IVORY COAST ILLEGAL STAMPS
2019
Cote d'Ivoire

Information and Reference of Illegal Stamps for the Ivory Coast Created in 2018

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.

2019

In 2019 the production and sales of illegal stamps in the name of Cote d'Ivoire continues It appears to have slowed on the "British end" Possibly because the heat is on due to my work with various managements and associations.

At present (November 2019) the Ivory Coast has not registered any new stamp issues on the WNS system. I will update this page if status changes.

Following are images of the illegal stamps I have found offered for the Ivory coast dating 2019. 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!

Presently I have seen a change on eBay and Delcampe this year. No bold listings in the Ivory Coast categories of new illegal stamps! Earlier in the year the below named users were listing boldly by the country name and the year. It appears one can make effect on this criminal market. I am certain these people are wondering what will be attacked next.... Users on eBay (who still are selling many counterfeit stamps in the name of other countries) but are avoiding this one at present. snowflower2008
eren3049
marlen-stamps
mapka666
europolstamps
globalphila

The Russian dealer was still going at it thinking he was safe by not listing the counterfeit stamps by the country name. He got a rude awakening. We retained a ton of data on his doings and shut his freak account down!

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

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

Here is a new add-in I am making in 2020. Apparently globalphila has made a couple counterfeits for this year and is trying to move them on eBay through their criminal account and their distributor marlen-stamps. We are going to take this worm out very soon.

2019 Apollo 11 Moonlanding in Souvenir Sheets of 1

globalphila produced/distributed counterfeit illegal stamps.



2019 Apollo Soyuz in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2019 Apollo Soyuz in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2019 Chess in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2019 Chess in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2019 Chess in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2019 Great Travelers Captain James Cook in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2019 Great Travelers Captain James Cook in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2019 Great Travelers Captain James Cook in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2019 Mother Teresa in Souvenir Sheet of 4

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



2019 Mother Teresa in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2019 Mother Teresa in Souvenir Sheets of 1



2019 Rugby in Souvenir Sheet of 4

I do not understand why the title "Racing 92" is on these.

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



2019 Rugby in Souvenir Sheet of 2



2019 Year of the Rat (2020) in Souvenir Sheet of 2

globalphila produced/distributed counterfeit illegal stamps. This one really says it all.



2019 Year of the Rat (2020) in Souvenir Sheet of 1



The two above named producers/distributors and anyone else who is involved with them or this kind of activity need to be taken out by the victimized countries and the UPU in force. It is obvious and in your face as to who they are and what they have been doing for years. The evidence against these people is mountainous in size. There is no way they can get out of being prosecuted to the utmost extent. The countries just have to take that first legal step....

To be continued? We shall see.

References taken from:
WNS Website
Major Stamp Catalogs
Internet Research

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