CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC ILLEGAL STAMPS
2003

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Congo Democratic Republic

The following images are of illegal stamps produced for Congo Democratic Republic. 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.

At the time of creating the pages for Congo Democratic Republic I have found the WNS system to be completely unreliable as a source because only two stamps are listed on the site for 2002 and then.....nothing.

The Universal Postal Union WNS website

I have found the Colnect online catalog to be helpful although there are "conflicts" between what is listed there and what is on the Stampworld Catalog. I consider Colnect to be the most reliable online source at this time.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Congo Democratic Republic

Check out their Illegal Stamp section as well. It is upgraded as of 2023 and shows counterfeits that may be missing here.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Congo Democratic Republic Illegal Stamps

I have found the Stampworld.com Catalog to be helpful as well although again as stated there are "conflicts". They list stamps that are described as illegal stamps by the 1997 circular simply because Michel catalog (known to be influenced by dealers) is listing them.

The Stampworld Online Catalog for Congo Democratic Republic

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.

You will find the styles and designs of the following illegal stamps completely different.

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.

Sellers that call these "private", "locals", "cinderellas", "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.

2003

In 2003 the production of counterfeit illegal stamps continues in at a monstrous rate. The majority being produced by our favorite UK based stamp dealers.

In 2003 Impressor S.A. continues to produce abusive issues in the name of the Congo Democratic Republic. Again a massive number of topical based issues are produced by this agency in an abusive fashion. The majority of the Impressor S.A. issues never were even used in the Congo. They were produced and sold through affiliated dealers to mainly topical collectors.

The Scott catalog does not list any issues because they have no valid proof of any postal usage within the country. Scott catalog notes that these issues and the later stamps dating 2002 through 2012 were never available in the country and are therefore not listed.

The abusive stamps are listed in the Michel catalog due to influence by the agency to get them listed there. We can see by the massive availability on the market of these issues that Impressor S.A. overproduced the stamps simply to sell to non savvy collectors of topics. There are probably hundreds of thousands of each issue made as the market shows. Some of the dealers are holding stocks of the stamps numbering in the thousands. In a sense of rarity, there is none, so any seller claiming they are rare.... is lying to you.

The Colnect catalog list some of them but nothing in comparison to what was produced. The Stampworld catalog lists the majority of them. The styles of the abusive issues are the same in most cases and are therefore fairly easy to recognize. They are similar to the styles of illegal stamps and carry the same topics which have nothing to do with the country of origin. Because none were ever sent to the country nor used there it is my opinion that they are valueless pieces of paper made by unscrupulous people intent on gaining easy profits by breaking just about every U.P.U. rule for philatelic best practices.

I wish to note that several "styles" of the souvenir sheets produced by Impressor in this year have an uncanny almost exact style as more recent illegal stamps for other countries.

Following are images of the illegal stamps I have found offered for Congo Democratic Republic dating 2003. 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!

Anyone who wishes to contest this is welcome to show proof that the stamps are genuine issued stamps and this page can be updated to show it. At this time no catalog lists them.

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

2003 Airplanes and Fighter Jets Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Birds Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Brigitte Bardot Souvenir Sheet of 1



2003 Butterflies Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Celebrity Actresses Single Stamps

I note these single illegal stamps in this image are being exclusively offered by the user on eBay named kleo53 located in Estonia for years and appears to be exclusively controlled by the dealer. At least until now this means the dealer owns the complete stock of them. At the time of discovery I could not find anyone else offering even one of them.



2003 Celebrity Actresses History of Cinema Sheets of 9



2003 Celebrity Actresses Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Celebrity Actresses Souvenir Sheets of 1



2003 Chess Gold Foil Souvenir Sheets of 2

Although these look like Impressor gold foil souvenir sheets they are not even the abusive issues. Note the values. They use "CF" rather than "FC". As we have found that Impressor has made illegal stamps....these are as such. Not listed in any catalog.



2003 Dinosaurs Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Dogs Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Dolphins Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Elephants Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Elvis Presley Gold Foil Souvenir Sheet of 2

More fake gold foil stamps.



2003 Ferrari Gold Foil Souvenir Sheet of 2

Yet More fake gold foil stamps. Prove me wrong!



2003 Fire Engines Sheet of 9



2003 Firefighters of France Sheet of 9



2003 Firefighters of France Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Formula I Ferrari Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Giraffes Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Golf Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Harry Potter Sheet of 9



2003 Harry Potter Souvenir Sheet of 2



2003 Helmut Newton Tribute Sheet of 9



Following a large number of History of Cinema counterfeit stamps.

2003 History of Cinema Sheets of 9






2003 History of Cinema Brigitte Bardot Sheet of 9



2003 History of Cinema Bruce Lee Sheet of 9



2003 History of Cinema Marilyn Monroe Souvenir Sheets of 1



2003 History of Cinema Marlene Dietrich Sheet of 9 and Souvenir Sheet of 1



Now a plague of James Bond counterfeit illegal stamps.

2003 James Bond Souvenir Sheets of 1







2003 Japanese Actresses History of Cinema Sheet of 9



2003 Japanese Actresses Souvenir Sheets of 1



2003 John Lennon and Yoko Ono Sheet of 9



2003 Kill Bill O-ren Ishii Sheet of 9



2003 Lighthouses Gold Foil Souvenir Sheets of 2



2003 Looney Tunes Cartoons Souvenir Sheets of 8



2003 Lord of the Rings Sheets of 9

Note the boldly place "DECIMAVILLA" logo. This user has been using different user names on the auction venues for many years. Constantly kicked out for selling counterfeit stamps and simply returns under a different user name. If you see this logo on any sellers images....run away from that seller!



2003 Lord of the Rings Souvenir Sheet of 2



2003 Madonna Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Marilyn Monroe Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Marilyn Monroe Souvenir Sheets of 1



2003 Marilyn Monroe Gold Foil Souvenir Sheets of 2



2003 Masonic Members Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Motorcycles Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Motorcycles Souvenir Sheets of 4



2003 Orchids Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Owls Souvenir Sheets of 6



Now a flurry of paintings. More than likely I have not found all of them....

2003 Paintings Boris Vallejo Souvenir Sheets of 1



2003 Paintings Dorian Cleavenger Souvenir Sheet of 8



2003 Paintings Dorian Cleavenger Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Paintings Dorian Cleavenger Souvenir Sheets of 1



2003 Paintings Edgar Degas Souvenir Sheet of 1



2003 Paintings Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Souvenir Sheet of 1



2003 Paintings Luis Royo Souvenir Sheet of 1



2003 Paintings Michelangelo Souvenir Sheet of 8



2003 Paintings Michelangelo Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Paintings Paul Cezanne Souvenir Sheet of 1



2003 Paintings Tintoretto Souvenir Sheet of 1



2003 Parrots Sheet of 9



2003 Parrots Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Parrots Souvenir Sheet of 1



2003 Penguins Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Polar Bears Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Pope John Paul II and Paintings of Madonna and Child Sheet of 12



2003 Pope John Paul II and Paintings of Madonna and Child Souvenir Sheets of 1



2003 Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa Souvenir Sheet of 2



2003 The Great Pyramid and Sphinx Souvenir Sheet of 6



2003 Pyramids Souvenir Sheet of 2



2003 Remember September 11th Sheet of 9

These criminal counterfeit stamp dealers will use your emotions any way they can to rip you off! Any stamp dealer who would offer this counterfeit sheet should be completely shunned by everyone.



2003 Scouts Mushrooms and Owls Gold Foil Souvenir Sheets of 2



2003 Scouts Mushrooms and Owls Gold Foil Souvenir Sheet of 2 on Fake First Day Cover

These criminals go to great lengths to deceive you into thinking the counterfeit stamps are real. There never was a "first day of issue" for these. The cover, the stamps and the cancels are all bogus!



2003 South Park Souvenir Sheets of 8



2003 Space Astronaut Yang Liwei Gold Foil Souvenir Sheets of 2



2003 The Beatles Souvenir Sheet of 4



2003 The Rolling Stones Sheet of 9



2003 Trains Souvenir Sheets of 6



2003 Trains Maglev Souvenir Sheet of 4



2003 Trains Gold Foil Souvenir Sheets of 2



2003 Whales Souvenir Sheets of 6



In 2004 the production of counterfeit illegal stamps in the name of Congo Democratic Republic continues and it does not slow down!

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