, Pope John Paul II / Mother Teresa,
and Queen Elizabeth II / Winston Churchill.

Many more have been produced at that time and since that time. Most of the illegal stamps described are still on the market today in 2021. They are available through private stamp dealers and their websites. They are available on eBay and Delcampe. They are everywhere! These illegal issues are fabrication of stamps that have never had any postal validity in Angola and have been denounced as fraudulent. They were and are created by certain greedy, unethical and immoral stamp dealers. Any stamp seller out there that offers these "stamps" either does not know they are illegal stamps or is deceitful and they should be avoided at all costs. The deceitful ones prey upon unknowing collectors new and old. They prey upon topical collectors mostly because the majority do not have the knowledge that they are worthless in the stamp market. Some are quite obvious because they have hundreds of lots available on eBay and other public auction venues.

If they are selling this junk then avoid them!
Even if they have legitimate stamps for sale. Buy from sellers that do not have these in their offerings. If you are buying legitimate stamps from them you are still supporting the illegal stamp trade because they are supporting it. Tell them that you do not want to buy from them because they sell illegal stamps. There is no excuse to make them available to anyone.

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

To find out what stamps are real and legitimate for Angola visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Angola section.

The Universal Postal Union WNS website

I have found the Colnect online catalog to be helpful as well.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Angola

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 Angola Illegal Stamps

I have also found the StampWorld Catalog an excellent resource.

The StampWorld Online Catalog for Angola

Or 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.

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.
Many times now (2021) 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 researchers like myself.

Sellers that call these "private", "locals", "Cinderella's", "unauthorized" are deceiving you. They are counterfeit 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.

1999

In 1999 the British producers continue the onslaught of illegal stamp production in the name of Angola. This time creating two huge productions relating to the Millennium and Great Personalities. Both being produced in numerous formats and varieties. All should be avoided.

In 2000 Angola did issue one sheet commemorating the Millennium. I will show that on that page. Other than that sheet and related materials like FDC's and such, everything else related to the topic of the Millennium in the name of Angola dating 1999, 2000 and 2001 are illegal stamps!

There are tons of these illegal stamp souvenir sheets, color proofs, imperforates, deluxe sheets and so forth. Way too much to show everything. They have been sold to thousands of collectors worldwide and are still being offered by many dealers to this day in 2021. Here is a list of current dealers on the main online stamp venues who are currently selling this garbage. Many you will recognize from sales of other illegal stamps. The main distributors of illegal stamps prominent once again. Avoid them as they are either knowing sellers of counterfeit illegal stamps or unknowing sellers which cannot be trusted because of the fact that they do not know what they are selling.

This is only a sampling of how bad it is. I simply used searches for "Angola Millennium", "Angola Millenium", "Angola 1999", "Angola Einstein", "Angola Elvis", and "Angola Disney". There are surely many more not listed. This is who turned up selling 1999 Angola illegal stamps with just those searches....

On eBay

konksplatt a top rated plus seller.
rschollstamp an ASDA member. Shame on you!
mjaffe another ASDA member.
rogerpo99 located in the UK, owner of Avion Stamps.
keyholekate1954 located in the UK.
ercolegloriauk located in Italy.
antverpiastamps located in Belgium.
philatelic-books located in the UK.
imperialmintny located in the US.
cyberwoof located in Canada.
azuckuss located in the UK.
fire5003 located in Canada
brozius located in the Netherlands
eren3049 located in the UK.
danaphil2010 located in the US.
pdcollectables2010 located in the UK.
elvisstuff_co_uk located in the UK.
golfword located in the US.
stukatz-stamps another ASDA member!

On Delcampe

jerbug28 located in France.
JandR_Stamps located in the UK.
saskconnection located in Canada (account closed)
bullterrier located in the UK.
anti2 located in Norway.
phila51 located in France.
buck68 located in France.
patpatounet located in France.
schaken located in the Netherlands.
bigwhale located in China.
strvic1 located in the US.
verbak located in the Netherlands.
robling located in the Netherlands.
fabio8482 located in Italy.
teoca located in Romania.
12345_12345 located in the Netherlands.
jptsellos located in Spain.
prieeltje located in Belgium.
chieusse6 located in France.
gerlago25 located in Belgium (account closed).
ezoo located in the US.
Duzur located in Ukraine.
chessfan located in Belgium.
aidamoha located in Germany (account closed).
brezza_marina located in Italy.
tazidevil located in Australia.
georgspostkartenwelt located in Germany (account closed).
vpernin71 located in France (account closed).
liophilnet located in France.
bobolink100 located in the Netherlands.
avifauna1970 located in Germany.
wuliangshen located in China.
hdd899 located in Indonesia.
sethi20_0 located in France.
collect4all located in the Netherlands (account closed).
mickyboo2a located in the UK.
atmos located in the Netherlands.
artshop1973 located in Spain (account closed)
sem located in Russia.
scomiphil02 located in Belgium.
capucines located in France.
gandisellos located in Spain.
isabeldelatour1949 located in the UK.

On Hipstamps

Bentley1Stamp located in the UK.
rogerpo99 located in the UK.
artstamps (Isabeldelatour-Artstamps) located in the UK.
Newshop2012 located in Spain.
mjaffe located in the US.
ercolegloria-Italy located in Italy.
RScholl located in the US.
2Cheshire located in the US.
ercolegloriasrl located in Italy.
W4Stamps located in the UK.
waynec8711 located in the US.
StuartKatzStamps located in the US.

Amazing yes? This is why a unification of all collecting fields needs to happen to remove this criminal element from the market permanently. Until that happens the flooding of these counterfeit stamps will continue to plague everyone everywhere. It is destroying the topical thematic stamp collecting filed the most.

Countdown to the Millennium

1999 Countdown to the Millennium Souvenir Sheets

These are noted in general in both the circular and the Scott catalog.

This first group shows you the main set in the form of four different stamps on one souvenir sheet with (sort of) labels and a corresponding souvenir sheet of 1.

Countdown to Millennium 1900-1909 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1900-1909 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1910-1919 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1910-1919 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1920-1929 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1920-1929 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1930-1939 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1930-1939 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1940-1949 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1940-1949 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1950-1959 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1950-1959 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1960-1969 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1960-1969 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1970-1979 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1970-1979 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1980-1989 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1980-1989 Souvenir Sheet of 1


Countdown to Millennium 1990-1999 Souvenir Sheet of 4


Countdown to Millennium 1990-1999 Souvenir Sheet of 1


The criminals produced similar souvenir sheets with one of the stamps from the time era placed in blocks of four. Here are examples.

Countdown to Millennium Souvenir Sheets of 4 with same image on all four counterfeit stamps


They produced them in double tete-beche souvenir sheets as well. All to maximize profits from unknowing collectors.

Countdown to Millennium Souvenir Sheets of 4 in tete-beche pairs



They produced color proof sets of them and to this day ask extreme prices for them. They are worthless! Here is an example.

Countdown to Millennium Souvenir Sheets of 4 and 1 Color Proof Sets


Fake First Day Covers exist as well.

Countdown to Millennium Souvenir Sheet of 4 on Fake First Day Cover


This shows you how major these illegal stamp producers are. They are capable of mass producing counterfeit sets like these at will. They and their distributors have been doing this for three decades now and need to be exposed and their products and themselves removed from the stamp market permanently!

Elvis Presley Souvenir Sheet of 4



Elvis Presley Souvenir Sheet of 1

This counterfeit souvenir sheet uses the Elvis stamp from the "Great People" set shown below. Yet it is not inscribed with the Great People inscriptions. This is confusing (probably by design) when trying to compile what makeup the Great People set entails. More information on it will be with the set.



Flora and Fauna Illegal Stamp Set of 12

This is the set noted in Scott catalog that was delisted (SC Nos. 1067-1078).

It was printed in sheets of 9 as the example below shows and can be found perforated and imperforate. The criminal producer almost got away with getting them listed.



Flora and Fauna Illegal Stamp Sheet of 9



Flora and Fauna Illegal Stamps Overprinted for Hobby Day

I found these counterfeit stamps with bogus overprints being sold on Delcampe by one seller.

1999 Flora and Fauna with Gold Hobby Day Overprint


1999 Flora and Fauna with Silver Hobby Day Overprint


1999 Flora and Fauna with Gold Hobby Day Overprint Detailed View

Great People of the 20th Century

In 1999 the British counterfeit producers created another massive set celebrating Great People of the 20th Century. From the following "main souvenir sheets" a massive number of single stamp souvenir sheet in sheets of 4 and 1 were made. Some have the "Great People of the 20th Century" inscription on them and some do not. My take is that some that do not have the inscription were made to "match up" with certain "odd" blocks like the Elvis Presley one shown above. There are so many varieties of this "series" that I cannot show them all. Note that any "stamps" of this style are indeed illegal stamps whether shown here or not. Avoid them and the dealers who sell them!

Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheets of 9



Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheet of 6


Souvenir sheets of 4 in tete-beche form were made from the illegal stamps from the above sheets.

Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheets of 4


Souvenir sheets of 1 were made from the illegal stamps from the above sheets.

Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheets of 1


Also as shown with the Elvis Presley set above, illegal souvenir sheets of one without the Great People inscription were also made.

Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheet of 1 Without Inscription


Again worthless color proof sets were made.

Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheet Color Proof Sets


Even what the dealer calls an "uncut proof sheet" that is not worthy of paying for. The dealer asking 95 GBP for it stating only five exist. It is not worth 95 cents! The only thing this sheet is good for is showing direct collaborating between this dealer and the counterfeit producer which is grounds for criminal prosecution for aiding and abetting a criminal counterfeiter and selling of counterfeit goods.

Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheets Uncut Sheet


Here are more examples of fake First Day covers for this series.

Great People of the 20th Century Souvenir Sheet and the Single Counterfeit Stamp on Fake First Day Cover


Are you in shock yet? Let us move on.....

Payne Stewart Golf Souvenir Sheet of 6

Noted in Scott catalog.



Ryder Cup 33rd Golf Tournament Souvenir Sheet of 9

A number of the illegal stamps from these Ryder Cup sheets were used to make other counterfeit souvenir sheets with the topic of the individual golfers like Tiger woods or Payne Stewart as shown which are the ones mentioned in the Scott catalog note. The problem here is was Scott noting the 1999 illegal stamps or the 2000 illegal stamps? This is because in 2000 the same golf personalities are used again on different styles of counterfeit illegal stamps.



Ryder Cup 33rd Golf Tournament Souvenir Sheet of 6



Ryder Cup 33rd Golf Tournament Souvenir Sheet of 4



Ryder Cup 33rd Golf Tournament Souvenir Sheet of 9 on Fake First Day Cover

Some dealers are claiming the Ryder Cup illegal stamps as 2000 issues. As you can see, they are not.



Tiger Woods The Great Champion Souvenir Sheet of 8 Plus Label



Tiger Woods The Great Champion Souvenir Sheet of 4

The bottom two "stamps" look ridiculous yes? Once removed, how would you tell what they are showing!



Turtles Souvenir Sheet of 3

I found this one being sold by 2cheshire on Hipstamps at this point in 2021 "exclusively".



The production of illegal stamps in the name of Angola by the British producers explodes in 2000. A real nightmare.....

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References taken from:
U.P.U. Circular No. 406
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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