BENIN ILLEGAL STAMPS
2009

Information and Reference of Illegal Stamps for Benin Created in 2009

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.

2009

In 2009 Benin did not have any new official stamp issues made according to the WNS system.

The Colnect online catalog is in complete conflict with this.
70 Surcharged and overprinted stamps and varieties can be found on the Colnect online catalog but are not listed in the Scott catalog. They show Michel and/or Yvert numbers. The WNS system has no official issues listed from 2006 through 2009. Why these issues are not there is a question that needs to be answered.

So you can see that this confusion really needs to be dealt with by all catalog editors.

Still as you can see the illegal stamps look nothing like them.

Following are images of the illegal stamps I have found offered for Benin dating 2009. 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 2009 the production of illegal stamps in the name of Benin continued noting a few less were produced in this year.

2009 American Presidents in Sheetlets of 9




2009 Betty Boop in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2009 Butterflies and Mushrooms in Souvenir Sheets of 4



2009 Butterflies and Mushrooms in Deluxe Souvenir Sheets of 1



2009 Butterflies and Mushrooms in Illegal Stamp Deluxe Souvenir Sheet Fake Color Proofs



2009 Butterflies and Olympics (2012) in Deluxe Souvenir Sheet of 1



2009 Butterflies and Olympics (2012) in Illegal Stamp Deluxe Souvenir Sheet Fake Color Proofs



2009 Concorde in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2009 Dalmations in Souvenir Sheets of 4



2009 Dalmations in Deluxe Souvenir Sheet of 1



2009 Dalmations in Illegal Stamp Deluxe Souvenir Sheet Fake Color Proofs



2009 Disney Mickey Mouse in Souvenir Sheets of 4



2009 Elvis Presley in Sheetlet of 9



FAMOUS PEOPLE

Recently I found a seller on eBay with user name kleo53 located in Estonia offering a ton of Famous People illegal stamps. This seller appears to have exclusive ownership of several sets dating 2009. See my Ivory Coast 2009 page to see a monstrously large set of them exclusively being sold by this user.
It appears to be the same case for the following group. They were obviously from souvenir sheets or sheets that exist or existed at one time. The seller does not use the country of origin names in their listings of counterfeit stamps to avoid detection. Preying on the topical and memorabilia collectors for years this user is now.....discovered. I will display the following group of counterfeit Famous People stamps using the sellers own tactics to optimize awareness to the public. Thanks for all the images kleo!

2009 Famous People Alexandra Hay Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Amber Benson Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Anita Page Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Anita Stewart Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Ann Sheridan and Kent Smith Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Anna Sten and Gary Cooper Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Anne Lee Patterson Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Betty Furness and John Payne Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Bruce Willis Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Calista Flockhart Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Debra Paget Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Donna Mills Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Elizabeth Taylor Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Elvis Presley Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Genevieve Page Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Geri Halliwell Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Janis Paige Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People John Saxon Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Johnny Depp Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Julia Ormond Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Julia Roberts Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Julie Benz Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Kate Hudson Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Kathryn Perry Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Kim Delaney Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Kristanna Loken Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Madonna Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Marie Curie Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Michael Jackson Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Natalie Imbruglia Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Ron Randell Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Rosanna Podesta Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Russell Crowe Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Sara Paxton Counterfeit Illegal Stamps



2009 Famous People Vanessa Paradis Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



2009 Famous People Vin Diesel Counterfeit Illegal Stamp



A new style emerges. The first "Russian production" attack....

2009 Fish in Souvenir Sheets of 2




2009 Kennedy in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2009 Lightning McQueen Cars in Souvenir Sheets of 4



2009 Michael Jackson in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2009 Olympic Games Whinnie the Pooh in Sheetlet of 9



2009 Olympic Games Whinnie the Pooh in Deluxe Souvenir Sheets of 1



2009 Olympic Games Whinnie the Pooh in Souvenir Sheets of 4



2009 Olympic Games Disney Cartoons in Sheetlets of 9



2009 Princess Diana in Souvenir Sheets of 4



2009 Scouts in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2009 Space Apollo 11 in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2009 The Beatles in Sheetlet of 9



2009 The Beatles in Sheetlet of 6



2009 Trains in Souvenir Sheet of 4



In 2010 production of illegal stamps in the name of Benin slowed considerably. A new producer was on the market.

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References taken from:
WNS Website
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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