IVORY COAST ILLEGAL STAMPS
2017
Cote d'Ivoire

Information and Reference of Illegal Stamps for the Ivory Coast Created in 2017

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.

2017

In 2017 the production and sales of illegal stamps in the name of Cote d'Ivoire continue unhindered.

In 2017 Ivory Coast officially issued 8 different stamp issues.

Ivory Coast 2017 Francophonie Games
Issued July 21, 2017 Printer is Cartor


Ivory Coast 2017 Inauguration of the Soubre Hydroelectric Dam
Issued November 2, 2017 Printer is Cartor


Following are images of the illegal stamps I have found offered for the Ivory coast dating 2017. 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!

From 2016 to present day we can see there are 4 main sellers of the newest illegal stamps on eBay. All are "big" dealers. Because of the fact that now (2018) these dealers are offering the latest and "greatest" illegal stamps for the Ivory Coast, it shows collaboration with or evidence that they are directly connected with the producers or are the producers themselves. They are:

snowflower2008
eren3049
marlen-stamps
europolstamps

Now we add the Russian based user that was outside the group and a competitor to them.

kir30kirill (Topnimarka.com account closed....good!)

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

2017 Aerosmith Rock Band Steven Tyler in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2017 Aerosmith Rock Band Steven Tyler in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Aerosmith Rock Band Steven Tyler in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Anniversaries Death of Nicolas Roerich in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Anniversaries Death of Nicolas Roerich in Souvenir Sheet of 1

Note the "Hanmart" watermark is not part of the stamp vignette. Just another dealer to avoid until they stop offering illegal stamps. "Big" stamp dealers like these like to "play dumb" in regards to illegal stamps. I can assure you that in most cases they know exactly what they are trying to rip you off for!



2017 Anniversaries Birth of Constantin Tsiolkovski in Souvenir Sheet of 4



Following is a "series" of illegal stamps of paintings by famous artists.

2017 Art Paintings Albrecht Altdorfer in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Batolome Bermejo in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Hieronymus Bosch in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Jean Clouet in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Albrecht Durer in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings El Greco in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Jan van Eyck in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Hugo van der Goes in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Nicholas Hilliard in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Pontormo in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Raphael in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Tintoretto in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Titian in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Paolo Veronese in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Art Paintings Leonard de Vinci in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Battle of Stalingrad in Souvenir Sheet of 4

Here we have our Russian produced illegal stamps sold mainly by Eastern European and Russia based sellers.
Why would anyone in the Ivory coast be remotely interested in this???



2017 Battle of Stalingrad in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Battle Ships Russian in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Battle Ships Russian in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Birds and Tigers Red Book of Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Birds and Tigers Red Book of Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Butterflies in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Butterflies in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Cars and Famous Personalities in Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Cars and Famous Personalities in Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Cats in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Cats in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Chess Magnus Carlsen in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Chess Magnus Carlsen in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Circus Great Circuses of the World in Souvenir Sheet of 4

Russian Made Counterfeit Illegal Stamps being pushed by this Topnimarka.com. We discovered recently that this criminal producer is printing counterfeit stamps and "back dating" them. This set was printed in 2020 and back dated 2017.



2017 Circus Great Circuses of the World in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Circus Great Circuses of the World in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Faberge Eggs in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Faberge Eggs in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Ferrari in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2017 Ferrari in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Ferrari in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Great British Scientists in Souvenir Sheets of 2



2017 Great French Scientists in Souvenir Sheets of 2



2017 Great German Scientists in Souvenir Sheets of 2



2017 Lighthouses in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Lighthouses in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Lighthouses Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Lighthouses Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Minerals in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Minerals in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Mushrooms Toxic in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Mushrooms Toxic in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 October Revolution Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 October Revolution Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Owls in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Owls in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Pandas in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Pandas in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Parrots in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Parrots in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Polar Ships Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Polar Ships Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Protestant Reformation in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Protestant Reformation in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Protestant Reformation Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheets on Fake First Day Covers

Here are examples of more fake First Day Covers. There are tons of them with these later illegal stamp issues. They are worthless....



2017 Qi Baishi in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Qi Baishi in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Rhinos in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Rhinos in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Scouting Scoutism in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Scouting Scoutism in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Seals in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Seals in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Sharks in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Sharks in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 World Cup Soccer (Football) Stadiums in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2017 World Cup Soccer (Football) Stadiums in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 World Cup Soccer (Football) Stadiums in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 World Cup Soccer (Football) Stadiums (Different) in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2017 World Cup Soccer (Football) Stadiums (Different) in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 World Cup Soccer (Football) Stadiums (Different) in Souvenir Sheets of 1



Here is another onslaught of fake space related junk by these illegal stamp producers.

2017 Space Carl Sagan in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Space Carl Sagan in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Space Dogs in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Space Dogs in Souvenir Sheets of 1



A new style emerges.....

2017 Space Grace in Souvenir Sheets of 2



2017 Space Grace in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Space Pioneers in Souvenir Sheets of 2



2017 Space Program Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Space Program Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Space Sputnik 1 Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Space Sputnik 2 Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Space Sputnik 2 Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 1



So are the rat illegal stamp producers working together or what???

2017 Space Sputnik 1 in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Space Sputnik 1 in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Space Valentina Tereshkova Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Space Valentina Tereshkova Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Space X in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Space X in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Tigers in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Tigers in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Trains in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Trains in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 Turtles in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Turtles in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Winter Olympics PyeongChang 2018 in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2017 Winter Olympics PyeongChang 2018 in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Winter Olympics PyeongChang 2018 in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2017 World Cup Soccer Russia in Souvenir Sheet of 4



2017 Year of the Dog in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Year of the Dog in Souvenir Sheet of 1



2017 Zebras in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2017 Zebras in Souvenir Sheet of 1



In 2018 production of illegal stamps continues at a steady pace. You can see how sophisticated the fake stamps have become in recent times.

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References taken from:
WNS Website
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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