KOSOVO ILLEGAL STAMPS
KOSOVA ILLEGAL STAMPS
1999

Information and Reference of illegal stamps for Kosovo dating 1999

In 1999 the real nightmare begins for stamp collectors and dealers as the British producer floods the stamp market with counterfeit illegal stamps in the name of many countries. This effected Kosovo as well.

I have found that Kosovo is apparently not a member of the UPU. Thus they are not a member of the WNS System so you will not find any stamps issued by Kosovo there nor are there any UPU circulars on the problem for this country. To find out what stamps are real and legitimate for Kosovo visit their philatelic website here. All of the issued stamps are shown there.

The Kosovo Post website

I have found the Colnect online catalog to be very helpful and will give you a much clearer picture of what stamps are real.

The Colnect Online Catalog for Kosovo

Some of the illegal stamps are shown in their Cinderella section and noted as such. Still nothing close to what is out there as you will see.

The Colnect Online Catalog Illegal Stamp Section for Kosovo

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

The Stampworld Online Catalog for Kosovo

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 (2022) 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", "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.

1999

In 1999 the British producer and his "buddies" create a mass of counterfeits in the name of Kosovo. All of them are inscribed Kosova. A major production was done creating perforated, and imperforate varieties including color proof sets! All of them are counterfeit illegal stamps. Quite simply put, Kosovo did not issue any stamps until the year 2000. And that was only one set of 5 stamps. Yet here we have a mass of counterfeits as displayed below.

1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Bear and Squirrel EUROPA Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Pair

This set and many others below is being extensively sold on the stamp venues. Avoid!



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Bear and Squirrel EUROPA Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 16



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Birds Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strip of 4

The strips like these come from panes having different topics on each strip. I could not find full panes of them.



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Butterflies Mushrooms Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strips of 4 Pane Example

Here is an example of a part pane showing how the strips of 4 were originally made.



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Butterflies Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strip of 4



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Cats Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strip of 4



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Celebrities and Maps Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6

This is from a set of these style of souvenir sheets.



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Diana Royalty and Maps Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Princess Diana Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strip of 4



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Dinosaurs Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strip of 4



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Dogs Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strip of 4



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Dogs Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strips of 4 Color Proof Set



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova EUROPE 50 Years of NATO Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheets of 16

Contains topics like Bill Clinton, Pope, Leaders, Fire fighting, Helicopters.

Sheet 1


Sheet 2


1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Minerals Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strip of 4



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Mushrooms Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Strip of 4



Here are more counterfeit overprints on Yugoslavian stamps. Noting all are again on the cheapest Yugoslavian stamps you can buy.

1999 Kosovo is Serbian Counterfeit Overprints on Yugoslavia Defeat of the Serbians Stamp made in 1989



1999 Kosovo Serbian Post Office Counterfeit Overprints on Yugoslavia Serbian Migration Stamps made in 1990

There has been no Serbian post office since 1920.



1999 Kosovo Klinton Counterfeit Overprints on Yugoslavia Definitive Stamps made in 1992-3

The criminal producer cannot even get the name spelled right because the British producer has a serious language spelling problem. These are overprints celebrating president Bill Clinton's visit to Kosovo in 1999. These counterfeits were made in a hurry to scoop up money from unsuspecting collectors at the time. Most assured they were selling them in stamp exhibitions at the time along with hundreds of other counterfeit stamps.



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Pope and Maps Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Pope and Maps Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6 Bulk Lot

Here is an example of a bulk lot sold by the notorious illegal stamp dealer stamp4all on eBay. It sold for 99c!



1999 Kosovo Inscribed Kosova Train de Gaulle and Maps Counterfeit Illegal Stamp Souvenir Sheet of 6



In 2000 the British producer gets worse creating another massive stock of counterfeit stamps in the name of Kosovo.
Also another counterfeit producer gets involved.

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