BENIN ILLEGAL STAMPS
2002

Information and Reference of Illegal Stamps for Benin Created in 2002

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 find out what stamps are real and legitimate for Benin visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Benin section.
Sadly, it has been found out that most series displayed in the 2002-3 listings which were submitted by the stamp agent were declared invalid by the Benin Postal administration and never released in Benin.

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 fully complete and shows many more illegal stamps not shown here.

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 (2018) 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.

2002

There is a conflict of interest between the Colnect website catalog and the WNS system for official stamps issued by Benin in 2002. Research and communication is ongoing to correct this.

On the WNS system there is shown only one set being issued in the name of Benin. This is a printed set of dogs.

Benin 2002 Dogs
November 28, 2002 Printer is The Fine Arts Company Sarl
According to the Michel catalogs and other sources this series was submitted to the UPU WNS Stamps system by the stamp agent yet declared
unauthorized by the Benin Postal administration and never released in Benin. In other words they are illegal stamps.



The WNS site does not show the surcharged stamps shown on the Colnect website catalog.

Benin 2002 Surcharged Stamps
Varieties of these are shown on the Colnect website catalog.

The set of dogs shown on the WNS site are not shown on the Colnect website catalog because they are not listed in any catalog.

Other Illegal Stamps Found Not Described in The Benin 2004 Circular

The massive production and proliferation of illegal stamps started in this year. Following are a few images of color proof sets that again show evidence that Clive Feigenbaum and the British counterfeit producer were the ones behind the production of the earlier illegal stamps for Benin. All of the images can only be found on the original Stampdile database and have and are only offered for sale by that company and associates showing exclusive responsibility for the production of the illegal stamps. All the illegal stamps that were described in the circular can be found on the beginning pages of this section.

There are many more of these fake color proofs sets shown in that database than I show here.

2002 Elvis Presley Walt Disney Sheetlet of Six Color Proof Set


2002 Marilyn Monroe Walt Disney Souvenir Sheetlet of Six Color Proof Set


2002 Elvis Presley Walt Disney Souvenir Sheet Color Proof Set


2002 Chess with Scouting Emblem Souvenir Sheet Color Proof Set


MORE ILLEGAL STAMPS NOT DISCOVERED BY BENIN FOR 2002

2002 Marilyn Monroe Sheets of 9



2002 Minerals Sheet of 9


2002 Mushrooms Sheet of 9


2002 Parrots From Souvenir Sheet of 6


2002 Trains and Locomotives Sheet of 9


In 2003 as the first pages of this section on Benin show, the massive production of illegal stamps continues.

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References taken from:
U.P.U. Circular No. 30
WNS Website
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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