IVORY COAST ILLEGAL STAMPS
2015
Cote d'Ivoire

Information and Reference of Illegal Stamps for the Ivory Coast Created in 2015

The following images are of illegal stamps produced for the Ivory Coast. 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 verify what stamps are real and legitimate for the Ivory coast visit the UPU WNS website and look at the Cote d'Ivoire section.

The Universal Postal Union WNS website

I have found the Colnect online catalog to be very helpful.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Ivory Coast

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 Ivory Coast Illegal Stamps

I have found the Stampworld.com Catalog to be very helpful as well.

The Stampworld Online Catalog for Ivory Coast

According to the postal administration for the Ivory Coast all officially issued stamps for the Ivory Coast starting in 2002 are listed on the WNS website and are updated to the present time. This means that if the stamp is not listed on the WNS system that it is an illegal stamp. There is no argument against this that can be made. If you have an argument against any of the following determined illegal stamp issues as to their validity, then take it up with the Ivory Coast postal administration. You will find...you cannot win. 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 the Ivory Coast produced circular 63 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.

2015

In 2015 the stamp agency Stamperija contract was ended with the Ivory Coast. Production of counterfeit illegal stamps remained silent in this year on the British end. I have discovered recently (2019) that the Russian producer did make a few sets of counterfeits in the name of Cote d'Ivoire in this year.
In 2015 the Ivory Coast returned to its more conservative stamp issuing policy.

In 2015 Ivory Coast officially issued 3 different stamp issues.

Ivory Coast 2015 40th Anniversary of Economic Community of West Africa ECOWAS Scott 1246
Issued May 28, 2015 Printer is Cartor
The Scott listing dates the first day of issue on December 17, 2015. Who is right?.


Ivory Coast 2015 UPU Strategic Conference Geneva 2015 - 1st Post Office of Grand-Bassam Scott 1244-1245
Issued August 27, 2015 Printer is Imprimerie de la Poste Tunisienne


Following are images of the only verified illegal stamps I have found offered for the Ivory coast dating 2015. There are probably more. These I found in searches on eBay and Delcampe and all are illegal stamps made by producers bent on ripping you off!

2015 Circus Dogs in Souvenir Sheet of 4

Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com.



2015 Circus Dogs in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2015 Ice Hockey in Souvenir Sheet of 4

Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com.



2015 Ice Hockey in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2015 Sailing Ships Sir Francis Drake in Souvenir Sheet of 3

Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this kir30kirill aka Topnimarka.com.



2015 Sailing Ships Sir Francis Drake in Souvenir Sheet of 2



And that is all I could find dating 2015!

In 2016 production of illegal stamps returns with a vengeance! Why?? Revenge??

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References taken from:
WNS Website
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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