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Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Benin according to U.P.U. Circular 30

You can view circular 30 in PDF form by clicking on this link.

UPU Circular Number 30

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

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

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

Here we go!

All imaged illegals are in the order listed in UPU Circular 30 page 18 through 21.

Many of the following illegal stamps can be found as imperforates and as color proof sets as well.
Most times now (2016) 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.

Vehicles – transport (aircraft, motorcycles, trains and cars)

AIRCRAFT

2003 Air Force 100 Years of Aviation Sheetlets of Six

I could only get one good image of one of the sheetlets. The tiny image below it is the other sheetlet.



2003 100 Years of Aviation and Rotary International Souvenir Sheets



2003 Fighter Planes Souvenir Sheetlet of Three

MOTORCYCLES

2002 Motorcycle Racing and 2003 Motorcycle Racing with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheetlets of Six

Here I could only get good images of the the two Racing souvenir sheetlets without the Rotary Emblem. The souvenir sheetlet with the Rotary Emblem is being sold at another site with only the tiny image shown.

TRAINS AND LOCOMOTIVES

2003 Modern Trains with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheets

Here again I could only get a good image of one of souvenir sheets. The other is a small image as before.



2002 Trains (Portraits de Locomotives) with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheet



2003 Modern Trains Souvenir Sheetlet of Three



2002 Trains with Rotary International Emblem and 2003 Steam Trains Souvenir Sheetlets of Six

Here again I could only get a good image of one of souvenir sheets. The 2002 Rotary sheetlet is a small image as before.



2003 Classic Locomotives Sheetlet of Six



2003 Trains (Portraits de Locomotives) with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheetlet of Six



2003 Trains (Les Locomotives) with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheetlet of Six



2003 Trains in Stations with Rotary International Emblem Sheetlet of Nine



2003 Trains with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheetlets of Six

CARS

2002 Ferrari Racing Cars Souvenir Sheetlet of Six



2003 Ferrari Racing Cars with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheetlet of Six



2003 Classic Automobiles Sheetlet of Six

There is a typo error in the UPU circular for this one. It states the date being 2002. It is 2003. The rest of the description is correct.



2003 Modern Cars with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheets



2003 Modern Cars Sheetlet of Three

FIRE ENGINES

2003 Firemen Fire Brigades of France Sheetlet of Twelve



2003 Fire Engines (Les voitures d’incendie) Souvenir Sheetlets of Six



2003 Firemen Red Cross with Rotary International Emblem Souvenir Sheet



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

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